CNET Editors' review
If you generally skip to the back of a review to read the results, we'll save you the trouble and state up front that aTube Catcher is the YouTube downloader to get. Not just because it's one of the few free and non-ad-supported tools of its kind, though that ought to be enough because it means it's not ad-linked and can download videos from lots of other Web sites, too, including Google, Dailymotion, Yahoo, Comedy Central, Spike, and many others. But aTube Catcher is actually a video toolkit packing many free tools such as DVD/Blu-Ray/CD Creator, DA DVD Ripper, Video & Audio Crop Tool, Queue Manager, Screen Record, Audio Recorder, and others. Some are built in while others require free downloads but integrate fully with aTube Catcher. This program also creates animated GIFs, Audio CDs, ringtones, and MP3s. It captures video streams, converts and merges videos, and erases rewriteable disks, too.
Neat, clean, and compact sums up aTube Catcher's dialog-size user interface, which opens on the Normal mode tab. This is the program's main tool, its video downloader. It's a lot like the others, with some notable (and welcome) exceptions, such as the Enable YouTube HD check box. Better yet, an Output Profile drop-down list offers dozens of different devices and formats, everything from AVI to Zune. It also offers No Conversion, NTSC and PAL TV formats, animated GIF, HD, and lots of other interesting choices. The other tabs access the program's other capable, no-nonsense tools: Stream Catcher, Screen Record, Video Converter, and more. As if that weren't enough, clicking the Tools menu revealed still more utilities as well as the General Settings, Cache, Language, and YouTube options. Add a Video Search Tool and MP3 Downloader to the tool list, incidentally.
Does it seem like aTube Catcher offers a bit too much? Nonsense! Just click Help on the toolbar. This program has one of the longest Help menus we've seen, including the Web-based Manual that opened as soon as our installation completed, as well as links to download codecs, WinpCap, and an Encoder Version. If you skipped to the end, we'll say it again: just get it.
Publisher's Description
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Download videos from web sites like YouTube, and YouTube (HD), Xtube, Dailymotion, Megavideo, Google, Yahoo!, Metacafe, Spike, Megarotic , Pornotube, Yahoo!, MTV, Comedycentral, Globo, RTVE. Download Videos from thousands of Web Sites like YouTube. YouTube HighDefinition 1080p, 720p, and 480p support. Download and Merge videos. Turbo Mode, upto 600% faster than other YouTube Downloaders. Integrated Audio and Video Converter. DVD, VCD and Audio CD Burning support. Audio Recorder mode, to capture Audio from any input to MP3, WAV, WMA. Profiles Editor, to create and share custom encoding output profiles. IE Cache Browser, search FLV's and SWF's on Internet Explorer's cache. Video Search Tool, thousands of videos in just seconds (adult content sources supported). Stream Catcher Mode, to capture any video directly from the network interface. MP3 Downloader, to search more than 150,000,000 millions of mp3's from social sites. URL Monitor helps to you monitor your web browser windows to get the links.
Create GIF's with your downloaded videos. Clip board monitor, helps to keep a history of links from your clipboard. Batch download support. Downloads List, to manage and download multiple videos at the same time. Create playable home DVD's with your downloaded videos in just a single click. YouTube/Megavideo Login support to download private and original files. Screen Recording support, capture any area of your screen, so you can capture video presentations, video conferences from messenger, games. Video Joiner to merge your existent files. Create high quality Audio CD's capable with any player, just drag your video/audio files to aTube. Burn DVD/CD ISO/MDS images previously created with aTube or with any software. Create Ring Tones for your mobile phone. Multi-Language Interface. Optimized for multicore processors and low memory usage. Formats supported WMV, MP4, MPG1, MPG2, 3GP, 3G2, AVI, DIVX, XVID, MP3, MOV, FLV, WAV, WMA, GIF, IPOD, IPOD TOUCH, PSP, FLAC, OGG, MP2, VOB.
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All versions:
3.6 starsout of 139 votes
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Current version:
4.6 starsout of 11 votes
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"excellent!!!!!!"
Version: aTube Catcher 2.3.570
Pros
fast and easy
Cons
its a little slow at the download
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"Amazingly effective and simple to use."
Version: aTube Catcher 2.3.570
Pros
Great tool to build a good mp3 collection of your own quality. Extracts videos as well.
Extracting and creating MP3s negate any possibility of virus.Cons
Should overcome country restriction on Hulu!
Summary
Loads of functionality yet simple to use.
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"my favorite URL video DLer so far."
Version: aTube Catcher 2.3.570
Pros
works on sites my old one didnt, even sites that it doesnt say it works on. basic but effective onscreen recording software.
Cons
eh, froze the first time i closed it, but not since.
Summary
Seems great, Downlaoder and converter. as well as on-screen recorder, for those sites that it doesnt cover, but you still want what they have.
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"Easy to use; doesn't usually work"
Version: aTube Catcher 2.3.570
Pros
Seems to work every time for Youtube; easy to figure out
Cons
Doesn't work on many non-youtube sites
Summary
Worked easily the first 2 times. Then, kept getting error messages. Maybe the sites I was trying to download from had protestion from copying that Youtube didn't. Whatever the reason, like most URL downloaders I've tried, not terribly effective.
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"easy to use. overall very good software."
Version: aTube Catcher 2.3.570
Pros
turbo download , easy to use
Cons
nothing to say
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"amazing great"
Version: aTube Catcher 2.3.570
Pros
I dont want to miss to rate this software.. this software is great and faster and the best! its free!
Cons
nothing so far..
Summary
i appreciate the developer of this software.. really great!
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"simply the best"
Version: aTube Catcher 2.3.570
Pros
Fantastic software. Useful, stable easy to use. I just wish I could have it as an extension to my browser
Cons
I haven't found
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"Marvellous piece of software"
Version: aTube Catcher 2.3.570
Pros
The auto paste feature makes for a very easy catch!
Cons
Everything about it is good!
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"THE BEST... AND USE PORTUGUESE LANGUAGE!!!"
Version: aTube Catcher 2.3.570
Pros
VERY GOOD. THE BEST
Cons
Gooooooooood.......................
Summary
I no understand...
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"Awesome!!!"
Version: aTube Catcher 2.3.570
Pros
Very user friendly, and filled with all the features one could as for: live stream catcher, screen recorder, video converter, dvd/cd converter, audio recorder etc. It even has a strong search engine to locate videos and mp3 you might be looking for.
Cons
Doesn't seem to convert videos to 3gp format...though the option is available, the output files turn out to be 3gpp and not 3gp =/
Summary
A must have tool for all! One of the most comprehensive softwares I have ever come across.
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