How to Download Reddit Videos With Sound (2026)

You find a Reddit video worth keeping, run it through a downloader, and the file plays in total silence. It is the most common complaint about saving anything from Reddit, and it is not your player or your speakers. Reddit stores the picture and the sound as two separate files, and a lot of tools only ever fetch the first one. This guide explains what is going on, and how to save Reddit videos with their audio, along with images, GIFs and full galleries, straight to your own PC.

Why Downloaded Reddit Videos Are Silent

When you upload a video to Reddit, it does not keep it as one file. It splits it into a set of streams so the player can switch quality to suit your connection: several versions of the picture at different resolutions, and a separate audio track. When you watch on Reddit, the player quietly fetches both and plays them together, so you never notice the split.

The trouble starts when you try to save it. The most obvious video link Reddit exposes, the one many tools pick up first, points at a picture stream only. Download that and you get a perfectly good video with no sound at all. The audio is sitting right next to it, under a different address, and a downloader has to know to go and fetch it, then join the two back together.

That is why the problem feels random. Some tools do the extra step, some do not, and some used to and stopped when Reddit changed how it names the audio file. It also explains why it only happens with some Reddit videos: clips hosted on other sites and linked from Reddit usually arrive as a single complete file, while Reddit's own uploads always arrive in pieces.

What Reddit Lets You Save

Reddit has no download button for videos. On desktop you can right-click an image and save it, but a video player gives you nothing useful, and on the mobile app the share sheet hands you a link, not a file. If you want a copy of a Reddit video on your own device, you need something outside Reddit to fetch it.

Galleries are their own headache. A gallery post holds several images behind one link, and saving them one at a time by hand is slow enough that most people give up after the first.

How to Download a Reddit Video With Sound

StreamStash is a Windows app that saves media from Reddit and other platforms into a local library on your own drive. Saving a Reddit post is free on every plan. The steps:

1. Install StreamStash. Download it for Windows and open it. The free plan needs no account and no card.
2. Copy the post link. On desktop, copy the address from your browser. In the Reddit app, tap Share and copy the link.
3. Paste it into Quick Download. Open Quick Download in the sidebar, paste the link and press Download. StreamStash recognises it as a Reddit link on its own.
4. Watch it land. A card shows the post's title and thumbnail while it works, then links straight to the saved file. The video plays in the built-in player, sound included.

Behind step four, StreamStash reads the post, downloads the picture, finds the matching audio track and joins the two into one ordinary MP4. It copies the streams rather than re-encoding them, so the picture is not touched. It also checks the result has both a picture and a sound track, and runs the same length as the original, before it replaces anything. If any of that fails, you keep the downloaded video rather than losing it.

Got a pile of them? Paste up to 25 links at once. Each gets its own card, and one bad link does not hold up the rest.

Which Links Work

Reddit hands out links in several shapes depending on where you copy them from. All of these work:

• The normal desktop link, the one in your browser's address bar on a post.
• The mobile app share link, the shortened one with /s/ in it that the Reddit app copies. It carries no post id on its own, so StreamStash follows it to the real post first.
• old.reddit links, for anyone still on the old design.
• redd.it short links.
• Links from a user's profile, for posts made to someone's own page rather than a subreddit.

Crossposts work too. When a video is crossposted, Reddit often leaves the copy empty and keeps the actual media on the original post, so StreamStash reads it from there.

What Gets Saved

• Reddit-hosted videos, with their audio.
• GIFs, whether Reddit serves them as an image or as a short video.
• Images, at the size Reddit stores them.
• Every slide of a gallery, in order, including any videos inside it.
• Posts that link out to a direct image or video file, and clips on the most common external video host Reddit posts use.

Everything lands in one Reddit folder in your library, and each card notes the subreddit the post came from. Paste a post you already saved, whether through Quick Download or a subreddit you monitor, and StreamStash tells you it is already in your library instead of downloading it a second time.

Quick Download vs Downloader Websites

Reddit video downloader websites are the usual alternative, and for a one-off clip on a phone they are fine. They vary a lot from site to site, so treat the left-hand column as what you will commonly run into rather than a rule:

The Honest Limits

• Some videos really are silent. If the person who posted it uploaded a video with no sound, there is no audio to add. Those are saved exactly as Reddit has them.
• Text-only posts have nothing to download. StreamStash says so rather than saving an empty file.
• NSFW posts need a Reddit sign-in. Reddit hides marked posts from signed-out visitors, so sign into Reddit in Firefox on the same computer and StreamStash uses that session. It never asks for your password.
• Deleted posts and private subreddits cannot be fetched. If Reddit will not show the post to you, there is nothing to save.
• Single files are capped at 500MB, which is far above the size of a normal Reddit video.

Saving a Whole Subreddit Automatically

Quick Download is for the post in front of you. If there is a subreddit or a Reddit user whose posts you want to keep as they appear, the Power plan adds monitoring: StreamStash checks it on a schedule and saves new posts without you pasting anything, with optional post text and comment archiving. That side of things is covered in how to archive Reddit posts and subreddits locally.

Either way, Reddit media sits in the same library as everything else you save, from TikTok and YouTube to Instagram and Twitch, so it is searchable and playable in one place rather than scattered across a downloads folder. The wider case for that is in stop juggling social media downloader tools.

A Note on Responsible Use

This is for keeping a private copy of posts you can already see, for personal, research or archival purposes. Re-uploading someone else's video as your own, or sharing it in ways its creator would not want, is a different matter and not what this is for. Check Reddit's terms and your local laws, respect the people whose posts you save, and treat your library as the private reference it is meant to be.

FAQ

Why does my downloaded Reddit video have no sound?

Reddit serves its own videos as two separate streams, one for the picture and one for the audio. The main video link Reddit exposes points at the picture only, so any tool that downloads just that link saves a silent file. To get sound, the audio stream has to be fetched separately and merged back in, which is what StreamStash does when you paste the post link.

Is it free to download Reddit videos with StreamStash?

Yes. Pasting a Reddit post link into Quick Download and saving it is free on every StreamStash plan, including the free one, with no daily limit. Monitoring a subreddit or a Reddit user for new posts automatically is part of the Power plan.

Can I download a Reddit gallery with every image?

Yes. Paste the gallery post's link and StreamStash saves every image in it, in order, not just the cover. Videos inside a gallery are saved too.

Does it work with the link the Reddit app shares?

Yes. The share link the Reddit mobile app copies, the normal desktop link, old.reddit links and redd.it short links all work. Paste whichever one you have.

Can I download several Reddit videos at once?

Yes. Quick Download takes up to 25 links in one go. Each one gets its own card showing its progress, and a link that fails does not stop the others.

What if the Reddit video genuinely has no sound?

Some Reddit videos have no audio at all, such as clips uploaded as silent loops. Those are saved exactly as Reddit has them. StreamStash only adds audio that actually exists on the post.