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Facebook Reels downloader
Paste the link to a public Facebook reel and get the vertical clip back as a file. No account, no extension, no password — built for creators archiving their own work.
Facebook reel link
Only download reels you made or have permission to use. Re-uploading someone else’s reel without their consent can breach copyright, the rights of whoever owns the music, and Facebook’s terms.
Your reels, back on your own drive
Reels are the part of Facebook most likely to disappear on you. They are shot on a phone, often edited inside the app, and posted the same afternoon — which means the only full-quality copy frequently lives on Meta’s servers and nowhere else. Change phones, lose a device, hand a Page over to a new manager, and a year of short-form work becomes something you can watch but not touch. A Facebook Reels downloader is the missing export button.
This page is built around that job. Paste the public link to a reel and you get the vertical file back, ready to drop into an editor, re-cut for TikTok, or file away in the folder where your finished work actually belongs. It runs in the browser, so there is nothing to install and nothing that lingers on your machine after the tab closes.
We ask for the link and nothing else. No Facebook email, no password, no connected app, no permissions screen. If any site tells you it needs your Facebook login to download a reel, close it — that pattern exists to harvest credentials, not to save video. A public reel has a public address, and the address is all a legitimate tool needs.
How to download Facebook Reels
Four steps, roughly fifteen seconds, phone or desktop.
Open the reel
Find it in the Reels tab, on the Page that posted it, or in your own profile. It has to be public — private posts and friends-only reels are not readable by this tool or any other honest one.
Copy its link
Tap the three dots on the reel and choose “Copy link”. On desktop you can lift the address straight from the browser bar; it usually contains /reel/ followed by a long number.
Paste it above
Drop the link into the field at the top of this page and press the button. That link is the only thing read — your own account is never touched, because you never sign in.
Save the file
The clip comes back vertical, at the resolution Facebook serves it. Rename it to something you will recognise in six months, and it is ready for an editor or a backup drive.
Why use this instead of a screen recording
Free, browser-based, and it never asks who you are.
No login, ever
You paste a public link. There is no Facebook sign-in step, no OAuth prompt and no password field anywhere on this page.
Cleaner than a capture
Screen recording re-compresses the video, bakes in the interface, and hands you whatever frame rate your phone felt like. Pulling from the link keeps the file Facebook actually serves.
Nothing to install
It works in Safari, Chrome, Firefox and Edge on iPhone, Android, Mac and Windows. No APK, no browser extension, no desktop app bundling something you did not ask for.
Free with no account
No sign-up, no card, no daily limit tied to an email address. It sits alongside our paid growth services, but nothing here asks you to buy.
What to do with a reel once you have it
The most common reason to download Facebook Reels is repurposing. A reel that performed on Facebook is already vertical and already short, which makes it the cheapest content you own to move across to TikTok, Instagram Reels or YouTube Shorts. Before you re-upload, strip anything platform-specific from the frame — a Facebook watermark or an on-screen “follow my Page” card reads as recycled the second it lands somewhere else, and recycled tends to underperform.
The second reason is version control. Keep the finished export, and keep it named properly: date first, topic second, so the folder sorts itself. Creators who work from a local library can re-cut a hook, swap an ending or rebuild a whole series from old footage in an afternoon. Creators who rely on the app can only start over.
Audio deserves its own thought. Reels made with a track from Facebook’s music library are licensed for use inside Meta’s apps — that licence does not travel with the file. If you plan to post the clip elsewhere or use it in an ad, replace the music with something you have rights to. Silent export plus a fresh track is a two-minute job and avoids a takedown that costs a lot more.
Before you download: rights and limits
Saving a copy is not the same as owning it. A downloaded reel is someone’s footage, someone’s face and often someone’s music, and none of that transfers with the file. Archiving your own work, keeping a record of a Page you manage, or saving a clip a friend explicitly said you could use is one thing. Re-uploading a stranger’s reel to farm views is another, and it is the kind of thing that gets accounts struck rather than grown.
There are hard limits, too. Private profiles, friends-only posts, deleted reels and anything behind a block cannot be retrieved by this tool, and we have not built it to try. Any site claiming it can reach that content is either overstating what it does or angling for your password. If a reel is public, it has a link; if it does not have a link, no tool should be handing it to you.
Frequently asked questions
The questions people send us most often about this tool, answered plainly.
Yes. There is no charge, no account and no cap tied to an email address. We build free tools because they bring people to the site; the paid growth services are separate and nothing on this page pushes you towards them.
No, and you never should. This tool reads only the public link you paste. Any downloader asking for your Facebook email and password is a credential-harvesting risk, whatever it promises in exchange.
No. Reels limited to friends or posted from a private profile are not publicly addressable, and no legitimate tool bypasses that restriction. The link you paste has to point at a reel anyone could open in a logged-out browser.
Facebook does not notify anyone when a public reel is opened or saved. That is precisely why the responsibility to respect the creator’s rights rests with you rather than with a notification.
Only if you made it or the creator has agreed. A reel is a copyrighted work, and the music in it usually carries its own separate licence that only applies inside Meta’s apps. Save what you have the right to save, and ask before you reuse anyone else’s footage.
You get what Facebook serves for that reel, which depends on how it was uploaded and how the platform re-encoded it. It will not be better than the original export, but it will be noticeably cleaner than a screen recording of the same clip.
Yes. Short fb.watch links are just redirects to the full reel address, so pasting either form is fine. Reels shared from Instagram to a Facebook Page also carry an ordinary public link once they are posted.
The page, the form and the link validation are finished, but the service that actually fetches the media is still being connected to a licensed provider. We deliberately ship no scraping code of our own. Until that is wired up, nothing you paste is transmitted anywhere.
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