Take it off the clock.
A public Spotlight clip or story link is all the box needs. The video comes down as an MP4, ready for your iPhone camera roll or your Android gallery, and a PC files it under Downloads.
Paste a Spotlight or public story link and I'm off.
Blink. Fastest shutter in the family, and I love a race: a public story gives me a day, a highlight gives me longer, I need about three seconds.
Three kinds of snap. Blink catches two.
Stays up
Eleven replays in, you might as well keep it.
Spotlight clips stay on the creator's profile until they delete them, so a copied link usually keeps working. It comes back as one MP4 with its sound. Audio only saves the soundtrack alone (MP3), and No sound saves a silent copy.
Creators come here too, mostly for a copy of the clip that took off.
24 hours
A public story usually stays up for a day. Paste its link inside that window and the snaps arrive as a set, videos as MP4 and photos as images: keep one, or tap Save all. The whole set is one download. A highlight is different: only its first clip comes through.
Snapchat came up with the vanishing story in October 2013. Instagram launched its own less than three years later, and its boss said Snapchat deserved all the credit. Polly, our Instagram camera, would rather not talk about it.
Never
Snaps sent to you, private stories and friends-only posts never leave Snapchat. Our server sees what anyone on the open web can see, and a private snap was never posted there.
If a site asks for your Snapchat password to open a private snap, it wants your account. Close the tab.
Will they know?
Only if you tell them.
(Please do.)
We fetch public snaps from our own server without logging in to Snapchat, so your account never comes into it. Opening the snap in the app to copy its link counts as a view, and a public story's creator can see who viewed it. If you post it anywhere else, tag the person who made it.
Too late?
Once it's gone from Snapchat, it's gone for us too.
An expired story isn't served anywhere, so there's nothing left to fetch. Spotlight clips don't expire at all.
Two taps in Snapchat, one paste here.
Play the Spotlight clip or public story in the Snapchat app. On a computer, snapchat.com does the same job in any browser.
Tap the share arrow and it's there. Some stories hide the arrow, and pressing and holding the snap brings up more options. In a browser, the address bar holds the same link.
The box is under the clock. The clock stops as soon as it sees a snap link.
Blink comes back with the file, and Save puts it wherever your phone keeps downloads.
On an iPhone it sits in the Files app, under Downloads, and Photos hasn't got it yet. Open it there and choose Share, then Save Video. On Android, open Downloads, or give the gallery a moment to find it. A computer puts the MP4 in its Downloads folder.
The clock's still running.
Somewhere a story is ticking down. The box is at the top of the page.
Download a snapPublic snaps only. Spotlight clips, public stories and highlights (the first clip). Private snaps and friends-only stories never.
Limits. 5 downloads per rolling hour and 10 per rolling day, for each visitor. A story saved in one go is one download. A link that fails costs nothing, and neither does the same link again within 30 minutes. When you run out, a countdown under the box shows the wait.
Length. Videos longer than an hour are turned away.
Your files. Never kept. Each one goes through our server and on to you; the save link stops after about 10 minutes.
Audio. MP3 only.
Your account. Never needed. This page doesn't ask for a Snapchat login or password.
Cost. None, and there's nothing to install.
Snapchat and Snap Inc. have no part in 9vids.
