Easy Video Downloader

Pros

• Grab video files for mobile use
• Download and convert as needed

Cons

• Slow
• Many video sites not supported

Easy Video Downloader simplifies downloading videos from the Web for mobile use.

Easy Video Downloader is a Windows program that seeks to solve a problem that many mobile users have. Many users want videos on their phone or tablet that can be viewed offline. The problem there is that videos often download in a format that mobile devices can’t handle natively.

What this program seeks to do is ease the challenge of downloading those files for offline use and converting them to a file format that your device can handle natively. Easy Video Downloader works with YouTube, Google Video and Facebook. Provided a source, the app is very hands off. Just press the start button and wait for it to complete. You can opt between either AVI or MPEG4.

The user interface is well done. It’s modern and organized, and it doesn’t include clutter outside of a few links to the developer’s other software solutions. It features an accurate progress bar and makes it easy to determine where the downloaded and/or converted file is saved to. Depending on which mobile device you use, if it’s connected, you can even save the file directly to its storage.

Easy Video Downloader has a lot going for it, but it also has some significant downsides that we think may push users to the competition. One big issue is the speed at which it performs conversion to AVI. Relative to other download solutions like it, Easy Video Downloader is quite slow. Another issue is that it doesn’t interact with sites in a user-friendly way. You have to search in your browser, for instance, and then, input links one at a time. When the current conversion is complete, you can input another. Further compounding the problem is that many video-hosting sites are simply not supported or at least not well.

Pros

• Grab video files for mobile use
• Download and convert as needed

Cons

• Slow
• Many video sites not supported