About TokLiveRecorder
TokLiveRecorder saves livestreams as original-quality MP4 files. Paste a TikTok LIVE link on the web and we record it for you in the cloud — nothing to install, works on a phone — or use the desktop app for Windows and Mac to record TikTok LIVE, Twitch, Kick, YouTube and X straight to your own drive.
Why we built it
Livestreams are the most perishable content on the internet: the moment a TikTok LIVE ends, it's gone for viewers, and even the creator's private replay expires in 30 days. Meanwhile the people who actually work with this footage — creators archiving their broadcasts, clip studios sourcing material, agencies keeping records of the channels they manage — were stuck choosing between cloud services that compress, expire and meter their recordings, or command-line scripts that need Python and a cookies file.
Then we looked at our own search data and found something we'd been getting wrong: most people looking for a TikTok live recorder are on a phone, and a Windows-and-Mac app is useless to them. So we built the version that meets them where they are — paste a link, we record it in the cloud, you download the file. The desktop app is still there for people who record for a living and want unlimited files that never expire.
What we believe
- Your recordings are yours. Cloud recordings sit in private storage only your account can open, and delete themselves after 7 days. Desktop recordings never leave your computer at all. We don't watch them, share them or train anything on them.
- Original quality or nothing. No 720p caps, no re-compression, no watermarks. A recording that has been squeezed to save us bandwidth isn't worth keeping, and it can't survive being edited and re-encoded again afterwards.
- Say what the tool can't do. An ended broadcast can't be recovered, and a subscriber-only stream can't be reached. We'd rather tell you that plainly than have you find out when it matters.
- Record responsibly. The app is built for recording your own broadcasts and streams you have permission to capture. You're responsible for respecting creators' rights and platform terms.
How the recording actually works
We think it's fair to explain what happens to a stream you hand us, because "record it in the cloud" can mean very different things. When you paste a LIVE link, we resolve the public broadcast address that TikTok already serves to viewers, and copy that stream to a file as it arrives. We are not re-filming a screen, and we are not re-encoding — which is why the MP4 you download is the same resolution and bitrate the platform was broadcasting.
Two consequences follow from that, and both are worth stating openly. First, a recording can only start while the stream is on air; once a broadcast ends, the address stops serving video and there is nothing left for anyone to capture. Second, we can only reach streams that are publicly reachable — a subscriber-only broadcast stays out of reach, and we don't try to work around that.
Who this is for
The people who get the most out of a TikTok live recorder are the ones for whom a lost stream costs something real:
- Creators archiving their own broadcasts — TikTok's private replay expires in about 30 days, which is not an archive. Recording gives you a permanent master of your own work to re-cut later.
- Clip editors and studios — you can't cut highlights from a stream nobody kept. Original quality matters here, because clips get re-encoded again downstream.
- Agencies and teams — keeping a record of what was said on a managed channel is a compliance need, not a nice-to-have.
- Viewers in the wrong timezone — the broadcast you care about airs while you're asleep, and there is no viewer-facing replay to catch up on.
Contact
Questions, feedback or business inquiries: hello@tokliverecorder.com · Legal / DMCA: legal@tokliverecorder.com