Features
What you are getting with YouTube Downloader HD:
- Easy tool to download your YouTube videos: just copy the URL of the video and click to download
- Download videos in 4K Ultra HD, 2K Quad HD, Full HD quality and many more
- Option to convert the downloaded videos to MP4 format
- Realy Fast multi-threaded download for big videos
- Queued downloads from the list, Option to Download entire Playlist from YouTube
- Compatible with Windows 7/8/10/11
- Support for older OS: Windows XP/Vista 32/64 (please, download special XP/Vista release)
What's new in latest versions of YouTube Downloader HD:
- [December 18, 2024] v.5.9.2
- Another hotfix for Downloader
- [December 17+, 2024] v.5.9.1
- Hotfix for Error 12029 (Only Required for Windows 7/8 Users)
- [December 17, 2024] v.5.9
- New settings menu for convenience
- Option to select the language of the audio track (via settings). The default language is English
- Fixed some bugs
- [December 11, 2024] v.5.8.4
- Fix for error "Invalid character (&)" (Thanks to everyone who reported the problem!)
- Fixed a bug with no sound in some downloaded videos (Thanks to Manu for reporting!)
- [December 9, 2024] v.5.8.3
- Fixing download bugs.
- [August 14, 2024] v.5.8.2
- Fixing recent download errors
- [July 30, 2024] v.5.8.1
- Trying to fix 4K video download error
- [July 26, 2024] v.5.8
- Trying to fix Error: "Can't retrieve formats" (Many thanks to the numerous users who helped to understand the problem!)
- [July 24, 2024] v.5.7.2
- Trying to fix problem with Windows antiviral tool
- Trying to fix Windows error "Access violation"
- [July 16, 2024] v.5.7.1
- Fix for non-English characters in video titles
- Fix for error while downloading some videos
- Also this release tries to fix Windows error "Access violation at addresss 00707E8E"
- [July 10, 2024] v.5.7
- Fix for download videos from Youtube
- [July 4, 2024] v.5.6
- Another try to fix the download of all video resolutions Please check.
- [July 1, 2024] v.5.5
- Fix for download videos from Youtube Please note: This is a temporary solution. 4K and 60FPS videos are still not available. Please be patient as I work on this issue. Thanks to everyone who reported the problem!
- [November 16, 2023] v.5.4.3
- Download audio track with default language [for multilingual videos] (reported by David W.). In future versions it will be possible to select an audio track.
- Option to download 144p videos (requested by Alan)
- [October 18, 2023] v.5.4.2
- The "Download entire playlist" option is now remembered when the program is turned off (requested by Paul H.)
- Fix for download 720p videos in 30fps
- Option to Stay on top of the other programs (requested by Andre L.)
- [September 17, 2023] v.5.4.1
- Option to choose whether or not to download the entire playlist (requested by many users)
- [August 25, 2023] v.5.4
- Bug fix: Unable to extract video info
- Bug fix: "temp" video title
- [July 10, 2023] v.5.3.1
- Another slow download fix
- Increase the maximum number of download threads to 64
- [June 29, 2023] v.5.3
- Troubleshoot slow download issue (thanks to the many users who reported the issue!)
- [June 15, 2023] v.5.2.1
- Small bugfixes
- [May 10, 2023] v.5.2 Playlists!
- Finally the Playlist Download is available with Youtube Downloader HD. Just add a playlist URL instead of a video URL and click "Add to Download Queue". This also works with video URL containing a "list" parameter.
- Small bug fixes
- [March 25, 2023] v.5.1 High Speed Edition
- Significant increase in download speed for large videos (thanks to Dharam for help)
- Bug fix: "The URL column can't be stretched" (thanks Ray for reporting the issue)
- [February 25, 2023] v.5.0.1
- Increase in the amount of downloading threads by default.
- [February 21, 2023] v.5.0 Major Release!
- Multi-threaded download is here! I hope the problems with
slow downloads are over :)
You can choose how many threads to use for downloading - from 1 to 32. This long awaited feature is currently in beta. So don't go crazy guys, increase the number of threads gradually. - Auto restart for failed download streams
- Displaying the current speed in multi-threaded mode
- If you have problem with the new download mode, You can choose the old one by selecting 1 thread option
- Multi-threaded download is here! I hope the problems with
slow downloads are over :)
- [December 24, 2022] v.4.4.3 Merry Xmas
- Added the ability to add videos to the queue while downloading.
