Save Reddit videos and images
Save a Reddit video or image straight from the post. Protego downloads it so you can share it or save it to Photos or Downloads.
Sending a Reddit video to someone usually means sending a link, and a link is only as good as the post behind it. A saved file is yours instead. The video stays a video, the image keeps its original size, and both are still there next month whether or not the post is.
Start a save from the post itself
The Protego menu on a post, on new or old Reddit, offers Save video or Save image whenever Reddit hosts the media itself. Either one opens Protego, which fetches the file while your Reddit tab stays where it was. Text posts, galleries, and posts pointing at media hosted elsewhere have nothing to fetch, so the menu offers no save.
Get the sound with the video
Reddit stores a video’s picture and its sound as two separate files, which is why a hand-saved Reddit video so often comes out silent. Protego saves the two as one file, so the video plays with sound at the quality Reddit served.
Save an image at its original size
A Reddit-hosted image post saves the original file rather than the downsized copy the page renders, so the picture keeps the resolution and the format it was uploaded in. A GIF post saves as the real GIF file, not the shrunken preview the page plays in its place.
Send the file on without saving it anywhere
Share comes first once the download finishes, because sending a clip to someone is usually the point, and one tap sends it to Messages, AirDrop, or Photos. The file is named after the post’s title, so the person receiving it sees what it is.
Keep the file on your device
A one-tap button keeps the file instead of sending it on: Save to Photos, or Save to Downloads on a Mac. Protego needs only add access to Photos and never reads your library. Nothing is written anywhere until you tap it, and dismissing the save without choosing discards the download.
Try again when a save fails
A save that cannot finish says what stopped it, whether Reddit was out of reach or the post’s video is gone. Start the next attempt from the Protego menu on the post. If Photos can’t save the copy, the download stays, and Share can still send it.