YouTube Shorts Downloader

Shorts move fast and leave your feed just as quickly. Paste the Shorts link into ClipSaves and keep the ones worth keeping — the tool recognizes a Shorts URL automatically and returns the vertical file as it was uploaded.

Nothing installs, no account is needed, and the flow is identical on a phone and a desktop: paste, Fetch, Download.

Save what you have the right to save. A public Short is not a license to republish someone else's work.

Step 1 — Open the Short in the YouTube app or on youtube.com.

Step 2 — Tap Share, then Copy link. On desktop, copying the address bar works just as well.

Step 3 — Paste it into the box above and press Fetch. ClipSaves finds the best-quality version of the Short.

Step 4 — Press Download to save the MP4.

The short-form address youtube.com/shorts/VIDEO_ID is the usual one, and it resolves here.

So do the other forms YouTube hands out for the same video: a normal watch link (youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID) and a youtu.be share link. They all point at the same video ID, which is what matters.

What cannot be fetched: private and unlisted videos you do not have the link for, members-only content, and anything age-restricted behind a sign-in. YouTube serves those only to an authenticated session, and ClipSaves never asks for your Google login.

Shorts are vertical, normally 1080x1920, and they download in exactly that shape — nothing is cropped or padded on our side.

Files arrive as MP4 with the audio inside, which plays on any phone, TV or desktop and imports into CapCut, Premiere Pro, Final Cut or DaVinci Resolve without conversion.

Quality depends on the upload, and ClipSaves always picks the best version available. A Short filmed on a recent phone usually comes back in 1080p; older or heavily compressed uploads come back lower. We do not re-encode, so there is no second round of compression.