Free downloads, and the reason limits exist
Every download consumes server capacity that somebody pays for, and the free tier is built around that fact.
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YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Twitter/X, Facebook, Vimeo, Reddit, Dailymotion, Twitch, and 1000+ more.
Pro users enjoy an ad-free downloader. Free tier may show sponsored placements. No URL history sold. Optional Vidzilla extension for Page Media — same privacy standards.
Files go straight to your device.
What the word free covers on this page
You open the page, put an address in the box, press Analyze, choose a row, and press Download file. No part of that sequence asks you to pay. The video that arrives is the encoding the source published, and it belongs to your device from the moment it finishes writing.
Free is the ordinary way to use the site rather than a sample of it. The results list is the same list a paying visitor sees, the rows carry the same resolutions and the same sizes, and the file that transfers is the same file.
A download is not a free thing to produce
Reading the address you paste is work done on our machines. A server opens the page, follows redirects, identifies each media file, measures it, and then moves the bytes of the file you chose out to your device. All of that occupies processor time, memory, and outbound bandwidth for as long as it lasts.
A two-minute clip finishes that cycle in seconds. A long recording holds the same capacity for far longer. Since the capacity is finite and shared by everyone on the site at that moment, the free tier is shaped so that one visitor with an appetite for enormous files cannot absorb the room the next hundred visitors need.
The three limits, written out
There are exactly three, and none of them is hidden behind a countdown or a surprise partway through a transfer.
- Three downloads per day. That is the count of files you take, not the number of addresses you analyse.
- 150 MB for any single file. The figure applies to each file on its own, so three files of 140 MB are all within free use.
- Advertising on the pages while you work. Ads pay for the capacity described above, which is what keeps the count above zero.
What you see at the moment you reach one
The size limit announces itself before anything transfers. Analyze prints the size on every row, so you know which side of 150 MB a file falls on while you are still deciding. Selecting a row above the ceiling tells you so at that point, and no partial file is written to your disk.
The daily count behaves the same way. When the third download of the day is finished, the page says so rather than starting a fourth transfer and abandoning it. Nothing you already saved is affected, because those copies are files on your own storage now and no longer have anything to do with us.
Working inside 150 MB on purpose
The size column is the control you have. One resolution step down on the same video is a considerably smaller file, and on a phone screen the two look alike. An audio-only row, where the source publishes one, is smaller again.
A file prepared for you does not sit and wait indefinitely. Prepared files expire on a short timer, so pick your row and take the file in the same sitting rather than leaving the tab for an hour and returning to it.
What paying changes, and what it does not
Pro removes the daily count, removes the 150 MB ceiling, and removes the advertising. Those three things are the whole difference. Analyze reads the same pages, the list comes back the same, and the transfer works in the same way.
Paying has no effect on what a source publishes. A video behind a sign-in form, a subscription, or a purchase is not served to anyone who is not signed in, so Analyze returns an empty list on both tiers. A deleted video is gone from the host and no tier reaches it.
Questions about free use and its limits
Why does a free video downloader need any limit at all?
Each download occupies server processor time and outbound bandwidth while it runs. Limits keep that shared capacity spread across everybody using the site rather than consumed by a few very large transfers.
Do the three daily downloads have to be used one after another?
No. They are an allowance for the day rather than a session. Take one in the morning and two in the evening if that suits you better.
Can a file larger than 150 MB be split into smaller pieces for free use?
No. This page hands over the file the source published and does not cut it up. Choose a lower row that falls under 150 MB, or take Pro for that exact file.
Does free use give me lower quality than a paid download?
No. Both tiers see the identical list of encodings and receive the identical file. The ceiling limits which rows you can take, not how good any row is.
Are the ads the reason free downloads exist?
Advertising revenue pays for the servers doing the reading and the transferring. Without it there would be no free allowance to offer anyone.
If I take Pro and later stop paying, do I lose the videos I saved?
No. Every file you downloaded is written to your own storage and stays there. Ending a subscription changes what you can download next, not what you already have.