Clipmoth

Save your first video.

Saving a video or audio file from a page takes about ten seconds. Here's how.

01

Pin Clipmoth to your toolbar

Click the puzzle-piece icon in the top-right of your browser, then the pin next to Clipmoth. It then stays in your toolbar.

Extensions → pin Clipmoth
02

Play a video on any page

Open a page with a video or audio and start playing it. Clipmoth detects the media, and the icon shows a badge with the number it found.

03

Open Clipmoth and click Save

Click the toolbar icon (or open it in the side panel to keep it open), pick the file, and click Save. The file is saved as the site serves it: no watermark, no re-encoding.

Tip: open it in the side panel

The badge appears a moment after the clip starts playing. The file is saved to Downloads/Clipmoth.

Try it now

Try it on this page

Play the clip. A badge appears on the Clipmoth icon in your toolbar. Open Clipmoth (from the toolbar or the side panel) and click Save.

Practice ground

Four practice pages, one for each kind of site

Most sites deliver video in one of a few ways. Each lesson is a made-up site that works like one of them. Each takes under a minute.

Start with Lesson 1
Limits

Where the extension can't help

YouTube is off-limits for extensions under Chrome Web Store rules. Some big platforms deliver video in a way an extension can't see. DRM-protected services can't be saved by any tool. These are limits, not bugs. The guide lists, site by site, what works in the extension, what needs the Windows app, and what no tool can save.

See the site compatibility guide
Your first 30 days

No daily limit for 30 days

For the next 30 days there is no daily limit. After that, 10 downloads a day stay free. Removing the limit for good is a one-time $9.99, with no subscription.