How to Download YouTube Videos to MP4 on a Mac?

"YouTube" is addicting, I click on a music video next thing you know I'm watching how to make an Ice-cream. God! YouTube such a time healer app, it gives us so much knowledge and entertainment. YouTube offers users a way to listen to a wealth of music for free, streaming millions of hours of content every single day.

But who can watch YouTube for the whole day knowingly that you get only limited data to use or at maximum 1GB of daily data? So here is the thing, you can learn how to download those YouTube videos to mp4 video on Mac OS.

We know that we always don't have an internet connection, and we can't expect YouTube videos to live online forever. So, naturally, there are lots of demands for ways to convert that particular video into a downloadable MP4 video. While YouTube provides a way to do this on mobile phones (YouTube Premium), the site offers no official means for saving YouTube clips on a Mac.

So, here is the article which will help you to turn the unofficial YouTube downloaders for Macs, including the safest option and methods too. Wondering what you risk by going against YouTube's rules? The ways of circumventing YouTube's rules are neither simple nor are they particularly safe.

How to convert YouTube videos to MP4 files on a Mac?

Technically, it is not illegal to convert YouTube videos to MP4, but it is illegal to download the copyright music video. YouTube and Google both have attempted to shut down several websites that offer converter services. However, the easiest YouTube downloader that works on Macs is via the website Online Video Converter.

Here's how to do it:

1. Copy the URL of the YouTube video.
2. Open online video converter, you may need to decline a request for notifications.
3. Paste in the YouTube video URL that you copied in step 1.
4. Select a file format. As you see here, it defaults to MP4, the format of choice for many.
5. Click More Settings to find resolution options.
6. Select a preferred resolution (larger means crisper videos and bigger files).
7. Uncheck the Convert From and Convert To boxes, and add start and/or end times if you don't want the whole video.
8. Click start.
9. Click download.
10. Close the pop-up windows that open. Yes, they might say you need a Flash update, but it's a scam. Nonsense like this is the price you pay for not wanting to spend money on your downloads.
11. Click Leave, because that pop-up is clever.

Your YouTube video has downloaded to your Mac!

Now, you need to learn which is the best app to do the same. So, If I knew someone who needed a YouTube video downloader and wanted the most trustworthy option I'd tell them about YouTube2Video. It is the most trustworthy option for Mac. Unfortunately, it's endorsement here isn't strong.

Though this is all how you can download the YouTube videos to MP4 on Mac. Technology has been developed a lot in the past years. We all need to understand how to utilize that in a better way not for us but for our society too, it'll lead our country to a great end. We all need to work upon that and be focused.

My name is Karan Prakash. I am an Seo Executive.