Guides
Worth knowing before you download
Why TikTok videos have a watermark in the first place
The floating username and logo aren't decoration — they're TikTok's way of keeping a clip traceable back to its creator once it leaves the app and gets reposted elsewhere. That's useful for attribution, but it also means a video saved directly through TikTok's own share button often arrives compressed and branded, which is awkward if you're editing the clip, archiving your own uploads, or repurposing it for something that needs a clean frame.
A downloader like this one fetches the original source file rather than a re-recorded screen capture, so quality holds up and there's nothing to crop out.
Video, photo post, or slideshow — the difference matters
Not everything on TikTok is a video file. Photo-mode posts are a single image with a music track layered over it, and slideshows are a sequence of images that auto-advance. Paste any of the three into the box above and the tool detects which type it is: a standard video returns an MP4, a photo post can return the image and the audio separately, and a slideshow returns each frame individually or merged into one MP4 with the soundtrack intact.
Downloading someone else's TikTok: what's fine, what isn't
Saving a video for personal viewing, or to send to a friend, is what this tool is built for. Reposting someone else's content as your own, stripping their username in the process, is a different thing entirely — it's a courtesy issue and, depending on the platform and the content, can be a real copyright issue too. If you're reusing a clip publicly, the simple fix is to credit the original creator the same way you'd credit a quote: name them, and link back to the original post where you can.