How to Save Pinterest Videos to Any Device: The Complete Guide

Pinterest lets you save a pin to a board, but it never lets you save the video behind that pin to your own device. This guide covers the one workflow that works everywhere, explains what file you end up with, and points you to the detailed article for your device or your problem.

Why there is no download button for video

Pinterest does offer a built-in way to keep an image. Open a pin, tap the three-dot menu, and you will find a download option, which Pinterest documents in its help article on downloading an image. Video pins do not get the same treatment. The app and the website play video inline, and the menu offers Save (to a board), Share and Copy link, but nothing that writes an MP4 to your storage.

The reason is a mix of product design and platform rules. Pinterest wants you to keep pinning inside Pinterest, and creators upload with the expectation that their work stays on the platform. That is worth remembering later when you decide what to do with a saved file. The short version: the video is still on Pinterest's servers, just not exposed as a file, and a downloader's job is to find the file that is already there.

The universal workflow

Every device, every browser, the same four steps. The only thing that changes between an iPhone and a Windows laptop is how you copy the link.

1. Open the pin itself

Make sure you are looking at a single pin, not a board, a profile or a search page. A pin URL looks like pinterest.com/pin/<long number>/. Boards and profiles contain many pins, and a downloader cannot guess which one you meant.

2. Copy the link

In the Pinterest app, tap the share icon and choose Copy link. On the website, copy the address bar or use the share menu. The app usually hands you a short pin.it link rather than the full URL; both work with KeepPin, which expands short links on its own.

3. Paste it into KeepPin

Go to KeepPin's video downloader, paste the link into the box and press the button. KeepPin reads the pin page, finds the video rendition Pinterest stores, and shows you what it found. Nothing is uploaded from your device, and you do not need an account.

4. Save the file

Tap the download button. On a phone the file goes to your Downloads folder or Files app; on a desktop it goes wherever your browser keeps downloads. The link you are given is signed and expires after five minutes, so if you wander off and come back later, paste the pin link again rather than reusing the old download link.

What you actually get

The file is an MP4, which is the container Pinterest itself uses for the renditions it serves to the app. The resolution is whatever Pinterest stores for that pin. For most pins that means 720p. Some pins have a 1080p or 4K rendition, but only when the original upload had that many pixels and Pinterest kept them. No downloader can add detail that is not in the source, so if a pin looks soft in the app, the file will look soft too. The full picture, including how to read the resolution of a file you already saved, is in what resolution Pinterest videos really are.

Two related points people ask about:

Watermarks. Pinterest does not burn a logo into the source video, so a properly fetched file has none.
Sound. If the pin was uploaded muted, the file is muted. The app playing silently by default is a separate matter from the file lacking an audio track.

Device-specific notes

The steps above are identical everywhere, but each platform has its own habits about where files land and how the share sheet behaves. Pick your device:

Device	What differs	Detailed guide
iPhone and iPad	Safari's download manager, Files versus Photos, videos opening inline	Saving Pinterest videos on iPhone and iPad
Android phone	Downloads folder versus Gallery, storage permissions, data saver	Keeping Pinterest videos on an Android phone
Mac or Windows PC	Address bar copying, keyboard shortcuts, saving many pins by hand	Downloading Pinterest videos on a Mac or Windows PC

If you use more than one device, the pin link is the portable part. Copy it on your phone, send it to yourself, and paste it on the computer where you want the file.

Images and GIFs use the same idea

Pinterest shows scaled previews of images while keeping the original upload on its CDN. KeepPin's image downloader fetches that original rather than the preview, which matters for infographics and anything you plan to print. The details, including how to confirm you got the full-size file, are in how to save Pinterest images at full resolution.

Animated pins are less predictable. Some are real .gif files; many are silent MP4 loops that Pinterest presents as GIFs. The GIF downloader gives you whichever format Pinterest actually stores, and saving Pinterest GIFs and animated pins explains how to tell the two apart before you download.

What cannot be saved

A downloader visits Pinterest as a logged-out stranger. Anything that stranger cannot see, the downloader cannot fetch:

pins on secret boards
pins from private or restricted accounts
content that only appears after you sign in
pins that have been deleted, even if the link still exists in your history

There is no workaround for these inside KeepPin, and any tool claiming otherwise is either asking for your Pinterest password or not telling the truth. If it is your own secret board, Pinterest's built-in image download still works for images, or you can make the board public briefly.

Is this allowed?

Saving a file for your own reference is a different question from reposting it. Copyright stays with the person who made the video, regardless of who downloaded it, and Pinterest's terms have their own rules about taking content off the platform. Personal use is the low-risk end of the scale; re-uploading someone's video as your own is the high-risk end. Is it legal to download Pinterest videos? walks through the three separate questions in plain language, and the copyright notice explains how KeepPin handles complaints from creators.

What happens to your link

KeepPin does not store the video, the pin link or a copy of anything. When you paste a link, KeepPin parses the pin page, signs a short-lived download link, and the file streams from Pinterest's CDN to your browser. That is why the link expires and why there is no history page to clear. How KeepPin works describes each step, and the privacy policy puts it in formal terms.

When it does not work

Most failures come down to a handful of causes: the copied link points to a board rather than a pin, the pin is private or deleted, the pin is actually an image, the browser opened the video instead of saving it, or the five-minute link expired. Run through Pinterest video won't download: 9 causes and fixes in order, and you will usually find the answer within the first three items.