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Upload without the quality hit

Stops the platform from re-encoding your video. Your picture and sound are copied byte for byte — nothing is re-encoded, nothing is uploaded anywhere. It all happens in this tab.

Drop a video here

or click to choose · MP4 or MOV · stays on your device

How to actually keep the quality on TikTok

This page handles one step of three. The other two matter just as much — a perfect file uploaded the wrong way still comes out soft.

  1. Finish the edit before you come here

    Do everything in a real editor — CapCut or whatever you use — including adding your sound. Trimming a clip or adding audio inside TikTok makes it re-encode the video, which throws away everything you are about to gain. Arrive with a finished file and change nothing in the app.

    Export at 1080p, 60 fps. That is the sweet spot: sharp on a phone screen, and smooth on the hardware most of your viewers actually have. 2K and 4K work too — TikTok accepts them, and here they survive intact instead of being downscaled — but they tend to stutter in the feed on ordinary phones, because the app is decoding your video while preloading the next ones.

  2. Run it through this page

    Drop the exported file in above and download the result. Nothing is uploaded anywhere, and not a single frame is re-encoded.

  3. Upload it the right way for your device

    This is where the rest of the quality is won or lost, and it genuinely differs by platform.

    On a computer
    Easiest and most reliable. Go to tiktok.com and upload normally. Desktop web also accepts far larger files than either phone app does.
    On Android
    Upload through the browser rather than the app — the app compresses anything over about 72 MB before it sends it. Open tiktok.com, switch on Desktop site in the browser menu, and upload from there.
    On iPhone
    TikTok's web upload is unreliable here: even with Desktop site turned on, the upload screen appears and then hangs once you tap upload. Use a computer if you can reach one. If you cannot, a third-party posting tool does work — we used Postoria, and there is a short video walkthrough of that route. Tools like that need access to your TikTok account, so pick one you are comfortable handing that to.

  4. Check that it worked

    Once the video is live, paste its link into the quality checker to see exactly what TikTok is serving to viewers — resolution, frame rate and bitrate, read from the real file. If it comes back at the resolution you exported, the upload survived.

What this app does to your file

How it works, in full — including the measurements behind it, what is inference, and what it cannot do. It leans on a quirk in one platform's ingest rather than a feature, so it could stop working without warning; the badge above says when it was last checked against a real upload.

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