HD Video Downloader

Name: HD Video Downloader
Rating: 4.50334672021419 (1494 reviews)
Author: Sarah Hill

Chrome app to download any video. HD Video Downloader powers up Chrome browser with download utility for the most video formats

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HD Video Downloader is a fast and powerful Chrome extension that lets you download online videos from a wide range of popular websites. This advanced tool supports many video formats and is designed for easy saving and offline viewing. It features a user-friendly interface including a dark theme option.

With HD Video Downloader, you can collect music videos, funny clips, tutorials, and fitness workouts to watch anytime without internet access. It enhances your browsing by allowing instant downloads from major video sources—but note it does not support YouTube or Vimeo downloads due to platform policies. Always ensure you have the right to download the content you save.

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By:

Sarah Hill

Users:

100,000

Rating:

4.50

(1,494)

Version:

2.2.9 Last updated: 2025-02-04

Creation date:

2021-03-17

Risk:

Permissions:

downloads
storage
webRequest
declarativeNetRequest

Host permissions:

*:\/\/*\/*

Size:

1.57MB

Email:

sc*****@gmail.com

Full description:

Source:

Chrome Web Store

Data ingested on:

2025-07-16

Ranking

# 1,403 ▲ 1

Other rankings

#124 in Entertainment ▲ 1 #41 in vimeo keyword 33 ▲ 7 #175 in video downloader extension keyword 83 ▲ #275 in fastest way keyword 26 ▲

User reviews

Users consistently report that the HD Video Downloader extension often fails to detect videos across various sites including YouTube and Instagram, frequently displaying misleading messages that no videos are available. Despite having an intuitive interface, the extension lacks functional download capabilities, making it ineffective and frustrating to use. Many consider it a waste of time due to its unreliability and poor performance on multiple streaming platforms.

Pros

Intuitive user interface.

Cons

Fails to detect videos on many popular sites including YouTube and Instagram.
Shows messages like 'Nothing to download here' even when videos are playing.
Does not provide functional download options despite video detection claims.
Overall ineffective and considered a waste of time by many users.
Many users report it does not work on streaming sites and other common platforms.

Recent reviews

Era bom. De uns 3 meses pra cá, não detecta mais nem video do Insta

H3*****, 2025-05-26

When I play a video on YouTube, it says, "Nothing to download here." Could you please fix this? That's not true. There is a video playing, and I refreshed my page, but the extension still says nothing to download here. Thank you.

Al*****, 2025-05-26

Useless. A dozen different sites, no videos detected at all. Just a waste of time.

Ji*****, 2025-04-14

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Extension safety

Risk impact

Risk impact measures the level of extra permissions an extension has access to. A low risk impact extension cannot do much harms, whereas a high risk impact extension can do a lot of damage like stealing your password, bypassing your security settings, and accessing your personal data. High risk impact extensions are not necessarily malicious. However, if they do turn malicious, they can be very harmful.

HD Video Downloader requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk impact analysis details

High Allows the extension to observe and analyze traffic in flight for the selected hosts.
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Risk likelihood

Risk likelihood measures the probability that a Chrome extension may turn malicious. This is determined by the publisher and the Chrome extension reputation on Chrome Web Store, the amount of time the Chrome extension has been around, and other signals about the Chrome extension. Our algorithms are not perfect, and are subject to change as we discover new ways to detect malicious extensions. We recommend that you always exercise caution when installing a Chrome extension.

HD Video Downloader has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.

Risk likelihood analysis details

High This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.
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