Snapchat Video Downloader
Save public Spotlight videos. Your Snapchat login is never required.
- Spotlight videos
- Public posts only
- Works on mobile
How it works
- 1
Copy the Snapchat link
Use the share button and copy the Snapchat link.
- 2
Paste it above
Drop it in the box and press Download.
- 3
Pick a quality
Choose a file and it saves straight to your device.
Any site promising to save snaps wants your login
Snaps and stories are sent to specific accounts over an authenticated session, and built to disappear afterwards. There is no public address for them. No amount of cleverness produces one, because the content is not published — it is delivered.
Which leaves exactly one way for a website to offer it: ask you to sign in, and use your session to fetch what your account can see. That is not a downloader. That is handing your Snapchat account to a stranger, along with everything in it and the ability to keep using it after you have closed the tab.
Frequently asked questions
Can I download someone’s story or a snap they sent me?
No, and neither can any other site claiming otherwise. Snaps and stories are delivered only to the accounts they were sent to, over an authenticated session, and they are designed to be removed afterwards. A site offering to fetch them is either asking for your Snapchat login — which hands over your whole account — or it does not work at all.
So what does work?
Spotlight. Those are the videos Snapchat publishes openly at snapchat.com/spotlight/… — a public feed, deliberately shareable, and a normal file behind it.
Does the person know I downloaded it?
Spotlight has no view-notification of the kind snaps do, and in any case nothing about this request touches your Snapchat account — you are not logged in to anything here. Screenshotting a snap in the app is a different situation entirely, and that one does notify.
Is there a watermark?
The file is passed through exactly as Snapchat serves it. If a creator burned their handle into the video when they made it, it stays — that is part of the picture, not an overlay added on delivery.
Can I get the audio on its own?
Yes, as a 320 kbps MP3 alongside the video.
Is downloading Spotlight videos legal?
Spotlight is a public feed built for sharing, and saving one to watch again is ordinary use. Re-uploading someone’s clip as your own is a different matter, and being public does not make it yours.