Sunday, April 27, 2025

App Discovery: Cobalt.tools, the video downloader that just works

One of the biggest pet peeves about Youtube is it's impossible to simply transfer your video to a different channel, when you have several. You have to download your videos, then re-upload them to the other channel, then re-enter the information. 

While for channel owners there is an option to download individual videos, there is no mass download option, so you need to click on each one individually to download each file individually, and you are now at the mercy of your browser's downloader. And every once in a while, you run into a few videos that just refuse to download. You click on download, you somehow get dumped back to the content tab, or the download simply "failed" with no error given. 

Yes, there are all sorts of shady sites and apps that claims to download Youtube videos for you, many of them want money, subscription, or more. Just search for "Youtube downloader" on Google... They all look shady for one reason or another. 

Then I found https://cobalt.tools , yes, that's the whole URL. 

No registration, no payment, no subscription. 

Simply paste in the URL of the video you want downloaded, and voila, it downloads. Even the ones previous you can't download from Youtube itself as the owner of the video. 

It has other options, like get audio only of a video, or download from other platforms (not just Youtube, but all the Chinese ones, like Bilibili, Xiaohongshu, as well as the Western ones). 

It just works. 



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