Paste a link, pick a quality, save the file
The flow is exactly that. Paste any YouTube URL — the standard youtube.com/watch?v=… form, the short youtu.be/… form, or a Shorts URL — into the input above and the available qualities appear in seconds. Pick what you want, click, and the file lands in your Downloads folder.
Behind the scenes the streams come straight from YouTube’s CDN to your machine. Nothing sits on a queue server, nothing is re-encoded, nothing is uploaded anywhere. The bytes you save are the bytes YouTube hosts.
Every quality YouTube actually serves
Most online YouTube downloaders cap at 1080p, sometimes 720p, because they fetch a single combined “progressive” stream — which YouTube limits below 1080p. VidPickr fetches the separate high-quality video and audio streams and combines them in your browser, which is the only way to reach 2160p (4K) and 4320p (8K) on YouTube.
If the upload is in any of these resolutions, you’ll see them in the picker:
- 8K · 4320p (rare, but supported)
- 4K · 2160p
- 1440p QHD
- 1080p Full HD
- 720p, 480p, 360p, 240p, 144p
The size of each option is shown up front so you know what you’re committing to before clicking. For deeper detail see our guide to downloading YouTube in 4K and 8K.
More than just video
The same input handles every other YouTube extraction job we see most often:
- Audio only — original
m4a(AAC) at full bitrate, ormp3at up to 320 kbps. Use the YouTube to MP3 page if that’s your specific need. - Subtitles — manual and auto-generated, in
SRT,VTT, orTXT. Drop straight into VLC, your editor, or a Word doc. - Multi-language audio — for dubbed videos (MrBeast, Veritasium, etc.), pick the language track before download.
- Time-range clip — Plus members save just the 30-second slice they want, no need to download the full hour.
Free vs Plus
The full quality and format range is available on the free tier. There’s no “upgrade to unlock 4K” trick. Free downloads come with light display ads on the page and a short random wait gate (5–15 seconds) between consecutive downloads — that’s how we keep the service running for everyone without subscriptions becoming mandatory.
Plus ($1/month or $9.99/year) removes both, plus unlocks the time-range clip tool. See the pricing page for the full breakdown.
Your responsibility, our position
VidPickr is built primarily for creators downloading their own work — for archive, repurposing, cross-posting, or editing. It also serves anyone with a legitimate use within copyright law: content you have explicit permission to download, content under Creative Commons or in the public domain, fair-use educational and accessibility uses.
Only download content you own or have explicit permission to use. Our Terms of Service spell out the full posture.