Ultimate Downloader

Ultimate Downloader is a tool that enables you to download video clips from various online sources, such as YouTube, Vimeo, Facebook, Veoh, Metacafe and Dailymotion.

Extensive filetype support

It's capable of saving them as well as of converting local videos to a wide range of filetypes, such as MP4, MPG, WMV, FLV and MOV. Moreover, it can extract the audio stream to save it as MP3, or prepare videos for playback on PSP, iPhone, iPod, Android, and other devices.

Setup and interface

The installation is fast and simple, and the only notable aspect is that you must have the ffmpeg codec. Ultimate Downloader is wrapped in a user-friendly interface with a built-in web browser for video clips, in addition to a dual-pane file browser for locating and selecting local videos for conversion.

Customize output preferences

When it comes to the output audio and video properties, you can set the size, bit rate, frame rate, and sample rate. Furthermore, it's possible to preserve the original video format after download, enter the preferred filename, as well as delete the source clip after conversion.

Configure general options

As far as program settings are concerned, you can allow multiple instances, view history, configure keyboard shortcuts, adjust the main window's transparency, disable confirmation messages on exit, resume the last visited folders or open the home folder on startup, and enable real-time search, among others.

Evaluation and conclusion

Downloading and conversion tasks were carried out fast while the utility remained light on system resources consumption. No error dialogs popped up and it didn't hang or crash.
All in all, it should meet the requirements of most users, especially thanks to its extensive filetype support. If you're looking for additional features, you can check out the professional edition of the tool, called Ultimate Downloader Pro.