Not legal advice — just the clear, honest rules of thumb we apply ourselves. When everyone respects creators, tools like this stay welcome.
The short version
Saving a public video to your own device for personal, offline viewing is broadly tolerated — functionally similar to screen-recording. Re-publishing that content anywhere, in any form, is where rights and law kick in.
Generally fine
- Offline watching on flights, commutes, poor connections.
- Keeping tutorials, recipes or workouts for personal reference.
- Downloading your own posts as a backup (platforms change, accounts get locked).
- Short excerpts for commentary, critique or review under your local fair-use/fair-dealing rules — with attribution.
Not OK
- Re-uploading someone's video to any platform, even with a caption credit, without permission.
- Selling downloads or bundling them into paid content.
- Stripping a creator's own watermark or claiming their work as yours.
- Downloading private or deleted content (we block it anyway).
If you're a creator
Your content matters to us: we add no watermarks, host no library, auto-delete fetched media within an hour, and maintain a live DMCA process with a 72-hour response. Start at our DMCA page.
If you're a viewer
The golden rule: keep it personal. Enjoy offline, learn from it, cook from it — and if you want to share, share the link, not the file. That sends views and love back to the creator who made it.
Quick answers
Does downloading break RedNote's terms?
Third-party downloaders exist in a gray zone of most platform terms — which bind the platform user, not external tools. Our position: we serve personal use, honor every takedown, and never re-publish anything.
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