Save from any social.
Convert any media file.
In one tap.
Grabio uses what Apple already built into your iPhone - the Shortcuts app , instead of asking you to install yet another app. That's why it's faster, smaller, and more private than every alternative.
Add it once. Long-press any social link or pick a file from your camera roll, tap Share → Grabio. Done.
"What's an Apple Shortcut and why is it better than the website I use?"
Fair question. Most people convert files using online converter websites - full of ads, captchas, and copy-paste pain. Here's why a Shortcut makes those feel ancient, without you needing to learn anything new.
Online Converter & Downloader Tools
y2mate, savefrom, snaptik, cloudconvert, etc.
- ✗Google it. Pick one from 6 ad-filled lookalike sites.
- ✗Copy the link. Paste it in. Pray the site isn't down.
- ✗Solve a captcha. Watch a 30s ad. Skip a popup.
- ✗Wait for the "processing" spinner. Hope it works.
- ✗File lands in Files app - manually move it to Photos.
- ✗Site owner logs every URL and file you ever touched.
≈ 12 taps · 45-90 seconds · 4 ad networks tracking you
Grabio (Apple Shortcut)
lives inside iOS, no app to install
- ✓Already in your Share Sheet - same place as Copy/AirDrop
- ✓Tap Share → tap Grabio → done. Zero copy-paste.
- ✓No ads, no captcha, no popups - ever
- ✓Result lands in Camera Roll automatically
- ✓Server forgets your file in 5 minutes (auto-deleted)
- ✓No phone number, no email, no signup, ever
≈ 3 taps · 8-12 seconds · zero tracking
Think of it as a tiny app - except Apple already installed the engine on your iPhone.
Built into iOS
Every iPhone since iOS 13 has the Shortcuts app pre-installed (the dark icon with two arrows). It's Apple's official scripting framework - same thing Siri uses behind the scenes.
You install it once
Tap our install link → iOS pops "Add Shortcut?" → tap Add. That's it. No App Store review, no 100 MB download, no permissions to manage.
Lives in the share sheet
Open any app - Instagram, Safari, WhatsApp, Photos. Tap Share. Scroll the bottom row. Grabio is right there next to Copy and AirDrop. You never leave the app you're in.
Updates over the air
When new platforms or features ship, the Shortcut tells you and links the update. No App Store wait, no manual reinstall, no broken old version sitting on your phone.
Grabio uses what Apple already built into your iPhone — not a separate app to install.
That's why it's faster, smaller, and more private than every alternative.
Three steps. Then forget it exists.
No tutorial. No setup. No permissions screen. You'll be downloading your first video in under 30 seconds.
Add Grabio
Tap the button above on iPhone Safari. Apple installs the shortcut for you.
Share to Grabio
Long-press any social-media link or pick a file from your camera roll. Tap Share → Grabio.
Pick what you want
Download, compress, ringtone, convert. Grabio shows the right options. Done in seconds.
From shared link to saved file. 4 seconds flat.
A real recording, no fast-forward. This is exactly what you'll do every day.
Download from 6 platforms.
20+ conversion options.
Tap a tab to see what's covered.
Image input
HEIC → JPEG, shrink for WhatsApp/email, strip GPS location data, AI background removal. All in one tap.
Video input
Audio input
PDF tools - coming in v2.1
Most "PDF on iPhone" stuff means opening a separate app, exporting, uploading, downloading. Annoying. Grabio's PDF tab will live in the same share sheet you already use.
Image → PDF
Pick photos from Camera Roll, get one clean PDF. Auto-orient, US-Letter or A4.
Multi-page combine
Multiple images, multiple existing PDFs → one merged file. No 5MB upload limits.
PDF compress
Email-friendly under 10MB without losing readability. Done locally on the server.
Unlock & extract
Remove view-only locks (where legally allowed). Pull out individual pages.
Want to be the first to try? Drop your email below - I send a one-line note when it ships, nothing else.
If your day looks like any of these…
Same shortcut, completely different workflows. Pick yours.
Social media manager
"I run 6 brand accounts. I save Reels for swipe files all day."
- Save Reels and TikToks for swipe files in one tap
- Extract MP3 audio from trending sounds
- Convert HEIC photos before posting
Solo creator / podcaster
"I need clean MP3s from my own videos for the podcast feed."
- Pull MP3 at 320 kbps from your own uploads
- Trim videos to under 60 s for Reels / Shorts
- Make ringtones from favourite track moments
Agency / studio
"WhatsApp won't accept this 50 MB rough cut. Again."
- Compress for WhatsApp without copy-pasting links
- Drop client previews to 720p / 480p in seconds
- Strip audio to MP3 for transcript briefs
Student / lifelong learner
"I want lecture audio for the gym, not the whole video."
- YouTube → MP3 for lectures and audiobooks
- Trim long videos to just the part you need
- Save Reels for inspiration without algo profiling
Brand / e-commerce founder
"My UGC pile lives in WhatsApp. I need it as MP4."
- Compress influencer UGC for your asset manager
- Convert customer photos before product upload
- Save competitor ads from Reels for swipe folders
Power user / automation lover
"I want one button that just figures out what I want."
