What people ask most often about downloading YouTube thumbnails, videos and transcripts with Grabdeck.
Yes — that is what Grabdeck is built for. Give it a list of links and one run saves the cover images, the video files and the captions as readable script text. Most downloaders give you only the video file, so you end up chasing the thumbnail and the subtitles separately.
Add the video links, pick the subtitle languages you want, and Grabdeck saves the captions as plain script text — merged into one file per language, with the timecodes stripped out. You can paste the result straight into a document without cleaning it up first.
Yes. Paste a batch of video, Shorts or channel URLs and Grabdeck works through the whole list. Run it again in the same folder and it skips anything it already downloaded, so you never fetch the same video twice.
Select the videos you are interested in and save their cover images to a folder in one go, rather than right-clicking each one in a browser. It is the quickest way to collect a set of thumbnails when you are studying which images earn clicks.
It depends entirely on the content and on where you are. Downloading a video you own, one in the public domain, or one the rights holder has given you permission to save is generally fine; downloading someone else's copyrighted work without permission is not. Grabdeck is a general purpose tool and does not grant you any rights — confirming you may download something is your responsibility, and you should check it before each download. The app does not bypass DRM, and we neither host nor redistribute any content.
Yes, on Apple Silicon Macs (M1 and later) as well as on Windows 10 or later. Both builds are verified on real hardware. macOS will ask you to confirm the first launch because the app is not signed by Apple — right-click it and choose Open.
An .mp4 for each video, the cover image for each thumbnail you saved, one merged transcript file per subtitle language, and a .tsv spreadsheet listing everything from that run. The spreadsheet opens directly in Google Sheets or Excel.
Grabdeck waits 20 to 40 seconds between videos on purpose. Pulling a lot of files back to back gets throttled by YouTube, so the pauses are what keep a long batch running to the end. Slow and steady progress is normal, not a fault.
A license covers one device at a time. If you move to a new machine, email skykstarfam@gmail.com and we will reset it for you, usually within 24–48 hours on business days.
Browser-based sites handle one video at a time, rarely give you the subtitles in usable form, and never give you the thumbnail. Grabdeck runs on your own computer, takes a whole list at once, and returns all three — images, video and script — in a single pass, with a spreadsheet of what it fetched.
$4.99 per month, billed automatically, for one device. You can cancel at any time and keep access until the end of the period you already paid for. Billing and refunds run through sales partner as merchant of record.
Something not answered here? Email skykstarfam@gmail.com — within 24–48 hours on business days.