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MiniTool Video Converter Upgrade History

MiniTool Video Converter is continuing to innovate and try new things.

View the upgrade history details to find out about previously installed editions of MiniTool Video Converter.

  • 2026
  • 2025
  • 2024
  • 2023
  • 2022
  • 2021
  • 2020

V4.8 (May 12, 2026) Latest Upgrade!!

  • Introduced a new powerful screen recorder to capture your display and camera.
  • Added quick access to video converter or video compressor from other features.
  • Added “Copy URL” and “Go to Source Page” options to the right-click menu for the downloading tasks.
  • Added “Duration”, “Resolution”, “Size”, and “Bitrate” tags to the parameters in the downloading format list.
  • Fixed the bug that the download prompts can’t be displayed completely when the UI was maximized.

V4.7 (Apr. 22, 2026)

  • Added the Video Enhancer feature to increase video resolution, enhance animation clarity, and reduce video grain.
  • Added the “Automatically update download engine” option to ensure synchronization with changes on streaming websites and resolve download failure issues.

V4.6.3 (Mar. 31, 2026)

  • Fixed the bug that YouTube videos can’t be downloaded.

V4.6.2 (Mar. 05, 2026)

  • Fixed the bug that YouTube videos can’t be downloaded.
  • Fixed the bug that software failed to start on Windows 11 25H2 (Build 26200).

V4.6.1 (Feb. 05, 2026)

  • Fixed the bug that YouTube videos can’t be downloaded.

V4.6 (Jan. 23, 2026)

  • Resolved issues such as error 429, error 403, and bot errors that occur due to high download frequency.
  • Support downloading private, members-only, and age-restricted videos.
  • Optimized the video download pop-up window to clearly show your used and remaining free quota.

V4.5 (Sep. 30, 2025)

  • Transcribe speech to text with AI models, enabling font, size, color, and position edit for extracted video subtitles.
  • Fixed video downloading failure due to destination address exceeds 260 characters.
  • Fixed video parsing error: Request Entity Too large.

V4.4 (Aug. 26, 2025)

  • Support modifying the parameters, such as encoding, resolution, frame rate, etc., for video compression.
  • Download MP3 from YouTube in 128kbps, 256kbps, or 320kbps.
  • Download a single clip or the whole playlist from a YouTube playlist link.
  • Fixed the bug that MiniTool Video Converter 4.3 could not import audio-only MP4 files.
  • Fixed the bug that the software failed to download Facebook MP3 files.

V4.3 (Jul. 02, 2025)

  • Compress videos without losing quality.
  • New launcher look & optimized user interface.
  • Added log file entry to menu.
  • Fixed some bugs.

V4.2 (Jun. 03, 2025)

  • Support saving videos from Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter.
  • Support saving YouTube playlists in WAV format.
  • Added dark theme.
  • Fixed some bugs.

V4.1 (Apr. 08, 2025)

  • Support downloading audio in WAV format.
  • Fixed the bug that the software may fail to launch.
  • Fixed the bug that the available video/audio download formats had a file size of 0 MB.

V4.0 (Apr. 01, 2025)

  • New UI design with clear and intuitive interactions.
  • Show the bitrate of an audio file in conversion tasks.
  • Support downloading 4K/8K videos.
  • Support pausing and resuming downloads.
  • Support resuming interrupted downloads instead of starting over.
  • Support specifying the resolution/bitrate for video/audio downloads from a playlist.
  • Support searching for recorded files with file name.
  • Fixed the bug that the converted video codec doesn’t match your previous settings.

V3.8.1 (Jan. 26, 2025)

  • Fixed the bug that videos can’t be downloaded.

V3.8 (Nov. 05, 2024)

  • Newly added “Select All” option for downloading YouTube playlist videos.
  • Fixed the bug that only one video could be downloaded when there were several videos sharing the same name in a YouTube playlist.
  • Fixed the bug that software failed to download videos in WEBM format or with a resolution higher than 1080P.
  • Fixed the bug that the available video download resolutions duplicated.
  • Fixed the bug that the converted media files couldn’t be saved on desktop.
  • Fixed the bug that the “Convert All” option is unusable after importing media files.

