GrabletSound only
Keep just the sound, as an MP3.
A talk, an interview, a voice note, a song you have the right to keep: the sound without the picture.
Beside a video in the Grablet popup there is a 🎵 button: save the sound only. Grablet lifts the sound track out of the video and converts it to MP3 inside your browser. The video never leaves your computer, and nothing goes to a converter website.
Free and unlimited. No account, no tracking, no watermarks.
Your browser will ask for access to websites. That is how Grablet sees media on the page you are on. Nothing is ever sent to us. Why it needs that
On Android, install Grablet in Firefox for Android. Also available on desktop Chrome, Edge and Firefox. Grablet is not available in Chrome for Android or Firefox on iOS.
How to save the sound of a video
- Install Grablet from the Chrome Web Store, Microsoft Edge Add-ons or Firefox Add-ons. There is no sign-up.
- Open the page and play the video for a moment.
- Open Grablet from the toolbar and click 🎵 beside the video. The MP3 lands in your Downloads folder.
MP3, free, with no length limit
From version 0.1.0.602 on, Grablet sets no length limit on the free MP3. Earlier versions stop it at twenty minutes. The MP3 is made with LAME, the long-standing open-source MP3 encoder, running inside your browser, at a variable bitrate of about 190 kbps: plenty for speech and for music. A long recording takes a while to convert, because the whole sound track is decoded and encoded again.
The original track, as .m4a (Pro)
Converting to MP3 always re-encodes. Grablet Pro can instead save the sound exactly as the site served it, as an .m4a, with no re-encoding and no loss. Choose it once under Settings › Sound only, saved as. Pro also saves the sound of streamed video, which the free MP3 does not.
What it won’t do
- It works on videos playing in a page, not on files already on your disk.
- It lifts out AAC sound, which is what nearly every web video carries.
- On Free, the sound of an HLS or DASH stream is a Pro feature.
And it does not work on YouTube, Spotify or any other DRM-protected service. No setting unlocks them.
Questions
Is the MP3 made on a server?
No. Grablet decodes the sound and encodes the MP3 inside your browser, with a WebAssembly build of LAME. The video and the sound stay on your computer.
Is there a length limit?
Not from version 0.1.0.602 on: Grablet sets no length limit on the free MP3. Earlier versions stop it at twenty minutes. A long recording takes a while to convert, since the sound is decoded and encoded again inside your browser.
Which browsers does it work in?
Chrome, Edge and Firefox.
Which sites does it work on?
The built-in sites such as Instagram, X, Facebook, Reddit and Telegram Web, and any other site you switch Grablet on for. Not YouTube.
Also in Grablet
Free and unlimited. No account, no tracking, no watermarks.
Your browser will ask for access to websites. That is how Grablet sees media on the page you are on. Nothing is ever sent to us. Why it needs that
On Android, install Grablet in Firefox for Android. Also available on desktop Chrome, Edge and Firefox. Grablet is not available in Chrome for Android or Firefox on iOS.