YouTube to MP4
Turn a YouTube link into one MP4 file with picture and sound together, at any resolution from 360p to 1080p.
Sizes are shown before you convert.
How it works
Copy the video's address from the YouTube app (Share → Copy link) or from your browser.
Paste the link, keep the format on MP4 video and pick 1080p, 720p, 480p or 360p from the quality list.
Press Convert. Higher resolutions take a little longer; the Download button appears as soon as the MP4 is built.
What you get
The format every phone, TV, editor and presentation app already understands.
YouTube stores HD video and audio separately. We join them, so you never get a silent file.
1080p for big screens, 720p for phones, 480p and 360p when space or data is tight.
The most compatible MP4 flavour: it opens in QuickTime, VLC, Windows Media Player, iMovie and Premiere.
The size beside each resolution comes from the real file, not a guess based on length.
Lectures, streams and full concerts convert too, as long as the result fits the size limit shown.
The video comes out exactly as it was uploaded. We add nothing on top.
Specs
MP4 is the closest thing video has to a universal format. A file made here plays on an iPhone, an Android phone, a smart TV over USB, a games console and inside PowerPoint or Keynote without any conversion.
It is also efficient. H.264 inside MP4 keeps a 1080p video small enough to send over a messaging app or store by the dozen on a phone.
Stepping from 720p to 1080p roughly doubles the file. If you are saving a tutorial to watch on a phone, 720p is almost always enough. Save 1080p for footage you will watch on a large screen, crop, or cut into an edit.
Questions
Yes, whenever the original video was uploaded in 1080p or higher. Pick 1080p from the quality list.
Yes. Video and audio are merged into a single MP4 before you download it.
There's no fixed time limit. Each quality shows its file size, and a quality that would be too large is marked so you can pick a smaller one.
The uploader published it at a lower resolution. We can only offer what YouTube has.
Not yet. Output currently tops out at 1080p, which keeps conversions fast and files manageable.
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