How To Use Ymate / Y2mate App For Downloading Youtube Videos For Free [2022]

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Youtube is one of the most popular social media platforms for sharing videos. Ever since its launch in 2005 and its eventual takeover by Google in 2006, Youtube quickly rose to the top of its charts and became the second most visited site on the world wide web, after Google.

However, Youtube does not allow the download of videos or audio files of uploaded videos. However, this feature is available for mobile devices, albeit in a limited format.

This was not liked by many students and content creators, who require video and audio clips from other videos for projects and other content. To answer their prayers, many third-party Youtube video downloaders were released, with Ymate and Y2mate being two of the most famous ones.

In this article, we are going to go over the features of both these Youtube video downloaders and help you learn how to download Youtube videos for free.

What Is YMate?

Ymate is a free-to-use youtube video downloader that anyone can use on the internet. All you need to do is copy the link of their favorite youtube videos and paste it on the download box of this website.

It will then give many options for you to download the video in one of many formats. The supported formats include m4a, mp4, 3gp, and lots more. You can also download just the audio file of the video.

Alongside Youtube, it also supports the download of videos from other websites too, like 9Gag, Buzzfeed, Bandcamp, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok, Twitch, Twitter, Reddit, Tumblr, and lots more.

Ymate is completely free to use and was launched in the year 2020, which was exactly 2 years ago. Therefore, this site is relatively new and has not yet been updated with all its features. Therefore, the site appears to be quite bland and unintuitive but easily gets the job done nonetheless.

Ymate has an android version of the application, that you can download from the Google PlayStore. It has the same functions as the website, albeit it’s a bit more intuitive with a nice UI and UX design.

However, it has been removed from the store temporarily. Also, there is no Ymate application available for iPhone users as of 2022.

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What Is Y2Mate?

Like Ymate, Y2mate is another free-to-use Youtube video downloader. However, unlike YMate, Y2mate is one of the most popular Youtube video downloaders on the world wide web.

Y2mate has been around for almost an entire decade. Since its launch, millions of users have been using this website on a daily basis to download Youtube videos and audio files. It follows the same principle of YMate – copy-pasting links of youtube videos on the website to generate the video or audio that you want to download.

Like YMate, Y2Mate allows you to download videos from multiple websites as well, making itself not limited to only Youtube. You can download videos from Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, Snapchat, LinkedIn, Reddit, and lots more.

Y2Mate has an android application along with an iPhone application for smartphones. They are pretty solidly and intuitively made, and have been received favorably by smartphone users of the application.

Unlike YMate, Y2Mate allows you to convert videos in any file format. While this option was present in Ymate, it was used in a limited fashion. However, Y2mate takes full benefit of this, allowing users to download videos in multiple video formats (like Avi, Mkv, mp4, 3gp, and more), and audio too (m4a, AAC, FLAC, mp3, and more).

How To Use Ymate / Y2mate App For Downloading Youtube Video For Free?

To start downloading videos from Youtube for free, you need to follow these steps:

Open your browser
Go to Youtube
Search for the video you want to download
Click and start watching that video
Copy the link to the video
Open another tab
Search on Google for YMate or Y2Mate
Go to their respective websites
Paste the link of the video on the link box on their homepage
Press ther Download (YMate) or Convert (Y2Mate) button underneath it
You will be shown options for the file format – video or audio – that you wish to download
After selecting a format, press ther Download button that appears once again

Conclusion

If you want to download videos or audio files from Youtube, then you cannot go wrong with either YMate or Y2Mate. Both are in their respect great Youtube video downloaders. In our opinion, Y2Mate is the better one because of various other features like more supported file formats and better servers for faster downloads.

However, YMate is just two years old in 2022. Therefore, this is not a fair comparison. Both are great Youtube video downloaders.