V3.7 (Sep. 19, 2024)

  • Support downloading YouTube Shorts videos.
  • Fixed the bug that video conversion failed because the computer didn’t support hardware acceleration.
  • Fixed the bug that some YouTube videos couldn’t be played within the software.
  • Fixed the bug that users couldn’t log into their YouTube account in the software.

V3.6 (Aug. 09, 2024)

  • Improved conversion speed by enabling hardware acceleration.
  • Support to convert videos encoded with AV1.
  • The default frame rate is set to 30fps when converting videos to MP4.
  • Fixed the issue that video conversion stuck at 2%.
  • Fixed the issue that the aspect ratio changes when converting 9:16 videos.

V3.5 (Jun. 19, 2024)

  • Support to record 4K computer screens.
  • Support to record videos in MP4 (H264) at 50fps, 30fps, 25fps, 20fps, and 15fps.
  • Support to record videos of high, standard, or original quality.
  • Reduce CPU resource usage and keep it below 10%.
  • UI optimization and bug fixes.

V3.4 (Nov. 07, 2023)

  • Speed up the process of fetching specific video details for download.
  • Optimized the format settings window for batch video conversion.
  • Optimized the in-app purchase window.

V3.3.1 (Sep. 19, 2023)

  • Fixed: After clicking the download button, there is a significant delay before the software enters the format selection interface.
  • Continuously improved the speed of downloading YouTube videos.

V3.3 (Jul. 11, 2023)

  • New subscription plan added.
  • Fixed the bug that the software cannot start normally due to special installation path.

V3.2 (Jul. 29, 2022)

  • Integrate MiniTool MovieMaker.
  • Some bug fixes.

V3.1.3 (Jun. 15, 2022)

  • Completely resolved the 429 error when downloading videos.
  • Continuously improved the speed of downloading YouTube videos.

V3.1 (Aug. 11, 2021)

  • Fix the bug that the duration of the converted files are incorrect.
  • Optimize video/audio conversion speed.

V3.0.4 (Jun. 21, 2021)

  • Completely resolved the 404 error when downloading videos.
  • Fix the bug that the program failed to launch on Windows 7 32-bit operating system.
  • Allow users to download a single video or the entire playlist when it comes to watched/liked videos.

V3.0.3 (May 21, 2021)

  • Select the video link in the address bar with one click.
  • Fix the bug that the software reported 404 error when trying to download.
  • Fix the bug that the software stuck at 2% when converting videos with audios to videos without audios.
  • Fix the bug that the playlist was not showing completely when too many videos were included.
  • Fix the bug that some videos could not be added to the Download History section.

V3.0.2 (Apr. 26, 2021)

  • Optimize playlist download speed.
  • Download all the videos in a playlist.
  • Keep users’ customized settings after software upgrade.
  • Fix incomplete subtitle download.
  • Fix the bug that no videos are selected in the playlist but the download button calculates all.
  • Fix the bug that the playlist to be downloaded is inconsistent with the search result.

V3.0.0 (Jan. 26, 2021)

  • Available in Japanese.
  • Add a Screen Record feature.
  • Add upgrade interface displaying the upgrade content.
  • Fix the bug that the file duration is incorrect after conversion.
  • Fix the bug that the actual size of the converted file is inconsistent with the estimated size.

V2.1.0 (Aug. 17, 2020)

  • Fixes an issue where audio format conversion could be failed.
  • Fixes an issue where 4K to 1080P conversion could be failed.
  • Fixes an issue where video to SWF conversion could be failed.
  • Adds download history of YouTube video.

V2.0.0 (Jun. 29, 2020)

  • Batch convert audio and video files into different file types.
  • Convert videos for playback on popular devices like Apple, Samsung, Huawei smartphones.
  • Download YouTube videos and subtitles.