YouTube Converter PRO 5.1.20 — Mac version

YouTube Converter PRO suits someone with a cluttered Downloads folder and a dozen video tabs they meant to keep. It’s a straightforward Mac app that grabs clips and audio from a handful of sites, then hands you the file in the format you actually need.

Snatching a video before it disappears

• Snatching a video before it disappears, without fussing with browser extensions.
• Turning a long talk into an audio file for the commute.
• Filling an old iPod or an iPad with stuff to watch offline — the app talks to iTunes (or the Finder, if you’re on later macOS) over Wi‑Fi.
• Choosing quality upfront, so you don’t end up with a bloated 4K file when 720p would do.

Intel-only app with eager clipboard detection

• Intel Mac only. If you’re on Apple Silicon, it’ll run through Rosetta — but the app itself is 64‑bit Intel.
• Needs macOS 10.15 or later. Anything older is out of luck.
• Clipboard detection is eager — copy a link and the app pops up straight away. Handy, but it can surprise you if you copy a URL for something else.

A quick audio rip, start to finish

Say you’ve got a live set open in your browser — one you want on your phone for tomorrow’s run. Here’s how it plays out.

1. Copy the video URL from the address bar. The app pings a notification straight away — link detected.
2. Switch to YouTube Converter PRO. It’s already parsed the link and shown you the available formats.
3. Pick Audio from the output selector. Under quality, choose MP3 320 kbps — good enough for headphones, small enough to keep a few albums around.
4. Hit Conver & Transfer. The progress bar does its thing; on an older i5 Mac the conversion takes about as long as the track itself.
5. Finder pops open to your chosen folder, file sitting there named sensibly — no random strings.

If you’ve set up Wi‑Fi sync with your iPhone beforehand, tick the device in the destination list instead. The file lands in the TV app, ready to play, no cable hunt required.

Tuesday evening: three links pasted in silence

Tuesday evening. You remember a tutorial you half-watched at lunch. You open the app first, then go find the video — a habit that keeps the clipboard detection from jumping in while you’re copying other things.

You copy three links in quick succession: the tutorial, a short documentary from Vimeo, and a track from SoundCloud you want as a ringtone. Each one queues up as you paste — the app doesn’t make you wait for one to finish before lining up the next. You set the tutorial to 720p MP4 (the whiteboard text doesn’t need 1080p), the documentary to 1080p, and the track to AAC with the ringtone preset ticked.

While the queue churns, you make tea. The ringtone finishes first — tiny file — and the app offers to drop it straight into your iPad’s tones. The documentary takes a while, saturating your Wi‑Fi for a few minutes, but the progress window keeps out of the way. By the time the kettle’s boiled, all three are sitting in a folder called Softorino Downloads, named clearly, ready to move wherever they need to live. You close the app. Nothing lingers in the menu bar. Clean.

• macOS 10.15 or later
• Intel 64‑bit processor