

There is no extension for Chrome that can be installed and this eliminates the possibility of having a direct download button within the player window. YouTube By Click worked well with the Chrome browser that I use. FLV, AVI, WebM, and MP4, the latter being the default one.

Once activated, the maximum resolution of video download was 4K (as long as the original upload was in 4K) and the download formats include 3GP. As the name suggests, most automated and advanced features of an app such as recommendations and playlist downloads are only for YouTube. The app can download videos from a number of websites including YouTube, Vimeo, Facebook, Instagram, Dailymotion etc. Overall the UI is satisfactory, it could be improved further (for example, clicking on “YouTube By Click” should open the menu instead of taking me to the website), but it is easy to use and understand. Recommendation come in handy if you are looking to download videos related to a niche/topic Other toggles include a video quality switch and a button to choose the download directory on the PC. The UI consists of some toggles to let users switch between audio and video mode and select the download format for videos. The app feels quite responsive in terms of launch timings. In both the free and paid versions, the installer does not come with any bundled software and I only found that the footprint of the application on Hard Drive to be around 33 Megabytes. The download file is small and the installation is straightforward compared to other “Video Downloading Software” I have encountered over the years. YouTube By Click is available for Windows only and it is supported on all recent releases of the OS. I went for the paid version as it can download unlimited videos and it has some other features too.

The application is available in two versions: A free, feature-limited version and a premium version, which (at the time of writing) costs $20.

YouTube By Click is a Windows only application developed by By Click Inc.
