What LiftMonkey does

Paste a URL. Get your media. Done. Here's what's behind those three words.

Multi-platform support

One paste box, many sources. LiftMonkey recognizes URLs from the platforms most people actually want to save from, and picks the right extractor automatically — you don't tell us where the link came from.

  • Social: Twitter / X, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn.
  • Video: YouTube, TikTok.
  • US broadcast news: CBS News, ABC News, NBC News.
  • News portals: MSN.

Each platform has its own quirks — private posts, geo-blocks, stories that expire, livestreams that aren't downloadable until they end. We tell you when something can't be saved and why, instead of failing silently.

Adding new platforms is a contained change on our end, not a rewrite. If there's a source you want supported, ask — we track demand.

Cloud destinations

By default, your media downloads straight to whatever device you're on. If you'd rather have saves land in cloud storage automatically — without a manual upload step — connect a destination once and LiftMonkey will route every save there for you.

LiftMonkey pairs with SnapMonkey, our sibling product, for the cloud-routing layer. SnapMonkey already handles the connections to S3, Azure Blob, Google Cloud Storage, and other endpoints — LiftMonkey just hands the file off and SnapMonkey takes it from there.

You stay in control: every cloud connection is yours, in your account, revocable any time. LiftMonkey doesn't keep a copy of your media after the handoff completes.

Photos and videos

Whether the post is a single photo, a gallery, a short video, or a long one, LiftMonkey detects the media type and picks the best quality version available to deliver to you.

  • Photos are saved at the highest resolution the platform exposes — usually full original quality, sometimes capped by the platform itself.
  • Videos are downloaded with audio, in the best-quality stream we can pull. For platforms that serve separate video and audio streams (some YouTube content, for example), we mux them together into a single MP4 file before handing it to you.
  • Galleries and threads with multiple media items are detected; you choose which ones you want.

Quality is whatever the source platform actually serves — we don't upscale or re-encode beyond what's necessary to deliver a playable file.

Personal use only

LiftMonkey exists for one purpose: helping individual users save media they have the right to save, for personal reference and personal archives. That's it.

LiftMonkey is not licensed for any of the following:

  • Bulk downloading. One URL at a time, by a human, for that human's own use. No scraping, no scheduled jobs, no batch tools, no "save every post from this account."
  • Commercial use. Saved media may not be used in a product, service, advertisement, sponsored content, paid newsletter, agency deliverable, or any context where you or someone else is making money from the content.
  • Re-hosting or redistribution. Don't re-upload saved media to another platform, share it as if it were yours, or build a feed/library/site from content saved through LiftMonkey.
  • Circumventing platform restrictions. If a platform blocks something, blocks you, or restricts content to logged-in / paid / specific users, LiftMonkey is not a workaround. We're not in the access-bypass business.

Saving a piece of media through LiftMonkey does not transfer any rights to you. The platform's terms still apply. The original creator's copyright still applies. Llama Vision gives you a tool; it does not give you a license to the content. If you don't already have the right to save and use a piece of media for the purpose you have in mind, LiftMonkey doesn't change that.

Every paste of a URL into LiftMonkey is your confirmation that you have the right to save that specific piece of content for personal, non-commercial use. If you're not sure you have that right, don't paste the URL.

Full details are in the Terms of Service. Misuse can result in your account being suspended without notice.

Questions? Check the help center or read the Terms of Service.