How to Save Hulu Video to iPhone and iPad

Updated Apr 12,2018 | by Cody

Some TV shows or movies on Hulu are really amazing. Some videos are really worth watching multiple times. To watch them in a more convenient way, you can save Hulu video to iPhone and iPad.

Unlike Netflix, Hulu does not allow you to download videos, not even the Hulu Originals. It is rumored that Hulu will introduce a download mode in coming months. Hope it comes really while it is still unavailable, luckily, you can use this workaround to download Hulu shows.

iPad or iPhone is a very good portable device to watch Hulu movies and TV shows while on the go. If you travel a lot, it is really convenient to watch Hulu videos offline on your iPad or iPhone.

If you need to go outside of the United States and Japan, it is quite necessary to download Hulu videos to your iPhone or iPad in order to catch up with your favorite shows.

All you need is a tool called IOTransfer that allows you to save downloaded Hulu Videos to your iPhone or directly save online videos to your iOS devices.

You can follow the steps below to get it started.

Step 1. Download and install IOTransfer on your Windows PC. It supports Windows 10/8/7.

Step 2. Connect your iPad or iPhone to this PC and confirm this connection on your iOS device.

Step 3. Go to the video page and copy the video URL.

Step 4. Within IOTransfer, click the VIDEO tab and paste the URL into the box. Tap the checkbox 'Automatically transfer the downloaded videos to your iOS device'.

Step 5. Click on the Download button in IOTransfer to start the downloading. 

When it finishes, you can watch the downloaded video with the TV app on your iPhone. If you have downloaded online video from other tools on your computer, you can click Manage Tab to select and transfer videos to iPhone or iPad with IOTransfer.

If you do not want to download a Windows tool for this, you can also use an online video downloader tool to download Hulu episodes or movies.

You can follow the steps below to download Hulu movies or TV shows.

Step 1. Go to the Hulu site and play the Hulu video that you want to download.

Step 2. Copy the Video URL of the playing video.

Step 3. Go to an online video downloader site, paste the URL in the blank box, and click Download.

Step 4. After analyzing the URL, you will see a few downloading links with different Video quality and file extension. Just click on the one suits you and start to download Hulu videos.

Besides videos from Hulu, you can also use this tool to download videos from YouTube, Vimeo, Facebook, etc.

Besides these two methods, you can also use other tools to download Hulu Video for offline watching, such as Freemake Video Downloader, RTMPDumpHelper, and Video Downloader Pro.

You can also use screen recording software like Any Video Converter to record Hulu videos and save the recorded shows to your iPhone and iPad.

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