YouTube – the great time-sink of our generation. Many an hour is lost each day by millions of users watching content online, specifically on YouTube. Logistically it’s impossible to consume all the content you wish to watch – with playlists or user subscriptions it’s easy to inundate your senses with days worth of quality content. It’s not hard for it to quickly become impractical to view all the media while online. While all smartphones have the ability to view YouTube videos, if you depend on this feature and don’t have an unlimited data plan then you might eclipse your allotment  in just a few hours of consuming. In this case you may be interested in downloading the videos for offline or even repeated viewing.

There are numerous YouTube offline video download applications but not all of them support playlists or subscriptions to a users channel. Free YouTube Download is one such application that fits the bill however. The free windows application allows the user to download a single video or whole collections – whether playlists or subscribed channels – for later viewing.

The software’s interface is simple yet elegant. While you can download the file in the original YouTube format, the real interesting functionality is the applications ability to then convert the video into other file formats, such as MP4 or WMV, automatically. Further, Free YouTube Download can be configured to download a specific quality by default – so if a video is available in 720p HD you can be confident you’ll grab the highest quality for later viewings.

Lastly, Free YouTube Download has full iTunes integration. Download files can be added automatically to an iTunes playlist where they can then be synced to your iDevice for portable viewing – an extremely handy value-add to an otherwise great piece of software.

Free YouTube Download is compatible on all recent releases of Windows and requires the .NET framework.

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