3 Ways to Download TED Talks for Free

Can You Download TED Talks

Unlike YouTube, Facebook, or Twitter that offers no "Download" option to save its videos to your device, TED actually allows you to download its videos using the feature it provides. Thus, it's comparatively easy to download TED talks, either to your computer or mobile device.

Besides, there are other useful third-party tools that will help to download videos from TED and many other sites. Read on to learn all the workable ways and apply one of them to download TED talks to your computer or mobile device effortlessly.

How to Download TED Talks in 3 Ways

As mentioned, TED allows you to download its videos from the website or app directly. But if you want to save videos from TED as well as other sites like YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter, you'd better use a third-party tool that is compatible with more sites.

Given that, three ways are detailed below. Carry out the way best suited to your needs to download a TED talk as you want to.

Method 1. Download TED talks (Audio) from TED.com or TED App

Whether you are looking to download a TED talk from the website or iOS/Android app, you can get it done directly without the help of third-party tools or services.

To download TED talks from TED.com:

Step 1. Play the video you want to download in TED.com.

Step 2. Hover over the video and click the "Share" option.

Step 3. Choose "Download" in the "Tools" section in the new window.

Step 4. If you are going to download the TED video, specify whether to download the video with subtitles and click the "Download video" option. If you attempt to download the TED audio, choose "Download audio" instead.

To download TED videos from the iOS app:

Step 1. Play the video in the TED app for iOS.

Step 2. Click the "Download" icon under the video to start downloading the TED talk.

Step 3. Go to the "Profile" tab and click the "Downloads" option to check the downloaded TED talks.

To download a TED talk from the Android app:

Step 1. Play the video in the app.

Step 2. Tap the "Download" button underneath to start downloading the TED talk to your Android device.

Step 3. When the download completes, you can go to "My TED" > "Downloads" to check the item.

Method 2. Download TED Videos with a Free Video Downloader

If you always want to download videos from TED or other sites like YouTube, Dailymotion, and more, it's necessary for you to get a free video downloader on your computer. Why? With such a video downloader, you will be able to save videos from many social networking sites or video sites, including TED, YouTube, Instagram... It will help you not only when you want to download a TED talk but also when you want to save videos from other popular sites.

The video downloader - EaseUS Video Downloader is such a tool. With this TED talk downloading program installed on your PC, you can download TED talks to your computer using the video URL.

To download TED videos:

Step 1. Launch EaseUS Video Downloader on your PC. Copy and paste the URL of the video you want to download into the searching bar. Click "Search" to proceed.

Step 2. It will open a built-in YouTube page of the video. Click the "Download" button in the bottom left to parse the video.

Step 3. In the popup, you can choose for the video format and quality, and specify a location for the downloaded video. Then click "Download" to start the downloading process.

Step 4. After the downloading process finishes, you can check the downloaded video in the option "Finished."

Disclaimer: The information provided in this guide is for personal use. EaseUS is in no way collaborated or affiliated with the video-sharing site and will never approve any copyright infringement action. The end-user should be solely responsible for their behavior.

After you download the video you like, you can edit the video or watch it offline as you like.

Method 3. Download TED talks with Online TED Talk Downloader

Using an online video is also a popular choice to download TED videos. There are many online tools available that work well to download TED talks for you. Let me show you how to use it.

To download a TED talk online:

Step 1. Find the video you'd like to save from the TED website and copy the video URL from the address bar.

Step 2. Go to visit the free online video downloader and paste the link into the box.

Step 3. Click the "Download" button and wait for the video downloader to analyze the link.

Step 4. When it has been done, a new window will appear and provide you with different download options.

Step 5. Find the format you need and click the "Download" option next to it to save the video to your computer.

Conclusion

Downloading TED talks is relatively simple compared with downloading videos from other sites or apps. If you are looking to get TED talks with subtitles, go to TED.com to download the video. If you also want to download videos from other websites, you will need a third-party video downloader to get things done.