Last updated on 12 May 2026
YouTube is the largest video hosting platform in the world. The service has more than 1 billion users, almost a third of internet users worldwide. Excuse me very little.
The service is a veritable mine of educational resources of all kinds even if the platform itself is rather unsuitable for use with a young audience. However, many tools rely on YouTube’s massive shelving to deliver tailored services. Here is a selection of three online tools that will allow you to take advantage of the videos on YouTube.
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Conv
Conv helps to meet a recurring need that you may have faced one day. How to Recover a Video Present on YouTube. How to save it to your hard drive so that you can watch it without an internet connection or the U.S. website interface. The simplest answer is Conv.
The use is simple. Retrieve the URL of the video you want to download and add conv before YouTube. This gives us for a video at the URL: https://youtube.com/mavideo — ) https://convyoutube.com/mavideo As soon as the service shows you three buttons that will allow you to recover the video in MP4 format. You can also recover only the sound in Mp3 format or create a GIF. Magical.
Link: Conv
ViewPure
Watch the videos and just the videos. ViewPure I talked about right here is amazing for that. He knows how to sort and offers you a clean interface for sharing or showing pollution-free video of any kind. And on YouTube this is not what is missing.
There is sometimes pervasive advertising, there are comments found under the sometimes completely inappropriate videos, there are also recommended videos on the right column that at best incentivise surfing and harm concentration and at worst offer adult videos. Here too, the use of this small utility is easy to understand. Simply copy and paste the URL of the video you want to clean into the ViewPure interface.
The tool also offers an extension for your very convenient web browser. When you are on a YouTube video, simply click on the small ViewPure button to access the clean interface.
Link: ViewPure
MusicXMatch Lyrics
The third tool in this list is an extension for the Chrome browser. Once installed, your computer will turn into a great Karaoke box or more seriously for French or English language teachers. a huge bank of song lyrics.
Once installed, the extension will display song lyrics on music video clips on YouTube. Great for learning English by humming the lyrics of the hits of the moment. Your students will love it. Once the extension is installed, a small coloured button appears underneath the YouTube video. One click and the lyrics of the songs appear as subtitles. More than 7 million titles in more than 30 languages are available.
Link: MusicXMatch
If these tools have been useful to you, you can also take a look at this other page that lists simple tools for Watch and share YouTube videos without ads and without distractions.
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Thank you very much Fidel, these 3 tools will be very very valuable! All 3 require google chrome, right?
Conv doesn't work for me 🙁
MusicXMatch Lyrics is a fantastic tool! I have just installed and tested it, it is great. Thank you, thank you, thank you! My FLE students will love 🙂