The Ultimate Guide to Top 5 Highest-Ranked Video Downloading Tools for macOS & Windows Users

Overview

Nowadays, downloading online videos has become a common and users may need to download any type of videos, like movie videos, music videos, news videos, sports videos, etc. But no matter what videos you want to download, you will need a professional video downloader.

If you google you will find tens, hundreds or even thousands of video downloaders. How can we choose the right video downloader for us among so many video downloaders? Well, there is no right or wrong criteria when choosing the video downloader, but normally users should take the supported websites, the downloading quality, the downloading speed, the supported output formats, etc under consideration.

Now the following article will recommend the top 5 video downloaders to users with aspects on supported websites, downloading speed, downloading quality,etc. However, even the best video downloader has its own Cons and users can find the right one for you after weighing the features and Cons of each one.

Top One: Allavsoft - The best Video Downloader

Allavsoft is a professional video downloader and has been developed for a long time. Allavsoft supports to download videos from more than 10,000 video and music websites, like YouTube, Facebook, Spotify, Vimeo, Udemy, Lynda, etc. It can directly download online videos and music to MP4, MP3, FLAC, AVI, FLV, MOV, MKV, WMV, WTV, etc. As for the downloading speed and the downloaded quality, Allavsoft supports to download videos at the 30X faster downloading speed and with the best video quality. Allavsoft is also developed with the batch downloading function, ad-free and virus-free functions.

Cons: Allavsoft is a professional video downloader and is also developed with video edition function, but its video edition function is not as powerful as its video downloading function.

Top Two: Bigasoft Video Downloader

Bigasoft is also recommended as one of the best video downloaders on the market. Bigasoft also supports to download videos from many video websites. The supported websites maybe not as many as Allavsoft, but still more than other competitors. It also supports batch download and batch conversion. It also supports to download the video to any widely used video format, MP4, MOV, and others. Of course, the downloading speed and the downloaded quality are also as better as Allavsoft and superior than many other video downloaders.

Cons: Bigasoft is a multifunctional program. It is developed with video converter, video editor as well as video downloader. Its multifunction, to some extent, makes its video downloader function not as powerful as Allavsoft which is with the pure video downloader function.

Top Three: Freemake Video Downloader

Freemake is a free video downloader which supports to download YouTube and other videos. Freemake supports to download playlists, favorites, charts, channels, subscriptions, etc and save them to popular video and audio formats. Freemake is a good choice for most of users who have no specific requirements of the downloaded videos.

Cons: Freemake only has Windows version and so can only be used by Windows users. The downloaded output formats are only limited to some popular video formats and if users who want to download the video to a specific video format they may need another video converter to convert the downloaded video.

Top Four: KeepVid

KeepVid is also a good video downloader for users. KeepVid supports to download videos from YouTube, Hulu, Netflix, etc. KeepVid is an easy-operational video downloader and users with less computer knowledge can learn how to use KeepVid to download online videos.

Cons: KeepVid only supports to download videos from 30 popular video websites and the number is less when compared with Allavsoft, Bigasoft, etc. And also the output formats that KeepVid support are also limited.

Top Five: Apowersoft Video Downloader

Apowersoft is also another famous video downloader which supports to download videos from various video websites. Apowersoft also supports to download online videos streamed by protocols, like HTTP, FTP, RTMP. Apowersoft is also developed with video converter, video editor, video recorder, and many other functions.

Cons: the websites and output formats supported by Apowersoft are not as many as Allavsoft, Bigasoft, etc. The downloading speed reported by users is in intermediate level.

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