SharpGrabber Desktop

There are countless videos in the libraries of popular video-centered sites, such as YouTube and Vimeo, and it's not uncommon to like a clip so much that you want to download it. You never know whether it'll be taken down in the future, so storing it on your computer wouldn't be a bad idea.

How to do that, though? Using online converters is an option, but they'll never be as versatile as a full-fledged app. SharpGrabber Desktop is software to provide you with a complete package: download your clips in different formats, export their audio and video channels separately, and save their thumbnail.

This is a program focused on helping you download your videos quickly and easily, and you'll notice that after the first contact. It informs you about the services it can fetch the clips from, and all you have to do is enter the link leading to your desired video.

We managed to insert several YouTube links, and there were no issues whatsoever in downloading them to our PC. It was much the same in the case of Vimeo content: many format options to choose from, and everything exported just fine.

When it came to fetching content from Instagram, however, the app returned an error, irrespective of whether we were downloading from IGTV or regular posts. This should be fixed in the future.

A neat feature of this program is its ability to separately download audio and video channels for a given clip. This is especially useful when you want to download songs from YouTube, where the video part is irrelevant: the app will convert the video in the link into an .mp3 file, keeping just the audio.

If you ever wanted a trustier program to handle your video downloading — especially from YouTube — it's worth looking into SharpGrabber. It's easy to use, does the job well, and testing it was a positive experience.