You might have to go through half a dozen free YouTube downloaders before you find one almost as good as this app, and your time is worth something. Is Solid worth the cost versus the best of the freeware? Well, yes, actually, if you use YouTube a lot. Help resources are thin, but licensing includes support, and Solid is easy to use, quickly and easily downloading and converting YouTube videos and our saved files, one by one and in batches.

We just had to click on our phone or player, choose a destination and options, and Solid did the rest. For instance, when we selected an output format for our converted videos, Solid presented an interactive menu of choices grouped intuitively by common video and audio types as well as by devices, with lots of choices under each item, too. It has lots of options, but its unique way of presenting them not only makes things easier on users but also much clearer. With an embedded player and basic control suite, Solid is simple but not stripped down. Solid's interface was our first hint that this app eclipses most YouTube downloaders, free or not. You can try it and see for yourself for 30 days, though the free trial version limits conversions and places a watermark on videos.

With batch downloading and converting, including videos from your files and DVDs, Solid can make your life easier.

Solid proved superior in performance and looks compared to the vast majority of free YouTube downloaders, which are usually little more than glorified ad pop-ups with some simple embedded code. Actually, two ways: almost all the others are free, and frankly it shows. Solid YouTube Downloader differs from nearly every YouTube downloader we've tried in one significant way: you have to pay for it.

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