How to Download Pinterest Videos (2026 Guide)

A Pinterest board full of video pins feels like a library, but it's really a wall of bookmarks to other people's content. When a pinner deletes their account, or Pinterest removes the pin. Your board keeps a dead thumbnail and the tutorial is gone. This guide shows how to download the videos themselves, so the recipes and DIY guides you rely on are actually yours.

How to save a video pin

1. Copy the pin link. Tap the share icon → Copy link on the pin (app) or copy the browser URL. Full pinterest.com/pin/… URLs and short pin.it links both work.
2. Open the Pinterest video downloader and paste the link.
3. Pick MP4 and download. A live progress bar runs and the file saves automatically. Voiceover recipes work brilliantly as MP3 too.

On your phone

The usual platform notes apply: iPhone works best in Safari (file in Files → Downloads, then Share → Save Video for Photos); Android drops the MP4 into Downloads where your gallery picks it up.

What's worth saving

• Recipe videos, offline at the stove, no wifi, no buffering, no vanished pin mid-recipe.
• DIY and craft tutorials, keep the full build sequence in your project folder.
• Workout clips, a local playlist beats streaming at the gym.
• Your own video pins. Recover uploads when the original file is long gone.

The honest limits

• Secret boards can't be downloaded from, they're private by design, and no legitimate tool asks for your Pinterest login to get around that.
• Image pins aren't videos, for pictures, a long-press or right-click save already does the job.
• Quality tops out at what Pinterest stores. Typically 720p, because most video pins are re-uploads that Pinterest re-compressed.

Pro tip: chase the original

A huge share of Pinterest videos started life on TikTok, Instagram or YouTube. If the pin credits a source, or a watermark gives it away. Downloading from the original platform usually gets you better quality: use the TikTok, Instagram or YouTube tool with the original link. The Pinterest download is the fallback when the original is gone, which, on the internet, is eventually.

Download only content you own, have permission for, or that is freely licensed, see the legality explainer. Not affiliated with Pinterest Inc.