Download Douyin videos outside China
Douyin is TikTok's sibling app for the Chinese market. It comes from the same company and shares the same idea, but it runs as its own platform, with its own servers, its own accounts, and its own pool of content. Many of the clips that go viral on TikTok were already doing the rounds on Douyin weeks earlier, and plenty of the best material never crosses over at all. There's a huge catalogue of cooking, engineering builds, street food, and dance that most TikTok users never come across.
If you've found something on Douyin worth keeping, SnapTik fetches it exactly the way it fetches TikTok videos. Paste a douyin.com link, or one of the short v.douyin.com share links the app generates, into the box above. A few seconds later you'll have the original MP4 without the Douyin watermark, plus the audio as a separate MP3 when it's available.
No VPN, no Chinese phone number, no app
The usual obstacles to saving Douyin content don't apply here. You don't need a VPN, because the fetching happens from our servers, not your connection. You don't need a Douyin account, which is fortunate since registration requires a Chinese phone number. And you don't need the Douyin app installed, because all you're supplying is a link. If someone sent you a Douyin video in a group chat, that link alone is enough.
How to download a Douyin video
- In the Douyin app, tap the share icon on the video and choose the copy link option.
- Douyin wraps the link in promotional text. Paste the whole thing here; SnapTik finds the URL inside it automatically.
- Press Download and pick your format: MP4 without watermark, or MP3 for the audio alone.
- The file saves to your device like any normal download. On phones, check your Downloads folder or gallery.
Original quality, no watermark
Douyin stamps its own animated watermark on videos saved through the app, the same way TikTok does. SnapTik pulls the source file from before that stamp is applied, so downloads come out clean. Quality matches the original upload, and where a higher-resolution version exists you'll see it offered separately with its file size listed. Nothing is re-encoded along the way, which means no generation loss and no mystery compression.
Douyin audio as MP3
Chinese remixes and original sounds from Douyin often surface on TikTok months later, badly re-recorded. If you want the sound at its source, every result includes an MP3 extraction of the full soundtrack. It's the same one-click process as video: paste the link, choose MP3 instead of MP4.
SnapTik handles the rest of the short-video world too: the TikTok video downloader covers regular TikTok posts, the TikTok photo downloader saves image posts, and the TikTok story downloader catches stories before they expire.