Cube YouTube Downloader

While online videos, and music clips are one-click away on YouTube, you might want to download your most favorite clips locally for offline viewing. The Internet does not lack video downloaders, some faster and more user-friendly than others.

If you are part of those for whom a standard user interface makes an application more accessible, then you most probably do not prefer console downloaders, such as youtube-dl or yt-dlp. While these two applications come with all the functions one needs to grab content from the Internet, the lack of a regular GUI might be a decisive drawback to some. Luckily, there are GUI wrappers out there and so it happens that Cube YouTube Downloader is a wrapper for both aforementioned console tools.

Cube YouTube Downloader requires no installation, but keep in mind that either youtube-dl or yt-dlp should be present on your system for the GUI wrapper to work. In fact, the first thing you need to do is navigate to the “Preferences” window to set the path of the backend app.

And speaking of the Preferences window, since you are already here, you can take the time to configure Cube YouTube Downloader before actually grabbing online videos. It is possible to add startup arguments and choose to update the backend application automatically. You can also point to the path of FFmpeg, which allows faster video conversions and extractions.

Jumping back to the main window, Cube YouTube Downloader requires you to type in or paste the link of the video to download. Unfortunately, there is no automatic clipboard monitoring, which is sometimes the case with such apps.

There are a few additional options to take into account. Cube YouTube Downloader allows you to grab the subtitles along with the main video and attach metadata information to it as well. Video thumbnails and even the entire playlist can be downloaded with this application. For your convenience, it comes with custom filename templates and prewritten arguments that you can apply before downloading.

Cube YouTube Downloader provides a simple GUI wrapper for youtube-dl and yt-dlp, delivering a more user-friendly tool for downloading online videos. It features basic download options and it comes with pretty simple options to customize the download process.