Do I need to install anything?

No. It runs entirely in your browser — there is no app, no extension and no sign-up. Paste a link and the video plays.

Is the video downloaded to my device?

No. Most links play in the platform’s own player (TikTok links stream through our server instead), so nothing is copied to your device and no video is kept on our servers. If you do want a copy, use the downloader on the homepage instead.

Does it work on a phone?

Yes, on both iPhone and Android. Vertical videos from TikTok and Instagram Reels get a tall 9:16 frame rather than being letter-boxed into a widescreen box.

Why won’t my link play?

The usual reasons are that the post is private, the account is login-only, the uploader disabled embedding, or the site has no public player. Age-restricted YouTube videos also refuse to embed. In those cases the link cannot be played by any embed-based player.

Can I share the player link with someone?

Yes. Once a video is loaded, use Copy share link — that produces a URL which opens this page with the video already playing, so the person you send it to does not have to paste anything.

Does it cost anything or show ads?

It is free with no ads on the player itself. Any ads you see inside the video are served by the original platform, exactly as they would be on the platform’s own site.

Can I play a direct MP4 link, not just a platform page?

Yes. A URL ending in .mp4 or .webm plays directly; an .m3u8 stream goes in the M3U8 player instead. Those are handed to the browser’s own video element, so there is no platform involved at all — which also means a link that has expired or is behind a login will simply fail to load.

What is the difference between this and a downloader?

This plays the video where it already lives and keeps nothing. A downloader fetches the file and hands you a copy you keep. Use the player when you want to watch something once; use the downloader when you need the file itself, offline or to edit.

Does the creator still get the view?

On most platform links, yes: YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, Vimeo and the other embeds play in the platform’s own player, so the view is counted as it would be on the platform’s site. TikTok links are streamed through our server instead, so TikTok may not count that view.

Is there a limit on how long or how large the video can be?

Not for platform embeds and direct links: nothing is processed or stored, so length and file size are whatever the source can serve. TikTok, which is relayed through our server, is capped at 300 MB. A three-hour stream plays exactly as a thirty-second clip does.

Online video player

Online Video Player from URL

Paste a URL from YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, Telegram, Vimeo, Dailymotion or Streamable — or a direct MP4 — and it plays right here. No sign-up, no download, no app.

Plays links from

YouTube
Instagram
TikTok
Facebook
Vimeo
Telegram
Dailymotion
Streamable
MP4 file

How to play a video from a URL

1
Copy the video link
Open the video on its own page and copy the address — from the browser bar, or the platform’s Share → Copy link. Short links like youtu.be work too; an fb.watch link needs the full facebook.com address.
2
Paste it into the box
The player recognises the platform as you paste. There is nothing to press: the moment the link is valid, the video is ready.
3
Watch, or send it on
Play it here, or use Copy share link to send a URL that opens straight to the video for whoever you send it to.

What an online video player from a URL is for

Most of the time you do not want to keep a video — you want to see it once. Someone sends a link in a group chat, a post is quoted in an article, a clip is referenced in a thread. Opening it the normal way means loading the whole platform around it: the feed, the suggestions, the cookie banner, the prompt to log in or install the app. Pasting the URL here skips all of that and leaves a single video on a plain page.

Playback uses each platform's own official player, except TikTok, which is relayed through our server. Nothing is copied to your device and no copy is kept on our side, so this is not a download in disguise. And where the platform's own player is used, the creator still gets the view — this is a different way to watch, not a way around anyone.

Vertical clips are handled properly. TikTok and Instagram Reels are 9:16, and most embed-based players drop them into a widescreen box with black bars down both sides. Here they get a tall frame sized to the screen, which on a phone means the video fills it the way it was shot.

Some links genuinely cannot play, and it is worth knowing which. Private posts and login-only accounts serve nothing to any embedded player. Uploaders can switch embedding off for their own videos. Age-restricted YouTube videos refuse to embed by design. In all of those cases the limit is set by the platform, not by this page — and if you need the video itself rather than a viewing of it, the downloader on the homepage handles 1,000+ sites as MP4 or MP3.

Which links and file formats play

Two different kinds of link work here, and they work for different reasons. A platform link — a YouTube watch page, an Instagram Reel, a TikTok, a Facebook video, Vimeo, Dailymotion, Streamable, a public Telegram post — is handed to that platform's own embedded player. A direct file link, one that ends in something like .mp4, goes straight to your browser's built-in video element with nothing in between.

That second case is worth understanding, because whether it plays is decided by your browser and not by this page:

MP4Plays in every browser on every device. If you have a choice of format, this is the one that never disappoints.
WebMFine in Chrome, Firefox and Edge. Safari is uneven depending on how the file was encoded, so a WebM that plays on Android may not on an iPhone.
M3U8 / HLSSafari plays these natively. Other browsers usually cannot without a dedicated streaming player, so an HLS link that works on iPhone can fail on desktop Chrome — the M3U8 player loads one for them.
MKV / AVIRarely play in any browser, whatever the site promises. These are container formats built for desktop players, not for the web (the MKV player explains which ones Chrome can open). Converting one to MP4 first is the reliable route — MKV to MP4 takes a few seconds.

A direct link also has to still be live and public. Links from cloud storage and chat apps are often signed with an expiry, so one that worked yesterday can return nothing today — that is the link having lapsed, not the player failing.

When the platform is blocked where you are

An embedded player is loaded by your browser, from the platform's servers. If your network or country blocks that platform, the embed never loads — and no amount of work on our side changes that, because the request is being made by your device, not ours.

If a link from a blocked platform fails for you, that is the reason, and a different player will not fix it.

Playing a video link on a phone

Most links get pasted on a phone, usually straight out of a chat, so the page is built for that first. Nothing installs, the paste button reads the clipboard where the browser allows it, and the player sizes itself to the screen rather than to a desktop layout.

Vertical video is the part other players tend to get wrong. A TikTok or a Reel is 9:16, and dropping it into a widescreen frame leaves black bars down both sides and a video about a third of the size it should be. Here a vertical clip gets a tall frame, so on a phone it fills the screen the way it was shot.

One thing worth knowing on mobile data: this is streaming, not downloading, so the video uses data every time you watch it. If you are going to watch something more than once, or somewhere with no signal, taking the file with the downloader costs you the data once instead of every time.

If you want to keep the video instead

Watching and keeping are different jobs. This page streams the video where it already lives and saves nothing — good for a link someone sent you that you want to see once. When you need the file itself, to watch offline or to edit, each platform has its own downloader: