YTubeGet

YTubeGet is a lightweight software application whose purpose is to help you download YouTube clips for offline viewing.

You need to have Adobe Flash Player and Microsoft .NET Framework in order to be able to make use of the program’s features on your computer.

The GUI looks straightforward and implements only a few configuration settings. A help manual cannot be found in the package but you can tweak the dedicated parameters on your own because they look easy to work with.

YTubeGet gives you the possibility to watch the videos from YouTube directly in the main window before downloading them. The utility does not offer support for an automatic clipboard monitoring mode, so you need to manually input the target URL.

You can make use of the same playback controls displayed in YouTube, namely play, pause, or stop the current selection, seek for a position in the video streams, and activate the full screen viewing mode.

Other important configuration options worth being mentioned enable you to pick the saving directory and select the preferred output format, namely FLV or MP4. What’s more, you are allowed to choose between several preset resolution profiles.

The application has not been updated for a long time so you can make use its capabilities especially on operating systems like Windows XP, Vista, and 7. During our tests YTubeGet failed repeatedly downloading some clips from YouTube.

To sum things up, YTubeGet delivers a simplistic approach for grabbing YouTube clips. It does not offer support for advanced features so you cannot convert the downloaded videos to AVI, MPG, and other file formats, and download multiple clips at the same time.