3 Free Ways to Download TikTok (Musical.ly) Videos without Watermark

Updated Mar 30,2020 | by Cody

In August 2018, Musical.ly merged with TikTok to become the world’s largest short-form video platform. You probably will find some videos worth watching many times, so you want to download Musical.ly videos for offline watching.

If that’s your case, your search has ended. In this article, I will show you 3 free methods (no ads, no limitations) to download Musical.ly, AKA, TikTok videos on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch with or without Watermark. You can also save the audio-only on your iPhone.

If you are using iOS, things are easy. You can simply run a shortcut to download videos from Musical.ly (TikTok) on your iPhone and save it to Camera Roll. Let’s see how it works.

Step 1. Download Shortcuts app from AppStore if you haven’t. Then grab this TikTok Downloader shortcut. You need to open this link in Safari.

Step 2. In the Musically app, find the video that you want to download. tap Share and select Copy Link.

Step 3. Open Shortcuts app and run the TikTok Downloader shortcut.

Step 4. Select to Save the video (without watermark) or Save Audio only.

If you choose Video, then video will be automatically saved to iPhone Camera Roll. If you choose to extract audio from video, it will bring out Files app to let you select a location to save the audio file.

If you want to download music video with watermark, simply open the shortcut and change the action Select Item From List to first index.

There is also an online web tool to help you download videos from Musically (TikTok). Since it is a web-based tool, you can use this method on Android device, iPhone, or PC. Just go to this web tool page and paste the URL of the TikTok video that you want to download.

Wait a few seconds, you should have a download button available. Just click on it to start downloading. By using this method, there is no watermark in the downloaded video. However, this web tool has some pop-up ads. It is recommended to have an adblocker web extension turned on. 

As you know it is tricky to download files on iPhone. If you want to use this method on iOS device, you can install the Documents app, which is also free in AppStore. You can use the browser in the Documents app to download files.

If you do not like the annoying pop-ups, there is another method to download TikTok videos using your computer. In this method, you only need a web browser.

Step 1. Just open your favorite web browser. It is all good whether is Chrome or FireFox. Paste the Musically video link in the address bar and press Enter.

Step 2. Press F12 or right click and select Inspect to open the Developer Tools.

Step 3. Click on the Network tab in Developer Tools, and then click on Media below that.

Step 4. Play the video and you will see the download link of the video below. Just double-click on it to open the link in a new tab.

Step 5. In the new tab, right-click on the video and select Save Video as to download this video.

If you use the third method to download Musically videos, you can use a tool called IOTransfer to easily transfer the video to your iOS device without iTunes. Unlike the complexity of iTunes, IOTransfer allows you to transfer videos to iPhone by dragging and dropping. Besides, It allows you to download videos from YouTube, Facebook, Dailymotion, Twitch, and many other websites. 

With its simplicity, even you see it for the first time you will know how to do what you want to do with it. what’s really amazing about this tool is that you do not even need a USB cable in order to transfer files using Wi-Fi File Transfer.

Now, it is your turn. Which of these methods of downloading Musically videos are you going to try first? If you have any other thoughts on this, leave it in the comments section. 

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