# YouTube Shorts Downloader > Download YouTube Shorts videos by link: paste the URL of any public Short and get an MP4 with its original sound. Free, no watermark, no login. Audio only? Try Shorts to MP3. Canonical: https://faceless.so/tools/youtube-shorts-downloader Free tool Save any public YouTube Short as an MP4 in up to 1080p. Paste the link, get the file. Free, no watermark, no login, nothing to install. ## Download a YouTube Short Paste a Shorts link, or any public YouTube video under 15 minutes, and we'll fetch the MP4. Works with youtube.com/shorts, youtube.com/watch and youtu.be links from public videos. Free for personal use. 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Re-uploading someone else's Short as your own is not, and it is the one use YouTube's systems are specifically built to detect. If you are downloading Shorts to study a format you want to compete with, that pattern is worth naming: the format is the reusable part, not the file. ## Frequently asked questions Everything about downloading YouTube Shorts ### How do I download a YouTube Short? Open the Short, tap Share and choose Copy link, then paste that link above and click Download video. We fetch the highest quality MP4 YouTube serves for that Short and send it straight to your device. ### Does the download have a watermark? No. YouTube does not burn a watermark into Shorts the way TikTok does, so what you get is the file as uploaded. The only exception is a watermark the creator added themselves before uploading, which is part of the picture and cannot be removed. ### What quality will I get? Up to 1080p, which is the resolution ceiling for the vast majority of Shorts. We ask for the best available MP4 up to that height and fall back to the next best if the Short was uploaded at a lower resolution. ### Can I download regular YouTube videos too? Yes. Any public youtube.com or youtu.be link under 15 minutes works, not just /shorts/ URLs. Longer videos are rejected to keep the free tool fast for everyone. ### Does it work on iPhone and Android? Yes, it runs entirely in the browser with nothing to install. On iPhone the MP4 lands in Files rather than the camera roll by default; open it from there and use Share, then Save Video, to move it into Photos. ### Can I re-upload a downloaded Short to my own channel? Not without permission. Re-uploading someone else's Short is the fastest route to a copyright strike, and YouTube's reused-content rules can block monetisation on a channel built that way. Download for reference and study; make original videos to post. ## More free tools [YouTube Shorts to MP3 Want only the sound? 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