VidStow is for videos you have the right to keep.

What VidStow does, and doesn’t

VidStow runs on your own computer and saves videos straight from YouTube to a folder you choose. We don’t host, store, index or share any videos, and nothing you download passes through our servers.

The terms of use ask people to save only what they have the right to keep: their own uploads, Creative Commons and public-domain work, and videos whose creator allows it. VidStow does not remove DRM or other copy protection.

About the videos on this website

The videos shown in our demos are Blender open movies, published under Creative Commons Attribution; NASA footage, which is in the public domain; and MIT OpenCourseWare lectures, published under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike. Thumbnails and channel names belong to their creators and appear only to show how the app works.

Raising a concern

If you think something on this website uses your work without permission, or that VidStow is being used to infringe your copyright, email legal@vidstow.com with the work you are concerned about, where you saw it, how to reach you, and a statement that you are the rights holder or are acting for them. We reply within five business days.

For a video uploaded to YouTube itself, YouTube’s own copyright tools are the fastest way to have it reviewed, since only YouTube can remove it there.