Download TikTok stories from public accounts before they disappear after 24 hours. Free, no signup, no account needed, works on iPhone and Android.
A TikTok story downloader saves a story posted to a public TikTok account. TikTok stories disappear automatically 24 hours after posting and cannot be saved from inside the app, so the link must be captured while the story is still live. Once it expires, nothing can recover it.
TikTok stories vanish after 24 hours and the app gives you no way to save one. That combination means the window to keep a story is genuinely short — once it expires it is gone from TikTok's servers and no tool can bring it back. Paste the story link while it is still live and this returns the MP4 TikTok stores, with sound.
Open the story, tap the share icon, then Copy link. Do this before the 24-hour window closes — an expired story cannot be retrieved afterwards.
TikTok is detected automatically, and short vm.tiktok.com links are expanded for you.
Choose a quality and download. There is no reason to wait, since the source disappears on its own schedule.
Stories expire on a timer, so speed matters more here than anywhere else on the site. Nothing is queued or deferred — the file is fetched the moment you paste the link.
Private account stories need an approved-follower session. We do not work around that, and any site claiming to view private stories is asking for credentials you should not give.
TikTok shows story posters who viewed their story from inside the app. Fetching the media through a link does not add you to that list, because no app session is involved.
TikTok stores story video and audio together in one MP4, so nothing needs merging and the file plays with sound immediately.
Runs in any browser on iPhone, Android, Windows and Mac. You only need the link.
We never ask for a TikTok login, and no legitimate tool needs one for a public story.
| Format | Resolution | Audio | Typical size |
|---|---|---|---|
| MP4 1080pAvailable when the poster recorded at this resolution. | 1080×1920 | Yes | 3–25 MB |
| MP4 720p | 720×1280 | Yes | 2–14 MB |
| MP4 480pFree and instant. | 480×854 | Yes | 1–7 MB |
| Cover image | up to 1080×1920 | No | 40–200 KB |
Saved to: Files → Downloads (then Save Video for Photos)
Do this while the story is live — the link stops working the moment it expires.
Saved to: Internal storage → Download
Saved to: C:\Users\<you>\Downloads
Saved to: ~/Downloads
A TikTok story behaves differently from everything else on the platform. Feed videos stay up until the creator deletes them, so a link you saved last year usually still works. Stories are removed automatically twenty-four hours after posting, and that removal is real rather than a display change — the media stops being served, and no tool can retrieve what TikTok no longer hosts.
That single constraint shapes how you should use this page. There is no point bookmarking a story link to come back to later, because the link will have stopped working before you do. If you want to keep a story, the download has to happen while it is still live, which in practice means as soon as you decide you want it.
The other limit is account privacy. Stories on private accounts are visible only to approved followers and require an authenticated session belonging to one of them. That is genuinely inaccessible rather than merely difficult, and it is worth being blunt that sites advertising private story viewers fall into two categories: ones that show a fake progress bar and then an advert, and ones that harvest the login you typed in.
One question that comes up constantly: does the poster see that you looked? TikTok does show story posters a viewer list, but that list is built from app sessions. Fetching the media through a link involves no session and no account, so it does not put you on it. That is a property of how the platform works rather than anything clever on our side.
Two formats with very different lifespans.
| Feed video | Story | |
|---|---|---|
| Lifespan | Until deleted | 24 hours, automatic |
| Save option in app | Yes, watermarked | None |
| Link works later | Usually | No — expires |
| Viewer list shown to poster | No | Yes, from app views |
| Audio | Mixed in | Mixed in |
No. TikTok stops serving the media twenty-four hours after posting, and nothing can retrieve a file the platform no longer hosts. The download has to happen while the story is live.
Not through this. TikTok builds its story viewer list from app sessions, and fetching the media through a link involves no session and no account.
No. Those need an authenticated session belonging to an approved follower. Sites claiming to view private stories are either scams or credential harvesters.
TikTok deliberately omits it. The format is designed to be temporary, so unlike feed videos there is no download option anywhere in the interface.
Yes. TikTok stores story video and audio together in one MP4, so nothing needs merging and it plays with sound straight away.
Twenty-four hours from when the story was posted, not from when you saw it. If it was posted twenty hours ago you have four left.
No. Stories on public accounts require no authentication and we never ask for a login.
Only with permission. Downloading transfers no rights, and the temporary nature of the format suggests the poster did not intend it to be kept.
We do not host any content. All files are fetched directly from the source platform and streamed to your device — nothing is stored on our servers. Download only content you own or have permission to use. If you believe content has been made available in breach of your rights, see our copyright policy.