Tooble: get YouTube videos on iPod, iPhone, AppleTV

by Todd Ritter on January 16, 2008 at 11:00 AM


There are other programs that can download videos from YouTube for Apple devices, but Tooble requires only a few clicks to do the entire process of download, convert, and copy to iTunes. Tooble is free for Mac 10.4+ and requires a (free) install of Perian for the conversion work.

To use Tooble, either enter a YouTube video URL or use one of the helpful sidebar options like "Popular Videos," "Highest Rated," or even "Your Favorites" which Tooble finds if you enter your YouTube username into the preferences.

You can also search YouTube from within Tooble, so you don't have to go find a video's URL from YouTube to put back into Tooble. When you start the download, Tooble queues the item and will start to download the video. The video is then converted and copied to your iTunes Movies library so that it can be synced with your iPod, iPhone, or AppleTV (although AppleTV supports YouTube directly).

Tags: appletv, freeware, iphone, ipod, video, youtube