YouTube videos are designed to stream not to store in your hard disk (memory), but downloading them can be a good idea rather than watching them again and again and wasting your too much bandwidth (data).
You can watch them offline whenever you want, no waste of data no buffering no restrictions. You can also use webinar software to turn your presentations into a video.
There is an app called TubeMate for Android that makes it possible to download YouTube videos directly from your smartphone and it’s quite simple too to use, You can download YouTube videos in any quality with just one click even in 1080p, 2k, or 4k with audio.
As you may know for 1080p or higher quality you need to download video and audio separately and then join them with a software, but TubeMate does it for you in a single click no need to download them separately and then join them,
TubeMate will do all these for you but you will also need another app installed named MP3 Video Converter (only for downloading 1080p or higher quality videos), TubeMate also enables you to download YouTube videos in Mp3.
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Step by Step Full Tutorial to Download Youtube Videos in 4K With Android Phone for Free :
Step 1 – Download & Install TubeMate App
TubeMate app is no more there in the Google Play Store, it was taken down from the Play Store because apparently Google wasn’t too happy with users downloading videos from YouTube. And with YouTube now allowing users to download videos for offline viewing, TubeMate getting banned.
So first of all you’ll need to allow your Android device to install and run apps downloaded from other places. Be cautious when you turn on this setting, as you’ll want to make sure you only downloaded apps you know are safe and reliable.
Open up Settings and go to Security. Scroll down and next to where it says ‘Unknown sources’, tap the toggle to turn this setting on.
Now download TubeMate from their official website.
Goto -> TubeMate.Net
There is a list of verified sites, Download it from any site in the list, We suggest Android Freeware to download.
You might see a warning message about downloading APK files, so click ‘OK’ to allow it.
Run the file and Install it after download completes -> Open TubeMate -> Agree Terms of Use
Step 2 – Search & Download YouTube Video
TubeMate looks like the normal YouTube app, with an extra frame around it. Here you can search for any Video of your choice as you do on YouTube, you can also paste url of the video in URL section in the Options menu (top right corner).
Search for a video and click on the video, it will open the video page, on top of this page click on Green download button as you can see in the images below, Here you will see a list of different available quality in which you can download the video, Just select the quality in which you want to download the video and click ‘Download’.
For quality lower then 1080p it will start instantly, for 1080p or higher quality it will ask you to download MP3 Video Converter, Just click on ‘Install’ and download it from the Play store.
Install it when download completes, No need to open the app when you want to download a video as TubeMate will use it in background you just need to Install it. After installing MP3 Video Converter you can also Download videos in 1080p or 2k or even 4k with audio.
TubeMate also supports DailyMotion, Vimeo, Facebook, Matacafe, Youku and other sites,
Here is a full list of Supported Sites by TubeMate:
- YouTube
- DailyMotion
- Youku
- Vimeo
- MetaCafe
- Naver
- Daum
- LeTV
To download videos from other sites, hit the option button at top left cornor in the app, Choose any site from the list to download their videos.
Use VPN to download restricted videos.
If a video is restricted in your country, just use a VPN app to change your IP address and download the video. There are many good free apps available on the Play Store that will do this for you.
We recommend using Privacycritic to compare VPNs against each other. It gives you an easy-to-use scorecard that will tell you the best VPN based on your need.
Weneedprivacy also has a good list of the best VPN services that are available. Most of them are paid though, but there are some really efficient free VPNs too.
You may also use proxies to download videos, Like Hidester for instance.
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