Download Pinterest videos in HD
Pinterest keeps several copies of every video pin, from a small 240p version up to the full-size file. Many downloaders hand you whichever copy they find first. This one asks for the sharpest copy Pinterest has, so a recipe or a tutorial comes out in HD, up to 1080p when the pin was uploaded that way. In our test on a real video pin that meant a 1080x1920 file, where a height-based pick would have returned 480x852.
The file is an ordinary MP4 with H.264 video and AAC sound, so it plays on an iPhone, an Android phone, a smart TV and in any video editor. There is no 4K option because Pinterest does not store video pins in 4K, and no tool can give you more detail than the pin contains.
How to download Pinterest videos on iPhone, Android or a computer
In the Pinterest app, open the video pin, tap the share icon and choose Copy link. That gives you a short pin.it address, which works here exactly like a full pinterest.com/pin/ link.
- On an iPhone, paste the link here in Safari. The MP4 goes to the Files app, and from there you can save it to Photos.
- On Android, the video lands in Downloads and shows up in your gallery.
- On a computer, copy the pin's address from the browser bar and paste it here.
Pinterest video to MP3
Switch to the MP3 tab to keep only the sound: the voiceover from a recipe, the music behind a workout, or a talk you want to hear again without the screen. The MP3 is made from the video pin's own audio track, with the title and cover image filled in. If the pin has no sound, there is nothing to save as audio, and the MP4 is the better choice.
Video pins, Idea Pins and plain images
Pinterest has three kinds of pin that look alike on a board but behave differently. A video pin is one clip and downloads as one MP4, which is the usual case. An Idea Pin is a story with several pages: paste its link and you get the video from the page you linked, not the whole story joined together. An image pin has no video at all, so your browser's own save image option is the right tool, and this page tells you plainly that there is no video instead of pretending otherwise.
Where the clip came from
A lot of video pins are re-uploads from TikTok or Instagram, and Pinterest compresses them again. If the pin description or a logo in the corner points to the original creator, fetch that clip from the source with the TikTok downloader or the Instagram downloader. The original is usually sharper than the copy on Pinterest.
Why people save video pins
A saved pin is a bookmark to someone else's upload, and it stops working when they delete the pin or their account. Saving the video keeps it in your own library. People use it for cooking clips they watch at the stove without wifi, DIY and craft tutorials kept with a project, workout videos that should play at the gym without buffering, and their own pins when the original file is gone.
Download only content you own, have permission to use, or that is freely licensed. See our guide to what is legal. This tool is not affiliated with Pinterest Inc.
