How to Download Pinterest Videos (Step-by-Step)
Want to learn how to download pinterest videos without an app? Savevids is a free, web-based downloader that pulls Pinterest video pins, Idea Pins, and story pins as MP4 files. No login, no watermark, no software. Paste a link, pick a quality, save.
Figuring out how to download pinterest videos is a common ask, since Pinterest has no native save-video button in its app. The platform saves the URL of the pin to your board, not the file itself, which means you need an internet connection to play it back. That breaks the moment you go offline or the uploader removes the clip.
Savevids fixes that. Paste a Pinterest link, and the tool fetches the source MP4 in seconds. This guide covers the full process: copying the link on desktop and mobile, choosing a quality, and what to do when something goes wrong. Everything runs in your browser, with no install needed.
Step-by-step
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Copy the Pinterest video link
On the Pinterest app, tap the share icon under the pin (the curved arrow). Tap 'Copy link' from the share sheet. On desktop, click the share arrow at the top right of the pin and choose 'Copy link'. The link usually looks like pinterest.com/pin/123456789/ or pin.it/AbCdEfGh. Both formats work.
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Open Savevids in your browser
Go to savevidsapp.com. Tap the Pinterest tile on the home screen, or open the Pinterest video downloader page directly. The page works on any modern browser: Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Edge, Samsung Internet, and Brave.
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Paste the link and tap Download
Tap inside the input box and paste. Tap the Download button. Savevids reads the link in a few seconds and lists every available quality. If you pasted a pin.it short link, Savevids follows the redirect to the real video file automatically.
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Pick a quality
Tap HD for the best resolution Pinterest serves (usually 720p or 1080p), SD for a smaller file, or MP3 for audio only. For Idea Pins, HD preserves the vertical aspect ratio. For wide video pins, HD gives you the original landscape format.
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Save the MP4
Your browser downloads the file to its default location. On desktop that is your Downloads folder; on Android it is the Downloads folder; on iPhone Safari saves to its Downloads list. From there you can move the file anywhere.
What you can download from Pinterest
Savevids reads the MP4 file that Pinterest stores for each video pin, so the quality matches what the uploader originally posted. You can grab standard video pins (the cards that play in your feed), Idea Pins (the vertical, multi-page format Pinterest copied from Stories), and story pins that the creator saved permanently.
Image pins do not need a downloader; right-click and save them. Pinterest pins that link out to YouTube or Vimeo also work, because Savevids handles those platforms too, but the file comes from the original host, not Pinterest.
One thing to keep in mind: Pinterest re-encodes most uploads for streaming, so the file Savevids hands back is the version Pinterest stores, not the original the creator uploaded. For typical pins that means a clean 720p or 1080p MP4 with stereo AAC audio. For carousels and Idea Pins with multiple pages, the whole sequence is concatenated into a single MP4, so you get one file rather than a folder of clips.
- Video pins (feed videos with sound)
- Idea Pins (vertical, multi-page format)
- Story pins saved permanently by the creator
- Pinterest pins linking to YouTube or Vimeo
- Image pins (use Save Image instead)
Quality and formats available
Pinterest serves video pins at several resolutions depending on the upload. HD usually means 720p or 1080p, with the original aspect ratio preserved. Idea Pins cap at 1080x1920 vertical because that is the format Pinterest encodes them in. Wide video pins cap at 1280x720 or 1920x1080, depending on what the uploader posted.
SD gives you a 480p file, useful for slow connections or limited data. MP3 strips the audio track for music, voice notes, or podcast clips. The default container is MP4 because every modern device plays it without extra codecs.
If you care about exact bitrates or original-quality masters, no web tool will hand you those, because Pinterest does not expose them. What you get is the highest-resolution encoded file Pinterest serves to its own player, which is what 99 percent of users actually want. For archiving work where every byte counts, screen-recording from the original upload is the only true lossless option.
- HD MP4 (best quality, original aspect ratio)
- SD MP4 (smaller file, faster downloads)
- MP3 audio (for music and voice clips)
- No watermark (the source file, untouched)
How to download pinterest videos the easy way: where files save
Savevids runs in any browser, but where the file ends up depends on your device. On Windows and Mac, the MP4 lands in your Downloads folder and opens in any media player. On Android, Chrome and Samsung Internet save to the Downloads folder and the Gallery app picks it up within a minute.
On iPhone, Safari saves to its Downloads list; from there you can tap Save Video to send it to Photos, or Save to Files to keep it in iCloud Drive. There is no Savevids app to install on any platform, which keeps the process identical across devices and means there is nothing to update when Pinterest changes its layout.
- Windows and Mac: Downloads folder, plays in any media player
- Android: Downloads folder, picked up by Gallery automatically
- iPhone: Safari Downloads list, then Save Video or Save to Files
- iPad: same as iPhone, files sync to iCloud if enabled
Troubleshooting Pinterest downloads
Most Pinterest download failures come from the link or the pin type. If you copied a link to an image pin, Savevids has nothing to download; the pin has no video file. If you copied a link to a private board, the source is behind a login and Savevids cannot reach it.
If a pin.it short link redirects to the Pinterest login page instead of the pin, open the pin in your browser, copy the full pinterest.com URL, and try again. If the download stalls at 99 percent, your connection dropped; cancel and retry. If you only see an SD option when you expected HD, the uploader posted at a lower resolution.
- Use video pins, not image pins
- Switch to a public board, not a private one
- Copy the full pinterest.com URL if pin.it fails
- Retry on Wi-Fi if the download stalls
- HD only exists if the uploader posted in HD
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