YTMate YouTube to MP3 & MP4

What happens after you paste

1. Copy On a phone, open the clip, tap the curved arrow under the video, then Copy link. On a laptop, copy whatever sits in the browser's address bar.
2. Check Once the link is in the box, a tile with the thumbnail and the clip's name slides in below the panel, so a wrong video is spotted before anything runs.
3. Convert Press Convert, or the MP3 / MP4 button on the tile itself. A bar tracks every stage; a song of a few minutes is usually finished within seconds.
4. Keep A Download button appears on the tile. Nothing reaches your device until you press it.

What the converter produces

Most people use the MP3 for music and podcasts and the MP4 for clips they want to watch offline or send to someone. More about the audio side is on the YTMate MP3 page.

YTMate, Y2Mate and TubeMate are different things

The names sound alike, which causes a lot of confusion. TubeMate is an Android app installed from an APK file. Y2Mate is a separate website. YTMate here is a web page: it runs in your browser, asks for no install and no permissions, and works the same on Android, iPhone, Windows, Mac and Chromebook.

If a site or an "official YTMate app" asks you to install something, enable notifications or sideload an APK before downloading, it is not this converter. We never ask for any of that.

No link? Search by song or artist

Type a few words, for example the artist and the song title, and press Search (or Enter). Suggestions appear while you type. Every result has its own MP3 and MP4 buttons and a Preview button that plays the video inside the page, which helps you pick the official upload instead of a re-post. Very long results show a note when MP4 is not possible.

Where the file ends up

Android

Chrome saves to the Download folder and shows a notification you can tap to open the file. Music apps and the gallery pick up new files after a moment.

iPhone and iPad

Safari asks whether to download; confirm, then find the file in the Files app under Downloads. For a video, open it, tap Share and choose Save Video to move it into Photos.

Computer

Chrome, Edge and Firefox drop the file into Downloads, unless you told the browser to ask for a folder each time.

If YTMate stops halfway

If a step fails, YTMate quietly tries once more before saying anything. When it still fails you see a code and a plain explanation:

• Video too long: MP4 stops at 30 minutes; the card then offers the MP3 instead, which works up to about 2 hours.
• Connection dropped: check your signal and press Try again. Leave the page open until the file is ready.
• Only available in some countries: YouTube blocks the video where the conversion servers run.
• Live stream or age limit: wait until a broadcast has ended; age-restricted videos cannot be converted.
• Link gone stale: a ready file waits roughly 25 minutes. Past that, simply start the conversion afresh.