
You can purchase a single-use personal license for $19.95, though that doesn’t guarantee you access to new versions of the app. While watching YouTube videos is free - thanks to ads that appear far too often - Airy is not. The app’s usefulness comes with a cost, though.

It’ll be awfully hard for someone to get confused using Airy. There’s a drop-down box for you to choose the file type you want for your download, an empty box for you to paste a YouTube URL into, and a “Download” button. Airy doesn’t have a whole lot of options or settings bogging things down. Do you just need a low-bitrate 3GP file? Airy’s got you covered.Īiry can even download a YouTube video as an MP3, should you just want the sound without all of that fancy shmancy video.Īnd the process is entirely simple. Do you want to pull a video down as a high-quality 1080p MP4 file? Airy can do it. It downloads videos from YouTube, and it does it in a variety of formats. The task Airy performs is simple yet immensely valuable. It’s called Airy, and it’s available now for Windows and macOS. I could go on and on about why I hate this, but the truth is, I already found a way around it - and a way to basically recreate the YouTube Premium experience without having to pay YouTube a single cent. If I switch apps on my iPad, playback stops. YouTube doesn’t support background video sound without paying for something called YouTube Premium. And more often than not, those videos live on YouTube.īut here’s the rub. I do this primarily on my iPad, because occasionally, I’ll watch the video version of a podcast. The small ones that you might’ve never heard of, like Tandem Legends (a podcast about the Legend of Zelda series). And I’m almost always playing a video game podcast in the background while I work.
