The best Amazon Prime Video downloaders - free and paid

Last updated: March 25th 2021

Each month the well-known streaming Amazon Prime Video presents new series, movies and documentaries that many people around the world enjoy watching. The problem is that your favorite movie will not always be available on Amazon Prime because the content is updated regularly. What can you do in order to be able to watch your favorite videos again and again? You can record them with an Amazon Video downloader tool. As various manufacturers offer their tools on the internet, we have searched for the best ones and will compare their pros and cons in this article. 

Audials Movie offers users many features so that they can easily capture Amazon Prime Video and watch the movies or series later. 

The Amazon Prime downloader enables you to save videos in HD and automatically in the optimal frame rate. If you activate the GPU encoding, Audials Movie will use the maximum performance of your computer to provide a high quality video that you will enjoy. After the video is recorded, the tool will automatically search for movie tags. 

If you do not want to watch the video while it is recorded, then save time! You can play it back and record it in 2x speed. With the batch recording function Audials Movie will save all movies you desire for you overnight. 

Furthermore, Audials Movie is not just for Amazon Prime. You can also use it for your Hulu, Netflix, Disney+ or other subscriptions. 

You are skeptical when some manufacturers of recording tools ask you to enter your Amazon Video login data into their software? Then don’t worry! Audials Movie will not ask you for your credentials because you can play back Amazon Prime in your browser, as usually. 

Please note that Audials Movie only supports Chrome, Firefox and Edge, but not other browsers like Opera. The tool can be used only with Windows or Apple (via Parallels). You can purchase Audials Movie with a 14 days money-back guarantee. 

You need a very easy-to-use Amazon Prime recording tool? The screen recorder EaseUs RecExperts is the right pick for you. You can decide whether you record the entire screen or only a part of it. With EaseUs RecExperts you can also zoom and use the other additional features (which are, however, less interesting for Amazon Prime videos like the recording of mouse cursor movements). 

A great disadvantage of EaseUs RecExperts is that you can only record in the same speed as the video is played back. 

If you consider that EaseUs RecExperts does not offer functions for the user to make recording easier and more comfortable, its price ($39,95 per year) seems a bit too high. 
 

With PlayOn, the only thing you need to record Amazon Video is to find it with the built-in browser and to click the recording button. PlayOn will save the desired video to your PC. It is an option to record the subtitles, too. 

The search function of PlayOn could be a problem for those who do not like to entrust their Amazon credentials to anybody because PlayOn will ask you to do so, otherwise recording is not possible. 

The UkeySoft Screen Recorder will save everything that is shown on your screen or a part of it as MP4, FLV, AVI or WMV. Similarly to EaseUs RecExperts, it offers you additional features like recording the mouse cursor, but also watermarks and screenshotting. A GPU acceleration is included, so that videos can be exported faster. 

But you have to remember that the resolution of your video depends on the size of your screen. 

The FonePaw Screen Recorder is a tool that records the full screen or a part of it that you need in MP4, MOV, F4V, WMV and other formats. You need to preset the frame rate manually before you start recording. 

Although the tool is suitable for any video content, the manufacturers focused on recording tutorials as you can record the mouse clicks and mouse movements. 

A helpful feature of the FonePaw Screen Recorder is that it can hide the system taskbar and the desktop icons while a video is screen recorded. 

But you have to note here too: As you just record what is shown on your screen, the resolution of your video will depend on the screen size. 

The TunePat Amazon Video Downloader has a simple user interface. Just copy the URL of the video into the tool and then start the download.

With TunePat, you can save Amazon films and series in HD quality, and if you want, also with the subtitles.

Before you can start recording, it is necessary that you log in to Amazon Prime via the recording tool.

If you have subscribed to other streaming services, you will have to look for further downloader software. You will have 5 days after the purchase to decide whether you want to keep the TunePat Amazon video Downloader.

FreeGrabApp works similarly as the previous Amazon Prime downloader tool: The only thing you have to do is logging in to Amazon, copying the URL of the desired video and starting the recording in the FreeGrabApp FreeAmazonPrimeDownload. And after some time you will have a video file on your PC, optionally in HD (1080p).

However, please note FreeGrabApp also will ask you to enter your Amazon credentials into the tool.

A further disadvantage that has nothing to do with the videos itself: The software only exists in English which is not really user-friendly.

Last but not least: If you install and open the software, it will be named FreeAmazonPrimeDownload, but on the website it is called Free Amazon Prime Downloader which could be confusing for the users.

Here is an overview of all the described tools: 

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Summary

There are many interesting tools for recording streaming services like Amazon Prime Video. If the recording quality is not really important for you, a screen recorder will be the best choice for you. It allows you to create tutorial videos or to record computer games.  

But if you are interested in high quality recordings and building up a video library you will often use the recording tool. Then it will be useful to record  several videos overnight or to use the highspeed recording feature. In this case, Audials Movie is the best tool to capture Amazon Prime Video. 

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