Creator Rights and Responsible Downloading
Saving a video and republishing it are two different acts. The difference matters more than most people assume.
Personal use is the easy case
Keeping a recipe video for the weekend, saving a clip for a class, archiving your own uploads before deleting an account: none of that is controversial. The file sits on your device and goes nowhere.
The awkward cases start the moment the file is published again.
Reposting is a decision, not a default
- Credit the original creator by name and link, every time.
- Do not strip watermarks in order to pass work off as your own. Removing a watermark for a clean personal copy is a different intent from removing it to claim authorship.
- Do not monetise someone else's clip without permission.
- Ask first when the content features identifiable people who did not choose to be on your feed.
Public content only, by design
Clearlla only reads content that is already public. It has no way to reach private accounts, follower-only posts, or anything behind a login, and that is a deliberate limit rather than a missing feature.
If a creator makes a post private after you saved it, the respectful move is to treat your copy the same way.
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Editorial & Engineering
The Clearlla editorial team builds and tests the downloader every day. We write from hands-on experience shipping Clearlla and saving public media across the platforms we support: TikTok, Reddit, Pinterest, Vimeo, Dailymotion, Streamable, Twitch, Bluesky, Mastodon, and Telegram, on both mobile and desktop.
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