Vimeo Downloader — Free Online Tool

The Vimeo Downloader resolves a public Vimeo video URL to its available MP4 progressive files so you can keep a local copy. Vimeo's audience skews professional — portfolios, client deliverables, festival submissions, documentation — and the platform encodes at noticeably higher bitrates than most social video hosts, so the files that come back tend to be genuinely good quality rather than heavily recompressed.

Availability depends entirely on how the uploader configured the video. Vimeo gives creators granular control: a video can be public but have downloads disabled, be restricted to specific domains, be password-protected, or be unlisted but embeddable. Those settings are deliberate creative-control choices, and a video whose owner has turned downloads off will not resolve — which is the correct outcome rather than a limitation to work around.

The legitimate uses are common on Vimeo specifically because of who uses it: retrieving your own upload when the local master is gone, archiving a client deliverable that was handed over via Vimeo, or keeping an offline copy of a video you have explicit permission to use in a presentation.

Please respect the uploader's settings and licence. Vimeo creators frequently publish under specific terms, and the platform's own download control is the clearest possible signal of intent.

The URL is sent to our server only to resolve the file list and is discarded immediately.

Our Vimeo Downloader is free to use with no signup required. This tool sends your input to CodexStudio's secure servers to complete the task; we do not keep your data after processing. Traffic is sent over HTTPS.

Whether you are a developer, designer, student, or business owner, this tool is designed to save you time and make your workflow more efficient. Bookmark this page to access it whenever you need it — it will always be free.