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Mac Video Downloader

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Key Details of Mac Video Downloader

  • Download YouTube, Hulu, UStream, CBS, MTV, HBO, and any Web video to your PC in any format.
  • Last updated on 2/29/2024
  • There have been 5 updates
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Editors' Review

Download.com staff

Featuring a video converter and a Web browser with an embedded media downloader, Mac Video Downloader for Mac helps you find and grab audio and video files from virtually any video-sharing Web site. This premium app manages to detect approximately 90 percent of all videos, with a 100 percent success rate for popular sites like YouTube and Vimeo, but it eats a lot of system resources.

After a quick installation, Mac Video Downloader launches its built-in browser. The browser, itself, behaves just like Safari with one exception: it lets you change the User Agent between Mac, iOS, and Android, effectively emulating the Web browsers of mobile devices. As soon as you land on a page with embedded audio or video content, Mac Video Downloader will pop up a window through which you can choose which file to download. The download is generally fast, but it depends of course on your connection. The conversion is also relatively fast; we were able to convert a four-minute FLV file to an MP4 in about 20 seconds. When it comes to performance, however, the app leaves a large footprint: over 500MB of RAM.

Mac Video Downloader provides an all-in-one solution for anyone who wants to download and convert media files for their mobile devices or just to keep locally on their Mac. While this app does its job well, the price tag and the large amount of RAM it eats are two big disadvantages, especially when comparing the app to the many free and better optimized options out there.

Editors' note: This is a review of the trial version of Mac Video Downloader for Mac 2.5.

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Full Specifications

WHAT'S NEW IN VERSION 3.9.988.86
Version 3.3.929.88 adds Video Capture Plugin.
GENERAL
Release
July 18, 2017
Latest update
February 29, 2024
Version
3.9.988.86
OPERATING SYSTEMS
Platform
Mac
Operating System
OS X 10.8, Mac OS X, Mac OS X 10.5, OS X 10.9, Mac OS X 10.7, OS X 10.11, Mac OS X 10.6, OS X 10.10
Additional Requirements
None
POPULARITY
Total Downloads
277,128
Downloads Last Week
1
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Developer's Description

By Mac Video Downloader
Download YouTube, Hulu, UStream, CBS, MTV, HBO, and any Web video to your PC in any format.
Mac Video Downloader is a shareware web video application. It's a full-featured tool that can create, convert, and download web videos, but unlike freeware tools that only work with a few sites or file types (or just with YouTube) Mac Video Downloader can download pretty much any video that can be downloaded, and from any video hosting site. The embedded browser window lets you search securely for videos directly from inside Mac Video Downloader's interface without having to install any add-ons or codecs to your main browser. Mac Video Downloader can download videos from more than 200,000 sites, so finding suitable material was no problem.