Let's get yourdownload unstuck.

1. Press Download on this site. Or open the latest GitHub release and download GrabClip_<version>_x64-setup.exe under Assets.
2. Run the installer and complete the setup. It installs for your user only, so no admin permission is needed.
3. Open GrabClip from the Windows Start menu.

Windows shows a blue "Windows protected your PC" screen? That is explained in Windows says it protected your PC.

Your first download takes a few steps. You don't need to install Python or use a command line.

1. Open GrabClip, press Add download, choose the source tab and paste the link.
2. Press Analyze link or Enter. Check the title, source, duration and estimated size.
3. Choose the content type, quality and format, then press Next.
4. Where available, choose subtitles, thumbnail, fast download or a specific time range.
5. Press Download. Follow the progress in Downloads. Finished files appear in Library.

Content: Video + Audio, Video only, or Audio only.

Quality: Best (no limit), 4K, 1440p, 1080p, 720p, 480p, 360p or 144p, where the video offers it. For audio you can choose Best, MP3, AAC, OPUS or FLAC.

Format: WEBM keeps the original file from the site with no conversion. MP4 converts it. Step 2 shows an estimated size so you know what to expect.

Some old players cannot play MP4 files that hold VP9 or AV1 video. Try VLC or the built-in player.

Paste up to 50 links in the link box, one per line. Pressing Ctrl+V outside a text box or dragging a link onto the window also opens Add download with the links filled in.

GrabClip analyzes them one by one, and they share the quality and format you choose. Links that fail are skipped and counted. Each link becomes its own download, without course or time-range options.

1. Paste the playlist link in Add download. For YouTube playlist links, This is a playlist switches on by itself.
2. Press Analyze link. In step 2, type a Course folder name. Lessons are saved as 01, 02, 03 and so on.
3. Choose quality and format, then press Download. The lessons appear in Library, grouped under the course folder.

In Library, each course folder shows how many lessons it has and how many you have watched, with a small progress bar. A lesson is marked watched when you reach about 90 percent of it, or when you choose Mark as watched in its preview.

In Library, press the small refresh button next to the course name. GrabClip checks the playlist again and opens Add download with only the lessons you do not have yet, in the same course folder. Numbering continues from the playlist position.

Courses saved before this feature existed have no playlist link, so they show no refresh button.

Some videos need you to be signed in to the source website, for example Facebook private groups, Instagram and some YouTube videos. GrabClip can use a cookies.txt file exported from your own browser to reach content your account can see.

1. Sign in to the website in your browser.
2. Install the free extension Get cookies.txt LOCALLY for Chrome, Edge or Brave, or for Firefox.
3. Open the extension on that website and press Export. Export only the site you need.
4. In GrabClip, open Settings, Cookies, Import and pick the file.

GrabClip also shows a short guide in Bangla or English. It opens by itself the first time, and later from Settings, Cookies, How to get cookies.txt. A red dot on Settings reminds you while no cookies are imported.

Open Settings, Cookies. Replace imports a newer file. Remove deletes the cookies from your PC at any time. The list below shows each site and how many days of login are left, or "no login found".

If a download fails with a sign-in or bot-check message, export fresh cookies and import them again with Settings, Cookies, Replace.

If the message says the page needs to be reloaded, the cookies are old or broken. Remove them, or import fresh ones. If a whole site has stopped working, update yt-dlp as well.

Press the round button at the start of a row to pause a queued or running download. Press it again to resume. Partial files are kept, so a download continues where it stopped. The queue is saved, so waiting downloads come back after you restart the app.

On the Downloads page, press Study on the Current speed card. Each press cycles through Off, 500 KB/s, 1 MB/s and 2 MB/s. The limit applies to downloads that start after the change, and when the Night scheduler has its own limit, the smaller one wins.

1. Add the downloads you want to the queue.
2. Press Set up on the Night scheduler card (or Schedule on the Queue page).
3. Choose the start time, what happens when the queue finishes (Do nothing, Sleep or Shut down) and an optional speed limit.
4. Press Start schedule.

Keep GrabClip open while it waits. Windows is kept from falling asleep until the schedule starts. A shut down gives you a 60 second countdown to cancel.

Turn on Fast download in the last step of Add download. It uses several connections at once for video downloads. Also check that Study mode and the Night scheduler speed limit are off. Actual speed depends on your network and on the source website.

Finished downloads are in Library. Press the folder icon or Show in folder to open Windows Explorer with the file selected. New files are saved to the folder chosen in Settings, General, which is your Downloads folder by default.

Avoid OneDrive and "Controlled folder access" locations, because Windows can block saving files there.

Open a video in the built-in player, type in Note at this time and press Add note. Each note keeps its time. Click the time to jump back to that moment. Notes are saved for each video.

In Library, press the subtitles button inside the search box to search inside videos. Results are grouped by video, with the time and the matching text. Click one to open the player at that second.

This works only for videos that have subtitles and were downloaded with GrabClip. Older downloads have no searchable text, and GrabClip does not turn speech into text.

Open a finished video in Library and choose Make smaller copy (480p) or Extract audio (MP3). The new file is saved next to the original, and the original is never overwritten. It runs one at a time, and not while a download is running.

1. Connect your phone and PC to the same Wi-Fi network.
2. In Library, open a finished video and press Send to phone.
3. Scan the QR code with your phone camera. If Windows asks, allow GrabClip on private networks.
4. Press Stop sharing when you are done. The link also stops working after 10 minutes.

Make sure the phone and PC are on the same Wi-Fi network, and allow GrabClip in the Windows Firewall prompt on private networks. If more than ten minutes have passed, start sharing again to get a new link.

Open Settings, Updates, Update yt-dlp. Websites change often, and this fixes many "this site stopped working" problems without a new version of GrabClip. GrabClip also checks by itself and shows a red dot on Settings when a newer version is available.

If the problem stays, report it with the error details. Never attach your cookies file.

GrabClip looks for a new version when it starts and shows the release notes with three choices: Skip, Download and install or Download from GitHub. With Download and install, the app downloads the installer, checks its signature, installs it and restarts. Your settings, history and library are kept.

You can also check by hand in Settings, Updates, Check for updates, or run the new installer over the old one. An install waits while a download is running or a night schedule is set.

The installer is not signed with a paid Windows certificate yet, so SmartScreen warns about it. Compare its SHA-256 hash with the one on the GitHub release page, then choose More info, Run anyway. The full explanation is on the Download page.

Some security programs flag installers that bundle yt-dlp and FFmpeg. Check the SHA-256 hash against the official release first, and look into any detection you cannot explain before you run the file.

Use a normal folder, not one inside OneDrive and not a "Controlled folder access" location. Change it in Settings, General, Change.

The built-in player plays MP4 (H.264), WebM and similar files. For anything else, use Show in folder and open the file in another player. Some MP4 files hold VP9 or AV1 video that old players cannot play. VLC handles them.

Settings, history, the saved queue, player notes and cookies are stored in %APPDATA%\GrabClip. Downloaded files go to your output folder. Uninstalling GrabClip does not touch your downloaded videos.

Your cookies file is your logged-in session. Never share it, post it in an issue, or leave it visible in a screenshot. Remove it from Settings, Cookies, Remove when you no longer need it. Cookies stay on your PC, and GrabClip has no server it could send them to.