Video & Audio Tools for Every Platform

Save videos from TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, X, and Vimeo for offline viewing. Extract audio, convert formats, and explore our growing suite of free media tools.

MyVideoCity is a free media toolkit. You get three fully working audio tools - an MP3 extractor, a format converter that handles WAV, FLAC, AAC, OGG and OPUS, and an audio compressor built for podcast and social media uploads. No account, no install, no waiting.

The video side supports TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, X, and Vimeo - for saving your own content, offline access, and personal study. Everything is processed server-side and deleted immediately. The guides below cover audio formats, video codecs, legal questions, and platform-specific tips.

Why I built MyVideoCity - and what it became

I didn't want to build another video downloader. Honestly. The internet is already stuffed with them.

But I kept running into the same annoying problem. I'd find a hilarious video on TikTok or a really good tutorial on Instagram. I wanted to save it. Not just bookmark it inside the app where I'd inevitably lose it in a sea of other bookmarks, but actually save it to my phone. I wanted to send it to my dad, who refuses to install social media apps on his phone.

So I went looking for a way to just download the file.

And that's where the headache started. I clicked the first link on Google. It asked me to install a sketchy browser extension. I clicked the second link. It bombarded me with five different popups before I could even paste my URL. The third one worked, but it compressed the video so badly that it looked like it was filmed on a potato from 2004.

Yeah. That wasn't going to work for me.

The reality of social media walled gardens

Look, I get it from their perspective. Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok want you to stay inside their apps. That's how they make money. They don't want you taking their content offline. They want you scrolling. Endlessly.

But once a video is public, it's out there. You should be able to keep a copy on your own hard drive. Maybe you're a video editor who needs to compile clips for a project. Maybe you're a teacher grabbing a documentary snippet from Vimeo for your classroom. Or maybe you just saw a dog doing a backflip and need it in your camera roll for emergencies.

You shouldn't need a degree in computer science to do that. And you definitely shouldn't have to navigate a minefield of fake download buttons.

That's why MyVideoCity exists. I built it for myself first. I needed a tool that was fast, didn't ask for my email, and didn't try to trick me. You just paste a link. The server fetches the direct media file from the platform's public servers. You click save. We don't keep the file. We don't track what you're downloading.

It is literally that simple.

The obsession with high definition

Let's talk about video quality for a second.

A massive pet peeve of mine is when a downloader promises HD quality but hands you a blurry 480p file. If the original creator uploaded a crisp, beautiful 1080p or 4K video to Vimeo or Facebook, you should be able to get that exact file. Nothing less.

That is actually harder to pull off than you might think. A lot of these platforms separate their video and audio streams for high-definition content to save bandwidth. They send the picture through one pipe and the sound through another. When you watch it on their app, your phone stitches them together in real time. But if you try to download it directly, you either get a video with no sound or a low-resolution version where they are already mixed.

I had to write custom server logic to handle this. When you ask for a 1080p video, the server grabs the high-res silent video and the separate high-quality audio file. It merges them together on our backend in a matter of seconds. Then it hands you the final, perfect MP4 file.

It costs a lot of server power to do this. But I absolutely refuse to serve pixelated garbage.

Why the audio tools matter just as much

About a month into running the video side of things, I realized I was missing half the equation.

A lot of times, I didn't even care about the video. I just wanted the background music from a TikTok trend or the speech from a Twitter clip. Downloading a 500MB 4K video file just to listen to a 30-second audio track makes zero sense. It eats up bandwidth and fills up storage.

So I added the MP3 Extractor. It strips the video data and just hands you the audio. Then I realized people might need that audio in different formats, so the Audio Converter came next. It handles FLAC, WAV, OGG, and whatever else you might need for your specific setup.

It's kind of wild how much processing power goes into changing an audio format behind the scenes. We use FFmpeg on the server side to handle all the heavy lifting. You don't see any of that. You just get your file.

And if you're dealing with massive uncompressed WAV files, they take up way too much space. That led to the Audio Compressor. I built it so you can squash those massive files down to a reasonable size without destroying the sound quality.

The video editing problem I kept ignoring

About a month after the audio tools launched, people started asking me about something I had been quietly avoiding.

"Can you compress this video? It's too big to send on WhatsApp." "The file is MKV and my phone won't play it." "Is there a way to turn a clip into a GIF?"

Honest answer? I knew I needed to build this. I just kept putting it off because video processing is genuinely painful to get right.

The Video Compressor was first. It sounds simple but it isn't. Most tools just smash the bitrate down until the file is small enough. The result looks like a watercolor painting that someone accidentally sat on. I wanted compression that was actually smart. The kind that looks at what's in the video and cuts the bits that your eyes can barely notice anyway.

The Format Converter came out of a specific frustration. MKV files are everywhere. They're a great container. But half the apps on the planet act like they've never heard of MKV. You try to play it on your phone and you get nothing. Converting it manually using FFmpeg on the command line isn't something most people want to deal with. So I built a browser-based version that handles MP4, MOV, AVI, MKV, WebM, and a handful of others. Upload the file. Pick the format. Done.

The GIF Maker was the one I wasn't sure about at first. GIFs feel a bit 2012. But the demand kept coming up. People want to grab a specific three-second moment from a video and loop it. Reaction clips, highlights, tutorial animations. Turns out the use case is very much alive.

The tricky part is that a good GIF is harder to make than it looks. A naive conversion just dumps every frame into the file and you end up with something that's 40MB for a five-second clip. I spent a while getting the dithering and color palette generation right so the output comes out clean and reasonably sized. There's some real FFmpeg work happening in the background on that one. I'm mildly proud of it.

Mobile vs Desktop

Most people don't sit at a computer anymore. We live on our phones. But downloading a raw file to an iPhone used to be a nightmare.

Apple used to block direct downloads in Safari entirely. You had to use weird third-party file manager apps just to save a video. Thankfully they finally opened that up. Now you can just tap download and it drops right into your Files app. Android has always been easier, but it still gets messy with certain file types.

I spent weeks optimizing the site layout specifically for mobile. I wanted big, easy-to-tap buttons. No tiny text. No confusing menus. You copy the link from the app, flip over to your browser, paste it, and you're done. The whole process takes maybe five seconds.

Keeping it alive

Running a site like this isn't exactly a walk in the park. The big platforms change their code constantly. One day Instagram decides to route all their videos through a new server cluster. The next day Twitter breaks their API completely. It becomes a game of cat and mouse.

I spend a ridiculous amount of time fixing extractors that broke overnight. But it's worth it.

When I see thousands of people using the site every day to grab the content they care about, it validates the whole project. People need simple utilities that just work. No fluff. No required accounts.

As long as the internet stays relatively open, I'll keep patching the code to make sure you can get your files.