YouTube downloaderup to 4K

Download YouTube videos with the audio intact

What you get

1Streams merged for youVideo and audio recombined, so 4K never lands silent.

2Shorts stay vertical1080 × 1920 preserved — no centre crop, no bars.

3Sizes up frontEvery rung shows its size before you start.

4Audio on its ownTake just the soundtrack when that's all you need.

3 steps, no detours

Watch links and Shorts both work. Every resolution the uploader actually published, with video and audio merged into one file before it reaches you.

1Copy any YouTube URLWatch, youtu.be and Shorts links all resolve to the same video.

2Read the rung, not the labelSizes expose thin 4K encodes — often 1080p is the better file.

3Save with soundThe merge happens before delivery, so what you open plays complete.

YouTube questions

Why do some downloaders hand back a silent file?

Above 720p YouTube stores video and audio as separate streams. They have to be merged back together — we do that before the file is handed over, so nothing arrives silent.

Why is 4K missing on some videos?

YouTube only stores a 2160p rendition if the uploader supplied one. Where the source was 1080p, no tool anywhere can produce a real 4K file.

Do Shorts download as portrait?

They do. The file keeps the original vertical frame.

Is audio-only cheaper on mobile data?

Substantially — a 30-minute talk is roughly 60 MB as audio against around 900 MB at 1080p.

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About downloading from YouTube

YouTube's adaptive delivery is what makes its downloads unusual: above 720p the platform stores picture and sound as separate streams, and anything that fetches only the video track produces a file that plays in silence. Every video rung listed here is delivered merged.

Resolution rungs also differ per upload. An older upload may stop at 1080p while a recent one carries 4K. Because each rung shows its size, you can see when a 2160p encode is starved of bitrate and take the 1080p file instead.