It’s no secret that TikTok has become one of the most popular apps and social networks in recent years. The platform not only brings together countless videos of entertainment, dance and more, but also many artistic, creative and informative videos in short video format (we invite you to follow Xataka on TikTok for tips, applications and more information on technology).
One of the original ideas of TikTok is that Videos can be shared anywhere, whether with your friends in a WhatsApp group or even on another platform. That’s why they offer several ways to share and download videos. But sometimes you may want to download a TikTok video without the TikTok watermark, and it is also possible to do that, although you need to consider a few things.
How to Download TikTok Videos Officially (With Watermark)
First, let’s talk about the best way to download TikTok videos: through the social network’s official app. The same app allows users to easily download videos from their favorite accounts so, this way I can share them with others anywhere, or even save them to view later (I admit that it has helped me download recipe videos which I then view before and during cooking).
Of course, there is one very important requirement: the video creator must allow their videos to be uploaded. This option is active by default when uploading a video to the social network, but creators can choose to disable it if they wish.
If the account allows you to download its videos, you can download them in one of the following ways. The first method to download TikTok videos is the simplest and most direct:
- Navigate to the video we want to download
- Tap the arrow button, which opens the “Share” menu
- Select the option “Save video»
- And just like that, the video will be downloaded and available in the media content gallery of your Android mobile or tablet.
Another method to download videos is send it directly by email to another person, or even to your own email. Maybe you don’t need to have this video on your mobile but on another device, and this is a quick and easy way to achieve that.
To do this, we follow the following steps:
- Navigate to the video we want to download
- Tap the arrow button, which opens the “Share” menu
- We choose “E-mail” among the options of the sharing application
- And finally, in the mail application we write the email address to which we want to send the video. Whoever receives it will be able to see it downloaded directly from their email to their device, regardless of whether it is a cell phone or a computer
If the account has disabled the downloading of its videos, Downloaded video cannot be sent by email. Instead, a link to access the video on TikTok will be sent in the email.
How to Download TikTok Videos Without Watermark
The previous methods allow you to download videos officially, with their respective watermark and the name of the account that created the video. However, you may want to download a video without a watermark. It’s possible, but not via the TikTok app.
Before doing so, it is necessary to take into account that The idea of the watermark in these videos is to highlight authorship, giving credit to the author or creator.. Downloading an account’s video without its watermark is not something we encourage. Likewise, downloading the video without a watermark from a film’s official account, which uses TikTok to promote it, is not the same as downloading the original video from an independent creator.
That said, to download videos on TikTok without a watermark you need use a third-party website or application. Personally, I prefer not to install this type of application, but rather to use its web version, and the one I use the most is SaveFromNet.
To download videos without watermark, follow these steps:
- Navigate to the video we want to download
- We press the arrow-shaped button which opens the “Share” menu
- We select the option “Copy link“, this way the video link will be copied to the mobile clipboard
- We access the savefrom.net page from the mobile browser
- We copy the link into the box and press the button next to it
- A message may appear asking you to download the SaveFromNet app, but we can choose to continue downloading from the browser
- Eventually, we select the download format: MP4 to download video, or MP3 to download audio only
That’s all. The video will be downloaded to the mobile without watermark. Another similar website that allows this type of download is Snaptik.app, but as I mentioned a few lines ago, the option I recommend is SaveFromNet, because so far I have had a good experience by downloading videos from its web version in the different formats available.
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