- [August 22, 2022] v.4.4.2
- Bringing back the priority of mp4 format over webm
- [August 17, 2022] v.4.4.1
- Small improvements
- [August 4, 2022] v.4.4
- Added support for downloading YouTube shorts.
Requested by Steve R. and Saarang P.
- Added support for downloading YouTube shorts.
- [April 18, 2022] v.4.3.3
- Download speed fix
- [March 17, 2022] v.4.3.1
- A few little improvements and bug fixes
- [February 3, 2022] v.4.3
- Bug fix for error "Can't retrieve youtube video. Try another resolution"
Thanks to all users for reporting!
- Bug fix for error "Can't retrieve youtube video. Try another resolution"
- [December 3, 2021] v.4.2.1
- New feature: Adding multiple URLs from the text file.
You can now add a bunch of videos to the download list at once instead of adding them one at a time. Just create a txt file and add URLs (one URL per line).
Requested by Jack L. - Better usability: New items "Copy URL" and "Copy Video Title" in the right-click menu of
the video list.
Requested by Ray - Fix for better usability: Clear Video URL field after adding to list
Requested by Max - Bug fix: Incorrect numbering in the video list after user manipulation
- New feature: Adding multiple URLs from the text file.
- [October 15, 2021] v.4.2
- Low speed issue finally resolved! Thank you all for your patience :)
- [September 23, 2021] v.4.1
- Usability feature: contextual menu with several options for removing items from the download list. Also you can still use Del key to delete selected item.
- Bug fix: Accidentally adding duplicate items to the download queue.
- Bug fix: The Stop function in the middle of the download queue caused the download of the following videos to continue.
- [July 19, 2021] v.4.0 Major Release!
- Major release! Long awaited addition: the Download queue
- [June 3, 2021] v.3.5.3
- Fixes for better usability: reverted to the user-set quality if download lower
resolution
Thanks to all users who noticed this inconvenience.
- Fixes for better usability: reverted to the user-set quality if download lower
resolution
- [April 3, 2021] v.3.5.2
- Bug fix: download error 'Unable to extract video info'
Thanks to all users who helped to sort out the problem!
- Bug fix: download error 'Unable to extract video info'
- [March 17, 2021] v.3.5
- New feature: automatic download of video in a different resolution if the current one is not available
- New feature: separate download for 720p 30 FPS and 720p 60 FPS videos
- [February 25, 2021] v.3.4.1
- Minor bug fix: showing 99% download even though the video is fully downloaded.
- [January 22, 2021] v.3.4
- Bug fix: problem with downloading big files (over 2GB). Thanks to all users, who reported about this bug
- [December 23, 2020] v.3.3.1
- Bug fix: problem with some URLs
- [December 7, 2020] v.3.3
- New option: now you can download 4K, 1440p or 720p video in 30 or 60FPS (if available)
- Bug fix: problem with downloading large files
- Bug fix: rename files on collision
- [November 27, 2020] v.3.2
- Bug fix: Can't Find YTPlayer
- [November 26, 2020] v.3.1
- Minor bug fixes
- [October 27, 2020] v.3.0.2
- Bug fix: "Unable to download" and "Can't find js player"
- [October 9, 2020] v.3.0 Major Release!
- Added alot of options and video resolutions (4K Ultra HD, Quad HD!)
- [July 27, 2020] v.2.9.9.76
- New feature: name of the resolution was added to video file name
- [July 10, 2020] v.2.9.9.75
- Bug fix: a bug with special characters in video title
- [July 9, 2020] v.2.9.9.74
- Bug fix: a bug with video Title
- [March 13, 2020] v.2.9.9.72
- New feature: The "Open" button now opens the folder with the recently downloaded file selected (thanks to Eliseu for idea)
- [February 4, 2020] v.2.9.9.71
- Bug fix: "Return" statement outside of function, Error 7
- [December 31, 2019] v.2.9.9.70 Happy Holidays!
- Bug fix: Download Error "Can't find URL file map"
- [December 5, 2019] v.2.9.9.69
- Improvement: increased download speed, now it's really fast