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.
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 a few dozen kilobytes, 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, so it lands 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 →
Pair the free Vidnip iPhone app with your Mac over Wi‑Fi. Send links from any app, watch and control the Mac's tasks, then use the finished video three ways. No account, no cloud — everything stays on your local network, encrypted.
Copied over Wi‑Fi and verified with SHA‑256 before it lands in your library. Watch offline anywhere.
Instant playback with seeking, speed control, full screen and AirPlay to your TV. Only a small cache stays on the phone.
Open the video on the Mac's screen and drive play, pause, seek, volume and subtitles from your phone.
Requires Vidnip for Mac 1.7.0 or later with “Allow iPhone to connect over the local network” turned on, and iOS 17 or later. More about Vidnip for iPhone → · Setup guide
No account. No subscription. No feature gates during the trial.
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.
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.
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 with every feature enabled, and they never expire. 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.
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 a free companion app on the App Store (iOS 17 or later). Pair it with your Mac on the same Wi‑Fi to send links from the Share sheet, follow and control the Mac's downloads, and then copy finished videos to the phone, stream them, or control playback on the Mac. No account, no cloud. More about Vidnip for iPhone →
No. The Mac does the downloading. The iPhone app sends the link, lets you confirm which video to download, and afterwards copies the finished file to the phone over Wi‑Fi so you can watch it offline.
Your first three downloads are free — see for yourself in the next two minutes.