Reddit Video Downloader with Sound (Audio Guaranteed)

Play the file once straight after saving, with the volume up and the phone's silent switch off. On an iPhone the ringer switch mutes some players but not Photos, so a clip can look silent when it is not. Opening it in a desktop player such as VLC gives a clear answer.

If a clip has no sound, look at the options PullDL showed you. A post with a separate audio track gets an MP3 row in addition to the video rows, and that row is a quick sign that sound exists. A post with no such row was almost certainly uploaded silent.

Reddit also allows videos from other hosts to be shown inline. Those are not stored on Reddit, so the audio behaviour belongs to the other site. If you see no sound there, try the matching downloader for that host.

The picture stream is copied into the new MP4 untouched, so it keeps its original sharpness and frame rate. The audio stream is converted to AAC, the format Apple and Android players expect inside an MP4, with timing adjusted so lips and sound stay lined up.

That conversion is the only place where anything is re-encoded. Because Reddit's source audio is already compressed, the extra pass is small, but it means the sound is not a bit-for-bit copy of the original. For casual listening you will not notice it. For forensic or archival work, keep the original link as a reference.

A merged file is built live while you download. If the connection drops halfway, the partial file is not usable and you should start the download again from the result card.

The usual cause is that the audio file could not be located. Reddit names it in a predictable way, and PullDL checks the standard address if the lookup service does not supply one. When Reddit has changed that name for an older post, no audio is found and the video downloads without it.

Try again after a minute, because the lookup services occasionally return half the picture. Another option is to try a different resolution row, since some tiers are served from the merged fallback and carry sound already.

If the clip is a crosspost, use the link of the original post. For posts on private or quarantined communities, deleted posts and anything needing a login, nothing can be saved. Keep downloads for personal use, and ask the uploader before using their clip elsewhere.