Paste a link,
or just browse. The free YouTube downloader for Windows, Mac and Linux

Most free downloaders are a box for a URL. Arroxy has a browser of its own. Open YouTube or any other site in the Explore tab. One click saves the video, playlist or channel on screen, and a right-click works on any link on the page.

• No cookie files: the Explore sign-in is all Arroxy needs, and it brings your Watch Later and Liked lists too.
• Ad blocker when you want it: one click on the shield blocks ads and trackers on Explore’s pages.

Downloads run signed out first. A secondary account is the safer sign-in, and signing out in Settings forgets it.

Pick from 8K (4320p), 4K (2160p), 1440p, 1080p, 720p and below. High frame rate and HDR10 come through untouched, and Arroxy saves the file as MP4, MKV or WebM without re-encoding.

• Codecs side by side: AV1, VP9 and H.264 at every resolution YouTube offers them (H.264 stops at 1080p). Take the one your hardware or editor handles best.
• Pick a goal: Best picture favours AV1 and VP9, and the Smart TV profiles save MP4 with H.264. On Auto, HDR comes first only when your screen can show it.
• No surprises: Arroxy marks AI-upscaled sizes, AI-dubbed audio, 360° videos and damaged copies before you pick.

On the Format step, switch from Whole video to Part. Drag the range, type the times or pick a chapter. A link with a timestamp offers that time as the start, and the file name carries its range, so parts never overwrite each other.

• Fast by default: each cut lands on the nearest keyframe, a few seconds from the time you typed, with no re-encoding.
• Precise when it matters: turn on exact cut and Arroxy re-encodes to start on the frame you chose. It takes longer.

Save a song, a podcast or a lecture as an audio file. Arroxy writes the title, artist and upload date into the file, and can embed the thumbnail as cover art, so it looks right in your music player.

• Dolby and 5.1: when a video ships AC-3 or E-AC-3 tracks, pick them, or set Prefer surround as your default.
• Dubbed tracks: pick the language you want to hear.
• Works across sites: SoundCloud, Bandcamp and other supported sites, not only YouTube.

Drop in a playlist or channel link, set how many entries to scan, and queue them all or tick the ones you want. A messy list of links works too: Arroxy removes the duplicates and queues the rest.

• Per-item profiles: archive some videos in 4K and save the rest as audio only, in one pass.
• Playlist sync: scan again later and Arroxy grabs only the new videos, keeping an .m3u file up to date.
• Clean links: Arroxy strips tracking parameters like si, utm_* and fbclid for you.

Uploaded subtitles in every language, plus the auto-captions YouTube makes from the speech, as SRT, VTT or ASS. Save them next to the video, embed them into an .mkv, or keep them in a subtitles/ folder. Need only the captions? Paste a batch of links and get the subtitle files alone.

• SponsorBlock: skip or mark sponsors, intros, outros and self-promos as chapters.
• Soft failure: if a subtitle track fails, you still keep the video.

Everything lands in one queue: single videos, playlists, bulk lists and hotkey links. Filter it by status, pause and resume, cancel, pull one to the front, or let finished rows clear themselves.

• Parallel, with a cap: set how many downloads run at the same time, and limit the bandwidth if you need to.
• Automatic retry: turn it on and a row that hits a network or server problem tries again, waiting longer before each attempt.
• Tells you what needs you: a row that fails says why and offers the fix, such as Retry or signing in.

It works from a browser, a chat or anywhere else you can copy a link, while Arroxy sits minimised or in the tray. When the window is out of sight, a notification confirms the link, and clicking it brings Arroxy to the front. The shortcut is on by default, and you can change it in Settings.

• Clipboard watch: copy a video link and find it in the URL field when you switch back to Arroxy, with Undo if it replaced something.
• Tray mode on Windows and Linux: turn it on, close Arroxy, and downloads keep running.

A profile keeps the format, quality, folder and file name you like. Quick Download uses your active profile, and you can switch to another one right on the home screen.

• File names your way: templates with {title}, {uploader}, {date} and {resolution}.
• Tweak once, keep it: adjust the settings on the way, then update the profile they came from or save them as a new one.

Switch the style and the theme from the footer whenever you like; your queue and settings stay as they are. A computer without graphics acceleration gets Minimal automatically, so Arroxy stays smooth on older machines too.

• Zoom: make the whole interface bigger or smaller from the footer.
• Right-to-left ready: Arabic, Persian, Urdu and Pashto get a mirrored layout.