Paste a link. Vidnip sniffs the page, catches every stream — mp4, HLS/m3u8, DASH — and hands you one clean, playable MP4. No terminal. No plugins. No hunting for "real" URLs.
Watch what you saved, with your place remembered. Keep songs in a library whose lyrics scroll. Get subtitles written on your own Mac. Send links home from anywhere. Six things, all in the same app.
The new Videos section holds everything you've downloaded. Double-click to play, with embedded subtitles or the .srt next to the file. It remembers where you stopped, groups episodes by subscription or playlist, and filters to what you haven't seen. Stop halfway, pick up the iPhone, and it carries on from the same second. See it with a series →
Drag in songs and music videos, or let “Audio only” downloads file themselves. Lyrics scroll with the song, taken from the file, a matching .lrc, the free LRCLIB database or your Mac's own speech recognition. Tag songs, browse by album or artist, and sync them to your iPhone for offline listening.
Right-click a download, choose Generate Subtitles (On-Device), and macOS speech recognition writes a timed .srt. Embed it if you'll watch on the iPhone. It writes scrolling lyrics for songs too. Nothing is uploaded, it's free, and it doesn't use your trial downloads.
Share a link from your iPhone on mobile data or any Wi‑Fi, and your Mac at home starts downloading it. The link is end-to-end encrypted; our relay passes along ciphertext it can't read and keeps it for 7 days at most. The video itself never touches our servers. Turn it on in Settings › iPhone. How it fits a commute →
Paste or drop up to 100 links; each one starts as soon as it's recognized. From a playlist, tick the episodes, cap the quality, save as MP3, and add it to the music library as one album.
The download engine used to need about ten seconds to wake up. Now it's ready in under one, so the first video card shows up that much sooner.
It arrives as a normal in-app update; every future update is included with your license. Price and trial haven't changed: 3 downloads free, then a one-time purchase for up to 3 Macs.
Modern sites bury video behind JavaScript players, nested iframes and chunked streams. Vidnip watches the traffic itself — so what you see is what you save.
The built-in engine loads the page and listens to every request it makes. JS-injected players, iframe-in-iframe embeds, lazy-loaded manifests — they all surface. You never dig through DevTools again.
A stream is hundreds of .ts fragments. Vidnip downloads them in parallel, stitches them with ffmpeg, names the file after the page — you just double-click play. Then convert to MOV, GIF or MP3 in one click: the converter is built in, no second app to buy.
Wi-Fi drops, Mac sleeps, you quit. Reopen and it continues from the exact byte it stopped at.
A full season, a channel, a collection — queue every episode with one click. Or subscribe: new episodes download themselves.
Drag our bookmarklet to your bookmarks bar. On any video page, click it — the link flies straight into Vidnip.
New versions install in place and relaunch — usually just a few megabytes, thanks to binary deltas. You'll never visit this site for an update again.
Netflix-style protected content can't be downloaded — by anyone. Vidnip detects DRM and tells you straight, instead of failing mysteriously at 99%.
Site redesigns are a downloader's worst enemy. Vidnip's extraction engine updates itself every week — when a site changes, the fix arrives without waiting for a new app release.
One tap on the note button turns any video page into a clean M4A — cover art and title embedded, and it lands in your music library as a proper song.
Every subtitle track a site offers — manual, auto-generated or auto-translated — listed on the video card. Set a preferred language once, get an embedded soft track plus a matching .srt next to the file. Or download just the subtitles, or a plain-text transcript, without using your free downloads.
Subscribe to channels, playlists and collections — new episodes download themselves and ping you. It keeps watch in the background, and can even start at login.
Copy a video link in your browser, switch back to Vidnip — it's already detecting. Or don't switch: one click on the notification does the same.
First time? Just follow along.
Open the page with the video in your browser, click the address bar at the top and press ⌘C.
Found it in a phone app? Tap Share → Copy Link and send it to your Mac. Paste the whole text as it is: Vidnip finds the link inside.
If Vidnip is open, switching back to it starts the search by itself. If nothing happens, click the address field at the top of Vidnip, press ⌘V, then Return.
Within a few seconds (up to about 20), a card appears for each video, with its title, length and quality options.
Choose a quality on the card and click Download. Progress shows in the list below; m3u8 videos that arrive in hundreds of small pieces are merged into one MP4 automatically.
When it's done, click the magnifier on that row to see the file in Finder (your Downloads folder by default). Double-click to play.
Can't find the video? Click Show Page next to the address field and press play in the window that opens; sign in there if the site needs it. Vidnip picks the video up as it plays. More help →
Free on the App Store, with no in-app purchases and no account. Without a Mac it's an offline player for the music and videos you already have. Pair it with your Mac and it's where the Mac's downloads end up, and how you send it new links.
