YouTube Download Manager by QANEN
YDM is a fast, stable, resumable video and playlist downloader. One self-contained executable with a high-performance download engine built in — paste a link, pick your quality, and let the queue handle the rest.
Most download tools stall, lose progress, or fall over on large playlists. YDM is engineered around the boring things that matter: resumes, retries, disk safety, and honest metrics. A download interrupted at 90% continues at 90% — not zero.
The window is a face, not the process. Downloads, clipboard detection, and notifications all run from the system tray — close the window and everything continues. Launching YDM twice hands the link to the running copy instead of starting a second instance.
YDM is freeware: completely free and unlimited to use. No account, no subscription, no nagging — the same standard of quality engineering the rest of our products are built to.
YDM by QANEN lives at its own address — downloads, documentation, guides and updates.
YDM, feature by feature.
Resumable by default
Sessions are persisted and partial files survive restarts — an interrupted download continues exactly where it stopped.
Adaptive concurrency
Download workers start at 4 and climb a 2→12 ladder based on real throughput and fragment error rates, with hysteresis against oscillation.
Gentle, smart retries
Stepped backoff capped at humane limits — fast recovery from throttling without hammering servers, with errors classified into readable causes.
Stream-copy merging
Video and audio are merged by stream copy — no re-encode, no generational quality loss, minimal CPU. MP3 only when requested.
Playlist selection
Checkboxes for individual videos, or compact index expressions like 1-10 or 3,6,8 — validated with friendly errors.
Multi-job queue
Run up to 8 jobs in parallel. Start, pause, stop, delete, reorder or edit queued jobs with live blended progress.
Clipboard detection
Copy a supported link and YDM offers a one-click "Add to Queue" popup — pausable from the tray when you need quiet.
Real-time metrics
Instant and rolling speed, ETA, worker count and retry counters — plus per-file progress for dual-stream downloads.
Searchable history
The last 500 downloads, grouped by day, with reveal-in-folder and open-in-player actions, and optional duplicate skipping.
Disk-space guard
Free space is checked before and during downloads with a safe margin — doubled while video and audio await merging.
Speed limiter
Throttle to any rate you like — useful on shared connections or metered links.
Always-current parsing
The built-in extraction layer is refreshed with every release and auto-detects a local JavaScript runtime for the newest formats.
The essentials.
- Platform
- Windows 10 / 11 (64-bit)
- Setup
- One portable executable, or a friendly per-user installer
- Price
- Free and unlimited to use (freeware)
- Outputs
- MP4 video, MP3 audio, original-quality stream copy
- Latest version
- 4.2.3
- Privacy
- Runs entirely on your machine — no accounts, no server in the loop
Quick answers.
Is YDM free?
Yes. YDM is freeware — completely free and unlimited to use, with no accounts or subscriptions.
Where can I learn more or download it?
The official product website at ydm.qanen.site hosts downloads, documentation, FAQs and guides.
A fast, stable, resumable video and playlist downloader for Windows.
One self-contained executable with a high-performance download engine built in — paste a link, pick your quality, and let the queue handle the rest.