Aimersoft product iTube Studio for Mac

This worked for years and as others report, suddenly died. I fumbled around and ended up with something called VideoDuke, which I kind of like. Not posh. But capable.

The good point is , even though you can't download utube videos anylonger. You can still use it! I downloaded mp3s from soundcloud!

I'm glad in a way that I'm not alone to have this issue. I bought this software years ago for $35, and I've been using it a lot to be able to watch utube videos without adverts. I'm sad to see that the software is not supporting anylonger their customers! Trying out downie that works flawless!

thx all

I have the same problem with itube studio. I reinstalled with a new version, to no avail.

I've noticed that the download button doesn't appear on youtube clips anymore but if you manually paste the url of the youtube video into itube studio it still seems to work.

I have multiple licenses on multiple Macs. All stopped working as of Saturday 7-20-24 after (midnite Fri-Sat) last download was 11:58pm where they all will stall attempting to analyze the video after pasting a URL or using the add-on in a firefox browser. I typically copy & paste URL of videos from multiple browsers, made no difference. I installed a fresh new download version of this software, cleared browser caches, clear all cache using CleanMyMac, restarted, turned off-on, etc. As I said, it occurred on all my installs on multiple Macs ranging from BigSure to Ventura.

Yes, I bought a license just 2 months ago and it's been working very well. I went to use it a week ago and it would no longer download video. I contacted "customer support" and the response I received was "sorry Aimersoft software’s product upgrade and maintenance has been discontinued by the developer. We recommend you purchase this new product from Wondershare. Although the product is called Aimersoft all of my correspondence including the purchase has been through Wondershare.

It seems quite wrong to me that they can sell me a product two months ago then it somehow stops working and I'm directed to purchase a new product. It almost feels as though its been dome on purpose :-) I would at least expect the license to be carried over.

This same has happend to me. I used this application for a few years until the half o July. The Aimersoft support has adviced me to move to a new Wondershare UniConverter without any option for upgrading from iTube Studio. This is a bit distrespectful treatment of a customer who has, after all, purchased a permanent license and it looks like a planned blocking of one app to force users to buy another. We should not accept this. This is a serious abuse.

UPDATE: I also contacted customer support, she informed me they NO LONGER SUPPORT iTubeVideo and they will NO LONGER SUPPORT UPDATING it. Despite purchasing a multi-computer version only a few months ago, they only provide refunds up to 30 days. I may contact my credit card company and file a dispute, giving the short usage given it is a lifetime license and they STILL advertise it to work on Youtube and make no mention it is old legacy product they wont support any updates. She also suggested purchasing Uniconverter. Note that Aimersoft is owned by Wondershare. Also I discovered that for the sites I usually visit ONLY YOUTUBE videos will NO LONGER download, most other website I visit will still download. I SUSPECT YOUTUBE changed something in their file system, preventing iTube Studio from accessing their videos, and since Aimersoft / Wondershare will no longer be updating this particular software, everyone is screwed. I decided to switch to EASEUS and VideoProc. While they dont have a browser add-on like iTube Studio, these will fully download videos from Facebook and Instagram.

Well, about 10 years ago or so, it was iSkySoft, Aimersoft and about three other "companies" selling the exact same product with slightly different logo branding and slightly different UI designs (mainly just colouration variance on teh same basic layout).

At that time their big Mac product was a DRM removal tool for iTunes - and all of those broke on the updates to Sierra or High Sierra at the latest, at which point they were abandoned.

If you go to iSkySoft's website, the main page is all Wondershare Filmora and related products...are these related companies? Did one buy the others? Are they just resellers of some kind? Is there one owner behind iSkySoft, Aimersoft, and whoever else?

Who knows. In my experience, they are in it for the money (not that that is inherently a bad thing), and quick to abandon products as soon as they stop working. They are also not that concerned about long-term customer relationships, so they will rigidly follow whatever policies they have put out (probably for legal liability reasons) and never stray from them. Such as the 30-day refund policy - product stopped working on day 31 because Apple, YouTube, etc, changed something...so sorry, the policy is 30 days.

There are a bunch of alternative software out there. I am using SysCute AllClipDown, which is much cheaper ($9.99 for one month and $29 for lifetime). You can bulk download Youtube videos shorts and playlist. In addition, it is also capable of converting YB videos to MP3.

Wowwww, not so fast, I downloaded that AllClipDown and the first thing it wants me to do is authorise some "python3" command ... is this ok????

Mine still works with other sites, such as CNN