What 4K Video Downloader's free tier actually limits
The vendor never publishes the number. Here is what the pricing page does and does not say, checked against their own site, and how to answer the question without installing anything.
You want to know how many videos the free version lets you download before it stops. It is a reasonable question and there is no answer on the website.
I checked on 2026-07-31: the pricing page, the product page and the how-to
pages. The wording is always “quantity limitations” or “basic features”.
Never a number. The /compare-plans URL returns 404.
That is the finding, and it is worth more than a number I would have had to invent.
What the pricing page does say
Four tiers, verified from their own pricing page:
| Tier | Price | Described as |
|---|---|---|
| Starter | Free, permanent | “Permanent access to basic features. No trial period. No card data entry.” |
| Lite | €18 / year | “Personal use. Annual subscription to the main features.” |
| Personal | €30 / lifetime | “Personal use. Permanent access to main features.” |
| Pro | €64, shown at €48 / lifetime | “Professional use. Commercial use permit.” |
And their own FAQ: “a permanent free version that allows users to download videos and audio with quantity limitations.”
Two things to take from that.
The free tier is permanent, not a trial. No card, no expiry. That is better than most of this category offers and it deserves saying.
The limit is never quantified. So the only way to learn where the wall is is to install the app and hit it.
The numbers floating around
Searching turns up “10 per day” and “30 per day”. The only place I found either on the vendor’s own site is in user reviews on the pricing page — one asks them to restore “30 videos instead of 10”.
That is hearsay. It suggests the limit has changed at least once, which is itself the reason not to trust any figure you read, including a figure I could have put in this article to make it more satisfying.
If you need the exact current number: install it, and the app will tell you when you reach it. That is not a good answer. It is the true one.
Is the paid version worth it?
Setting the free tier aside, the honest case for 4K Video Downloader Plus is not really about limits.
It is cross-platform. macOS, Windows and Linux. Downie and Pulltube are Mac only, and so is my app. If you move between a Mac and a Windows machine, that is a real reason to choose it that nothing else on this page can answer.
€30 lifetime is a fair price for a tool you use weekly, and it is a one-time purchase rather than a subscription — though note that Lite at €18/year is a subscription, and costs more than Personal after two years. Personal is the sensible tier for a personal user; the only thing Lite buys is a lower number today.
The Pro tier’s commercial-use permit is a licensing thing, not a features thing. If you download for a client or an employer, that is the row that matters and no free tool gives you an equivalent.
What is advertised: playlists, channels and search results; Watch Later, Liked and private playlists; up to 8K; subtitles as SRT in 50+ languages; Shorts, Gaming and Kids; and AI audio processing — vocal isolation, echo removal, background-music removal.
The AI audio features are genuinely differentiating and nothing free does them in one click. If you want the vocals out of a track, that is a real reason to pay.
The free alternatives, and their limits
Every tool has limits. The useful comparison is what kind.
yt-dlp — no quantity limit at all, ever. Its limits are different in kind: it is a command line, and YouTube’s rate limiting will stop you at a few hundred videos in a session regardless of what software you use. That is YouTube’s limit, not the tool’s, and it applies equally to 4K Video Downloader Plus’s paid tiers.
brew install yt-dlp ffmpeg
yt-dlp "URL"
Playlists, channels, subtitles in any language, 8K where it exists — all of it, with no tier. The cost is that you are typing format selectors rather than clicking.
TBD — mine. Free with no limits and no tiers, and much narrower: YouTube only, Apple Silicon only, macOS 13+. If you need Vimeo or a Windows machine, it is not a candidate.
cobalt — web-based, no ads, no tracking, nothing to install. Right answer for one video right now.
How to decide without installing anything
- You use Windows or Linux too → 4K Video Downloader Plus, Personal at €30. Nothing else here follows you across platforms.
- You want vocal isolation or the AI audio tools → same, and it is the only one that does them.
- You download for work → the Pro tier, for the commercial-use permit.
- You are on a Mac and only use YouTube → a free tool has no limit to hit.
- You need many sites on a Mac → Downie is the better paid buy, unless cross-platform matters.
- One video, right now → cobalt, in a browser.
The wider point
A free tier that does not say where it ends is a marketing decision, not an oversight. It works because the limit is discovered after installation, once you have already put your links in.
None of which makes the paid product bad — €30 lifetime and a permanent free tier with no card required is a more honest structure than most of this category, and considerably more honest than the ad-funded online downloaders.
It just means the question you came here with cannot be answered from outside, and anyone who gives you a confident number is repeating a forum post.
More: a free Downie alternative, what Pulltube is really selling, and the free Mac downloaders, honestly.