SurFast Video Downloader Reviews

Works very nicely.
Intuitive interface. Well-designed functionality.
Helpful download options.
Happy to recommend it.

I've bought a good amount of deals - many I use daily and many are great. However, this is by far the best value. I bought it for myself and it has everything you want in software: intuitive, easy to use, fast and does the exact thing you bought it for.

I was so tired of using spammy, ad-popup services on the web to download videos. This tool fixes that.

I am currently using SurFast to download client's videos from their former service provider. They kept my client's videos on their own Vimeo channel and is being difficult about allowing them to download them so they have a local copy stored ... for this exact sort of scenario.

Best money you'll spend on AppSumo.

Surfast is the perfect application for downloading multiple videos. It has various options such as download quality, mp3 only, thumbail, you can clip videos, auto get videos from a playlist.

The support is fantastic. There was an issue I had with downloading from youtube. I asked the question on appsumo and got a reply within 1 hour. I then emailed support which took a little bit longer to get back but not too long and they gave me the exact process to fix the problem in simple steps. This worked.

Really impressed with the product and you can't go wrong for the price.

Thanks

Braindump of annoyances after tinkering 15 Minutes only.

- No scripting or automation support.
- "Tracking" is interval based (>= Daily at specific time).
- No dynamic (no rss nor pub/sub) 'realtime' tracking.
- You can either load all videos from a channel (which isn’t practical for large YouTube channels) or paste up to 50 URLs. There’s no way to select one or more specific videos.
- When tracking a channel, the app tries to download every existing video.
- There are no options to set a start date for older videos, avoid fetching past uploads or limiting the amount of past videos to be loaded.
- After adding videos (single or bulk), you can’t change their settings.
- While in `add` mode, it loses your choices frequently.
- About 90% of fetch attempts fail anyway.
- No controls for download quality (minimum or maximum res; only static).
- This is causing errors if the chosen quality doesn’t exist on the remote host. (no options to fallback to next lower available or adhoc conversion for such cases only)
- There’s no built-in player.
- The interface is not intuitive (for example, I’d expect to manage a channel and see videos sorted by newest, select (manually, visible, pages from/to, videos by title containing XYZ / exclude / filter / search / ...).
- The single video that did download doesn’t show its publish date.
- No auto-renaming options (no “smart” nor RegEx-based (auto) renaming like many RSS tools offer). Renaming is manual - for each item.
- No Channel based config overall (e.g. channel specific download folder).
- Everything feels like being all over the place.
- I could list many more issues.

I’m on macOS Tahoe v26.3 (latest).

I don’t understand how this app got so many five-star reviews, given its missing features and unreliability.

Sorry, but this feels like an unfinished MVP and isn’t ready for prime time in its current state.

Handy software for pulling down content that I'd like to store locally. Anytime I've had an issue with the software, their support has been quick to help me resolve it.