Reviews for Easy Youtube Video Downloader Express
Easy Youtube Video Downloader Express by Dishita
Review by Kavaeric
Rated 5 out of 5
by Kavaeric, 2 years agoNote: I donated and am a premium account user.
I was honestly sceptical going into using this downloader. I mean, we all know how sketchy it is to find anything that doesn't yell at you with stupid ad placements, is free of broken functions, janky menus, errors, and just works. This does the job, though, better than anything else I know.
Operation is pretty straightforward: it slaps a drop-down next to the "subscribe" button on YouTube. Click it, and you'll get a list of options. Choose your format and quality, wait a while, and then it'll present you with a download dialog box not unlike downloading anything else off the internet. Alternatively, you can also access the drop-down from the button on your toolbar if you'd prefer, though there isn't a way to actually get rid of the inline button.
Really I can't think of anything to properly fault this add-on for, it makes downloading videos so painless I honestly don't want to think about how I managed this before. I have donated and have access to the higher quality presets, but even a free user gets up to 720p quality, which for the average guy who wants to download a video for offline viewing or memes, is probably good enough. The extension itself appears to be built intelligently too: if you accidentally cancel out of the dialog box, upon reloading the page and retrying the page, the app seems to serve you a cached copy of that transcode, so you don't have to wait through another lengthy conversion process. Nice!
Occasionally the transcode might fail, or the extension gets stuck on a "already in queue, please wait" for an unusual amount of time. But that's also easily fixed with a quick restart of the browser (or the computer in one instance), and based on my experience downloading a /lot/ of videos with this tool, real bugs like this seem rare. The closest thing I can maaaybe fault the developer for is that they're clearly not a graphic designer, and I do kind of wish the button menu matched my dark theme. But a quick look around makes a lack of visual flair par for the course with these kinds of add-ons, so again I can't honestly dock stars for that. Besides, 99% of the time your interaction with this app is that drop-down menu, and the button's placement and styling on the YouTube page is pretty well done all things considered; half the time I have someone looking on my screen they don't even notice it's there. Plus, if you really want it to look pretty, it's easy enough to install something like Stylus and have a go matching the fonts yourself.
Overall, I've used a lot of YouTube downloaders before, and this is definitely the best I've encountered. It's just really streamlined and hard to find fault in. If you want an extension to just nick a video off of YouTube, no if-so-buts no strings attached, this more than scratches that itch.
I was honestly sceptical going into using this downloader. I mean, we all know how sketchy it is to find anything that doesn't yell at you with stupid ad placements, is free of broken functions, janky menus, errors, and just works. This does the job, though, better than anything else I know.
Operation is pretty straightforward: it slaps a drop-down next to the "subscribe" button on YouTube. Click it, and you'll get a list of options. Choose your format and quality, wait a while, and then it'll present you with a download dialog box not unlike downloading anything else off the internet. Alternatively, you can also access the drop-down from the button on your toolbar if you'd prefer, though there isn't a way to actually get rid of the inline button.
Really I can't think of anything to properly fault this add-on for, it makes downloading videos so painless I honestly don't want to think about how I managed this before. I have donated and have access to the higher quality presets, but even a free user gets up to 720p quality, which for the average guy who wants to download a video for offline viewing or memes, is probably good enough. The extension itself appears to be built intelligently too: if you accidentally cancel out of the dialog box, upon reloading the page and retrying the page, the app seems to serve you a cached copy of that transcode, so you don't have to wait through another lengthy conversion process. Nice!
Occasionally the transcode might fail, or the extension gets stuck on a "already in queue, please wait" for an unusual amount of time. But that's also easily fixed with a quick restart of the browser (or the computer in one instance), and based on my experience downloading a /lot/ of videos with this tool, real bugs like this seem rare. The closest thing I can maaaybe fault the developer for is that they're clearly not a graphic designer, and I do kind of wish the button menu matched my dark theme. But a quick look around makes a lack of visual flair par for the course with these kinds of add-ons, so again I can't honestly dock stars for that. Besides, 99% of the time your interaction with this app is that drop-down menu, and the button's placement and styling on the YouTube page is pretty well done all things considered; half the time I have someone looking on my screen they don't even notice it's there. Plus, if you really want it to look pretty, it's easy enough to install something like Stylus and have a go matching the fonts yourself.
Overall, I've used a lot of YouTube downloaders before, and this is definitely the best I've encountered. It's just really streamlined and hard to find fault in. If you want an extension to just nick a video off of YouTube, no if-so-buts no strings attached, this more than scratches that itch.
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- Rated 1 out of 5by Pariah, 12 hours agoI installed this, it shows a successful installation but there is no sign of of it anywhere, no tool bar icon, no additional button on Youtube. seems to do nothing.
- Rated 1 out of 5by TheMitsuoCat, a day ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Kazuro Maeda, 3 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by werking peepull, 3 days agoPro version has not worked for over 6months.
Ignore fake positive reviews. Do not buy.
Using Video Download Helper now instead (one-off lifetime-license payment $29), which works great for YT downloads. - Rated 1 out of 5by hoochhop, 5 days agoUsed this add on for many years and for many years worked flawlessly. Sad to see it go. Now it does absolutely nothing as of mid 2024. Seems developer has abandoned the project. Any positive reviews must be from bots or developer himself.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Rudolf, 7 days agoI have been using this extension for years. It never failed me once. Even without the HD quality this remains one of, if not the only, best Youtube downloader ever made, and believe me I have tried many. Big thanks for the developer and keep up the good work.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18209476, 7 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by ittay1, 7 days agodoesn't work at all - for almost a year. Seems development stopped while developer's site continues to ask for DONATIONS (!!!) claiming it's "THE BEST..."
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14202427, 8 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18909925, 8 days agoFuncionava mas parou de funcionar, nao serve pra nada. Fica eternamente com a mensagem "Gerando link para download" e nunca vem. Eu removi.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Javed, 9 days ago