PodTube Review: Dowload Flash Videos for Less

Posted by Henry Hayes on 05/12/07 in Applications, Video, Web

PodTube Icon PodTube by djodjodesign is a fairly new competitor in the growing market of applications that allow you to download flash videos (i.e. Youtube) to your iPod. Like the others, PodTube is certainly a one-trick-pony, but it does its job with an elegant and simple interface, which I like. Also, probably the greatest selling points of the application is its dirt cheap price. PodTube sells for just $5.

Downloading videos with PodTube is super simple. Just open the video you want to download from Youtube, Dailymotion, Myspace, or any other. Now open PodTube and click “Get video.” That’s really it. The video will be added to iTunes, from which you can add it to your iPod or export to a location of your choosing.

PodTube in Action

According to their website the version 2.0 - 2.1 changes include:

Now you can use any download folder in Safari (not necessarily the Desktop)
Dailymotion and Vids.myspace support, plus YouTube
Sleek new interface, with a simple, floating window
3 encoding quality levels
Dual / Quad core optimized encoding
FLV2 support
Ability to cancel process at any time
Remember settings

To see if this is something you might use check out the PodTube page for a trial version that is fully featured, but allows you to save just 5 videos.

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Vineet Jain said on

May 12th, 2007 at 8:16 am

Youtube Player lets you search, download and play Youtube videos on your webpage. Developed as a Google Gadget this can be embedded anywhere. It is worth a peek!.

http://padmanijain.googlepages.com/myexperiments.html

Jack said on

May 12th, 2007 at 11:40 am

FLVR does this exact same thing - downloads to itunes, extremely simple interface , and completely integrated with Safari (a nice little button next to the Refresh, Add Bookmark, and address bar)

Best of all, it does if for free…

Bruce Anderson said on

May 12th, 2007 at 5:28 pm

Interesting, but I’m content to take the DIY route:

Firefox + GreaseMonkey + YouTube download script + iSquint = 100% free. There’s no automatic conversion (though I suppose you could set up an automator action) but there really doesn’t need to be.

Julian said on

May 12th, 2007 at 10:22 pm

i used to use this for 1.0 it was great and looked beautiful but only safari support= however i kept it and upgraded to 2.0 and kept getting several annoying error pop up boxes once i ran the app sooooo i switched to TubeSock and no problems today and all i need is the URL of the vid =

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Joe said on

May 14th, 2007 at 9:31 pm

this is sweet

Ken Jones said on

October 26th, 2007 at 1:57 am

I am MYSTIFIED why this broken, non-working, malfunctioning, inoperative (do I need to go on?), software is so widely advertised. Take heed- this software does NOT work and you get to pay for the privelage to find out for yourself. Sure… it’s only 5 bucks… but fraud is fraud. With sites such as MacAppr pumping this piece of C***.. I’m sure someone is getting very rich without supplying any useful service in return.