cobalt is your go-to place for downloads from social and media platforms. zero ads, trackers, or other creepy bullshit. simply paste a share link and you're ready to rock!
please note that questions and issues may take a while to respond to, there's only one person managing everything.
privacy policy
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cobalt's privacy policy is simple: no data about you is ever collected or stored. zero, zilch, nada, nothing. what you download is your business, not mine.
some non-backtraceable data does get temporarily stored when requested download requires live render. it's necessary for that feature to function.
in that case, information about requested stream is temporarily stored in server's RAM for 20 seconds. as 20 seconds have passed, all previously stored information is permanently removed. no one (even me) has access to this data, because official cobalt codebase doesn't provide a way to read it outside of processing functions.
you can check cobalt's github repo yourself and see that everything is as stated.
what's new?
current version & commit
6.2: all network issues have been fixed!
hey! there have been some hiccups in cobalt's stability lately, i was going through finals while trying to scale up the infrastructure, and that didn't really work out, lol. BUT i'm happy to announce that i've optimized all nodes! there should no longer be any networking issues.
enjoy stable experience while i work in background to make cobalt even better :)
here's what's new in this update: • better button contrast in both themes. • button highlight in light theme now actually looks like a highlight. • removed ip gate for streamables and updated privacy policy to reflect this change. • streamable links now last for 20 seconds instead of 2 minutes. • cleaned up stream verification algorithm. now the same function doesn't run 4 times in a row. • removed deprecated way of hosting a cobalt instance.
thank you for sticking with cobalt, and i hope you have a great day :D
cobalt does not (and will never) serve ads or sell your data, meaning that it's completely free to use. turns out developing and keeping up a web service used by over 300,000 people is not that easy.
if you ever found cobalt useful and want to help continue its development and maintenance consider chipping in! if you want to thank the developer, you can also do that via donations. every cent helps and is VERY appreciated!
cobalt's usage worldwide grows daily and i need to make up for it. as you can imagine, hosting costs grow progressively too. as a year 1 university student, i was not prepared for such expenses :(
i am yet to earn anything from cobalt, everything goes back to users, so you're helping everyone who uses cobalt.
if selected quality isn't available, closest one is used instead.
tiktok
youtube codec
h264: generally better player support, but quality tops out at 1080p. av1: low player support, but supports 8k & HDR. vp9: usually highest bitrate, preserves most detail. supports 4k & HDR.
pick h264 if you want best editor/player/social media compatibility.
vimeo downloads type
progressive: direct file link to vimeo's cdn. max quality is 1080p. dash: video and audio are merged by cobalt into one file. max quality is 4k.
pick "progressive" if you want best editor/player/social media compatibility. if progressive download isn't available, dash is used instead.
format
when "best" format is selected, you get audio the way it is on service's side. it's not re-encoded. everything else will be re-encoded.
removes audio from video downloads when possible.
youtube audio track
defines which audio track will be used. if dubbed track isn't available, original video language is used instead.
original: original video language is used. auto: default browser (and cobalt) language is used.
tiktok
downloads original sound used in the video without any additional changes by the post's author.