Reels move fast through a feed, and once one scrolls past it can be genuinely hard to find again later. If you've decided to download an FB reel rather than hope you stumble back onto it, here's the complete process.

Copying the Reel Link

  1. Open the Reel — either from your main feed, the dedicated Reels tab, or a Page/profile.
  2. Tap the paper-plane share icon directly on the Reel.
  3. Select Copy Link from the share menu.

This gives you a URL that points to that exact Reel — nothing else is needed to download it.

Downloading It

  1. Go to FacebookReelDown or the Reel-specific page.
  2. Paste the link into the input box.
  3. The tool identifies it as a Reel and locates the source video file.
  4. Pick a quality option (when more than one is available).
  5. Tap download — the file, vertical aspect ratio intact, saves to your device.

Why the Vertical Format Matters

Reels are shot and posted in a 9:16 vertical frame, and a proper Reel downloader preserves that exactly — no cropping to fit a horizontal frame, no black bars added top or bottom. If a downloaded Reel looks stretched, letterboxed, or cropped differently than it did in the app, that's a sign the tool re-processed the file instead of fetching the original.

Reels From Pages vs. Personal Profiles

Both work the same way from a download standpoint — a public Reel is a public Reel regardless of whether it was posted by an individual account or a business Page. The only real difference is that Page Reels are slightly more likely to include text overlays or captions burned directly into the video, which download along with the rest of the frame since they're part of the file itself, not an app-level layer.

Audio-Only

If the point of saving a Reel was really just the audio — a sound clip, a voiceover, a song someone used — toggle the audio-only option before downloading to get an MP3 instead of the full video file, saving space if you don't need the visual at all.

Saving Multiple Reels From the Same Creator

If you're archiving several Reels from one profile or Page, there's no shortcut that grabs them all in a single action — each Reel has its own distinct share link, so the copy-and-download process repeats per Reel. A practical approach for more than a few: open each Reel, copy its link into a notes app first, then work through the list downloading one after another once you've gathered all the links you want.

What Doesn't Work

Reels from private accounts or closed Groups aren't downloadable, by design — the tool only fetches what's already publicly viewable without a login. There's no workaround here, and any tool claiming otherwise should be treated with suspicion.

FAQ

Is this different from downloading a regular Facebook video? Not mechanically — same process, same tool. See download FB video if you're after the general version.

Do I need to install an app? No — it's fully browser-based on any device.

Will there be a watermark on the download? No, since the file is fetched directly rather than re-rendered.

Is it free? Yes, with no limit on how many Reels you download.

Copy the link, and the downloader on the homepage handles everything else in a few seconds.

Same tool, a slightly different search phrasing — see FB reel download if that's how you found this.