Paste the link of a TikTok video below and press Save it. You will get a list of sizes, each with the weight of the real file, and Sound only underneath. No account, and nothing kept on our side once the file has reached you.
The Share menu in the TikTok app gives you a short link — the kind that starts with vm.tiktok.com. That is the one most people have in hand, so that is the one we made sure works. It costs about three tenths of a second more than a full address, because we have to ask TikTok where it leads.
Why we have no watermark to remove
Every other site promises to strip the watermark off. We promise something different, and smaller: we never put a hand on the file at all. The reason that works is worth knowing, because it tells you what you are actually being handed.
TikTok keeps more than one copy of each video. The copy behind its own download button carries the moving watermark — the username and logo that drift from corner to corner. The copies it uses to actually play the video in the app carry none: they are the file the author uploaded. On every video we checked, the watermark sat on the download copy and nowhere else.
So our rule is one line long, and it is written into the code rather than into a promise: never offer the download copy. What you get is a playback copy, passed along untouched. No watermark, because there was never one on it — not because we scrubbed it off.
One honest limit: if the author burned their own name, caption or logo into the video before uploading it, that marking is part of the picture. It stays. Removing it would mean re-drawing the video, which is exactly the thing we do not do.
The sound is already an MP3
TikTok publishes the audio of a video as a file of its own, as an MP3, at around 129 kbps. We hand it over the way we hand over the video: as it is. One we measured was 258,862 bytes for sixteen seconds of sound.
That makes TikTok the easier half of this site. For a post on X there is no audio file to pass along, so we have to lift the sound out of the video and write the MP3 ourselves — eight seconds of work, and a twenty-minute ceiling. Here there is nothing to build, so there is no ceiling and no waiting. The MP3 page has the arithmetic for both.
One line per size, and the spare
TikTok serves each size twice, in two different codecs. The same 720p video reached us at 817,654 bytes one way and 421,012 the other — half the weight, the same picture. Showing you both under the same name would be four lines saying three things.
So you get one line per size, the lighter file. On a video from NASA that reads 1080p at 584 KB, 720p at 421 KB, 576p at 337 KB. A full-length video is usually a few megabytes — the middle of the eight we measured was 3.6 MB.
The lighter codec is the newer one, and a few devices refuse it: an older Android, a Windows machine without its HEVC module. A video that will not open is a worse failure than a heavy one, and it looks like success until you tap it. So when none of the lines above plays everywhere, we add one more at the bottom, labelled for what it is: if the video does not open, take this one. On that NASA video the spare was the 720p at 818 KB.
What we cannot do
- A photo post. TikTok carousels are images, not video. We say so plainly instead of handing you a file that is not what you asked for.
- A private account. A video only followers can see is as invisible to us as it is to anyone the author has not accepted. We do not sign in to get past that, here or anywhere.
- A link that leads nowhere. A short link whose code has expired takes you to TikTok's home page rather than to an error — that is TikTok's way of saying the code is dead, and we read it as such rather than pretending to look for a video.
Both platforms, one tape
The same field reads X and TikTok: you paste, we work out where the link goes. There is one difference worth stating, since we publish our figures either way. A video from X is handed to you by X itself, straight from their machines. TikTok only serves a video file to whoever just opened its page, so a TikTok file comes through ours — and we keep none of it once it has reached you. Our status page shows what actually happened this week, failures included.