Since YouTube began life back in 2005 it has become a hugely popular site for uploading, sharing and viewing videos across the web. Its importance is seen in the fact that Google paid $1.65 billion for it in 2006 and also that the most viewed videos on the site can easily attract over 200 millions views.

While the site's interface is very easy to use the one thing it doesn't offer you is the chance to download the video and convert it to a format which you can use on a device other than your PC. With this in mind there are a fair number of YouTube Downloaders around, most of very similar and offering the same sort of service to the same kind of standard.

If you are looking for a basic tool which lets you downloads videos from YouTube and then convert them to any one of a number of different formats then you will be pretty happy with this free offer. We have chosen this one because it is free - which we always like - and because it has a pretty simple interface and doesn't take up too much room on your computer.

All you have to do it put the YouTube link into your clipboard and then hit the dialogue box. From there you choose 'ok' and the chosen video begins to download. One you have it downloaded safely another left click will let you choose what type of file to convert it to. Your choices are MP3, Xvid, WMV, AVI, mobile phone, iPhone, iPod and PSP. While you are converting you can choose to get rid of the sound and do a little light video editing.

You can download both HD and HQ format videos and you can get videos from sites other than YouTube - Facebook, Vevo etc.

This is one of the least complicated and most basic of the YouTube downloaders around, and if you want something bigger and more in your face then a quick look online will show you that you have plenty of options. If you are happy with the idea of a fairly basic tool which let you do the simple things without thinking about it too much then you should give this one a try.