Written by Ivana - Reviewed by Emilija Shopping & Booking / Amazon
Amazon Prime Video, or simply Prime video, is Amazon’s subscription video-on-demand and rental service offering popular movies and TV shows, which you can enjoy as part of an Amazon Prime subscription.
The Amazon Prime Video online streaming service offers many features. For example, you can choose the video quality, personalize your recommended content, navigate the easy-to-use interface, as well as download content.
The safest and easiest way to download videos from Amazon Prime Video is to use approved devices by Amazon, which include the Fire tablet, or the Amazon Prime Video app for iOS, Android, macOS, or Windows 10.
You can watch the downloaded videos offline, however, you can’t watch them outside of the Amazon Prime Video platform because they are encrypted.
However, there are certain limitations to watching a downloaded video. You can download a maximum of 15-25 video titles across all devices on one Amazon account.
Additionally, once you download a video, you have 30 days to start watching it, and after you start watching, you have 48 hours to finish watching it.
So, you might be wondering if it’s possible to somehow transfer downloaded Amazon videos to an HDD (external hard drive).
There are some tools on the internet that allow you to download Amazon Prime Video content and transfer them to any desired location, such as an external hard drive.
Before we continue explaining the tools, we must emphasize that Amazon Prime doesn’t allow saving downloaded videos to a USB drive or HDD.
Disclaimer: We do not encourage piracy. Piracy is illegal, and we do not take any responsibility if the given information is used for piracy.
There are several third-party tools available you can choose from.
TuneBoto is a great software that helps you download Amazon Prime Video content and transfer it to any location you want. To download videos with TuneBoto.
PlayOn is another third-party web tool that lets you record and download videos from Amazon Prime Video. You can also use the PlayOn mobile app to download and transfer videos.
Follow these steps for downloading movies and TV shows from Amazon Prime Video on PlayOn:
Now you can transfer the video to your HDD.
UkeySoft is an easy-to-use and effective screen recording software. It lets you record your screen and save the recording in MP4, MKV, GIF, or other formats. You can also download videos while at the same time watching them on Amazon Prime Video.
Here’s how to use it:
The TunePat is a dedicated Amazon Video Downloader that lets you download videos in MP4 or MKV format. The downloaded videos are then transferable across devices.
You can also download videos on the Amazon Prime Video app, but Amazon only allows you to download to approved devices like mobiles and tablets.
Note: There’s no option to download videos on the web app from Mac or Windows.
Note: Not all video titles can be downloaded through the Amazon Prime video app. If a particular video is not available for download, you can purchase/rent the video and then download it to your device.
Above we’ve listed several third-party apps that allow you to transfer amazon videos to an external hard drive. However, please refrain from any piracy activities and use the solutions above for downloading Amazon Prime Video content for your own collection.
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