Importing and playing your own files needs nothing else. The Mac features need Vidnip for Mac 1.7.0 or later with “Allow iPhone to connect over the local network” turned on, and both devices on the same Wi‑Fi to pair. Music sync, two-way Continue Watching and Remote Send need Vidnip for Mac 2.0; Remote Send also needs “Let paired iPhones send links to this Mac from anywhere”. iPhone or iPad with iOS 17 or later. More about Vidnip for iPhone → · Setup guide
No account. No subscription. Everything but Series Subscriptions works in the trial.
Six things. A Videos section where downloads play inside the app, with subtitles and your place remembered. A music library with scrolling lyrics, tags and music videos that syncs to your iPhone. Batch download for many links at once or chosen playlist items. Subtitles and lyrics generated on your Mac (macOS 26 or later). Remote Send, so a paired iPhone can send links home from anywhere, end-to-end encrypted. And a download engine that starts in under a second instead of about ten. If you already have a license, 2.0 is included and arrives as a normal in-app update.
Yes. Subscribe to a channel, playlist or collection and Vidnip checks on a schedule (it stays in the background by default, with optional launch at login). New episodes download automatically with a notification. Adding a subscription only baselines what's already there — it never bulk-downloads the backlog. Series Subscriptions are part of the full version.
Direct mp4/webm embeds, plus m3u8 (HLS) and DASH streams — all segments merged into one playable MP4 automatically. The built-in engine also covers 1,800+ popular video sites. DRM-protected content (Netflix etc.) is not supported, and Vidnip says so honestly when it detects it.
Yes. In the music library, lyrics come from the file itself, a matching .lrc file, the free LRCLIB lyrics database (looked up only when you ask), or you can type and time them yourself; synced lyrics scroll as the song plays. On macOS 26 or later, Vidnip can also listen to a video and write a timed .srt, or write lyrics for a song, with macOS speech recognition. That runs on your Mac, costs nothing and doesn't use your free downloads. On the iPhone, synced lyrics scroll too, and Car Lyrics can show the current line on your car's display.
Copy the address of the page containing the video and paste it into Vidnip. It loads the page, sniffs the video traffic, and lists what it finds — click Download and merging plus naming are automatic. Sites that need a login? Open the built-in preview window, sign in, and detection continues.
Yes — your first 3 downloads are free and never expire. Everything works except Series Subscriptions (auto-downloading new episodes), which needs a license. After that it's a one-time US$10.99 (charged in your local currency: CN¥79 / JP¥1,580). One key activates up to 3 Macs. Not a subscription. Detection, subtitles-only downloads, on-device subtitles and the music library never use your free downloads.
Right after payment you land on a page with your license key and an "Open Vidnip & Activate" button — one click and you're done. The key is also emailed to you. Switching Macs? Deactivate on the old one, activate on the new one.
Pause, quit, lose your connection — Vidnip resumes from where it left off when you're back. No starting over.
macOS 14 or later on Apple Silicon. The app is Apple-notarized and ships with everything inside — no Homebrew, no Python, no dependencies.
English, Simplified Chinese and Japanese. It follows your system language and can be switched any time in Settings.
Yes. Vidnip for iPhone is free on the App Store, with no in-app purchases (iOS 17 or later, iPhone and iPad). On its own it's an offline player: import your own music, music videos and videos from the Files app, Photos or a computer, with scrolling lyrics and every video resuming where you stopped. Paired with your Mac, it sends links from the Share sheet, shows and controls the Mac's downloads, copies or streams the finished videos, continues what you started on the Mac and syncs your music; with Remote Send it does this away from home too. Downloads still run on the Mac and use the Mac's free downloads or license. No account. More about Vidnip for iPhone →
No. The iPhone app never downloads anything from websites; the Mac does the downloading. What the iPhone can do: play files you already have (import them from the Files app, Photos or a computer), send a link to your Mac (over Wi‑Fi at home, or from anywhere with Remote Send), and then copy the finished video to the phone to watch offline.
In Vidnip 2.0, inside the app: the Videos section lists every download with its cover and progress, double-click plays it with subtitles, and it resumes where you stopped. Group them by source (subscription or playlist), and an unwatched filter shows what's left. Vidnip for iPhone picks up the same videos, with a Continue Watching row, streamed over Wi‑Fi or copied for offline viewing. Downie hands the finished file to Finder and your player; Vidnip keeps the download → watch → continue loop in one place. See it in practice: course videos, a series, the commute.
Your first three downloads are free — see for yourself in the next two minutes.