- Smart type detection: image/video/audio menus
- Chain into your own shortcuts as a sub-step
- Auto-update prompt every launch
Why Grabio replaces 4 different tools.
No more juggling a downloader app, a converter, a HEIC fixer, and a separate ringtone maker.
← swipe to compare →
| Grabio | Other Shortcuts |
Online Platforms |
iOS Apps |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Works inside any app (no copy-paste) | ✓ | Some | ✗ | Some |
| Auto-saves to Photos / Files | ✓ | Manual | Manual | Manual |
| Survives iOS updates | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| No app to install | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| No login or email | ✓ | Most ask | ✗ | ✗ |
| WhatsApp compress (1-tap) | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | Some |
| Custom ringtone | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | Separate app |
| HEIC → JPEG | ✓ | ✗ | Yes | Separate app |
| MP3 with bitrate choice | ✓ | ✗ | Sometimes | Some |
| 20+ conversion options | ✓ | ✗ | Few | Few |
| AI background removal | ✓ | ✗ | Paid | Paid app |
| Crop for IG / Stories (1:1, 9:16) | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | Some |
| Strip EXIF / location data | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | Separate app |
| No tracking, no logs | ✓ | Unclear | Heavy | Heavy |
| No crypto / blockchain ads | ✓ | Common | ✓ | Common |
| Auto-update inside shortcut | ✓ | ✗ | n/a | App Store |
| Free | ✓ 5/day | ✓ | Often paid | $$ |
Why people stick with Grabio
Most tools work. The problem is what they make you do around the work.
- No copy-pasteLong-press a video, tap Share, tap Grabio. Done. Other tools make you copy the URL, switch apps, paste, wait, then save.
- No app-switchingGrabio works inside any app - Photos, Safari, Instagram, WhatsApp, anywhere. You never leave the app you're in.
- No waiting aroundNo 30-second ad screens, no captcha, no "tap continue 3 times". Files come back in seconds.
- No file managementVideos go to Photos. Audio goes to Files. Ringtones land where you'd expect. You never pick a folder.
- No accountsNo email, no phone number, no password to forget. Add it once, use it forever.
- No random uploadsOther tools make you upload your file to their server. Grabio runs it through and forgets it within 5 minutes.
Add it once. Forget it exists. It just works every time you share something.
Free to start. $3 to keep. Here's why.
Free downloaders die in 6 months because ads pay badly and data resale is creepy. Grabio runs on $3 a month from people who use it every day. That's the whole business model. Below is exactly where every rupee goes.
Just trying it out
- ✓5 actions / day - downloads + conversions combined
- ✓Instagram, TikTok, X, FB, Pinterest, RuTube
- ✓Every conversion - MP4, MP3, ringtones, HEIC→JPG, the lot
- ✓No signup, no card, no email
- ✓Full privacy - same as Pro
- ✕YouTube downloads — Pro-only
- ✕AI background removal — Pro-only
Tap on iPhone — iOS shows "Add Shortcut?" and you're done. No login, no card, no App Store.
Daily driver
- ✓30 actions / day - 6× the free tier
- ✓YouTube downloads unlocked
- ✓AI background removal unlocked
- ✓1 license = 1 iPhone (binds on activation)
- ✓7-day easy refund · cancel anytime — one-click via your email receipt
- ✓Funds direct development. No ads, ever.
💛 Drop your email below - you get a one-line note the moment it goes live. No spam.
Heavy user / agency
- ✓Need more than 30 actions / day?
- ✓Running a content team, social agency, or news desk?
- ✓Custom rate, invoice billing, or higher daily cap
- ✓Email me directly. Real human reply within 24h.
Tell me your use case and volume. I'll come back with a number that works.
Because pretending it's free for me is how these tools quietly die.
YouTube genuinely is hard
YouTube changes how their videos are served roughly every 2–3 weeks to block downloaders. Keeping that working - especially at 720p/1080p - is the single biggest engineering cost behind Grabio. Every YouTube download costs me about 15× more than an Instagram one. That's the real number, not a markup.
Convert is free for you, not for the server
FFmpeg burns CPU. A 4K video → WhatsApp-friendly 16MB compress eats roughly 30 seconds of one server core. Multiply by everyone using it that minute and you need beefier servers. $3/mo from a few people pays for the whole box.
No ads. No data resale. No "free trial then sneaky charge."
I could've made Grabio "free forever" with banner ads or by selling your usage to ad networks. I refuse to. Your share-sheet should not become a billboard. Pro at $3 is the fair-trade alternative to that nonsense.
Where your $3 actually goes
Server costs, YouTube unblocking infrastructure, adding new platforms, keeping the iOS Shortcut working as Apple ships updates. Every cent goes back into the product. No marketing budget, no team to feed, no investor returns to chase.
Short answer: no. There's literally nothing to steal.
Most "free" downloaders make money by reselling your activity to data brokers you've never heard of. Grabio is built so even I, the developer, couldn't see what you downloaded if I tried. That's not a marketing line. It's how the system is wired.
No accounts. No emails. No analytics SDKs. No third-party trackers. That Reddit thread you saved at 2 a.m. stays between you and your phone.
No URLs stored
Links live in memory only.
No IPs logged
Used to stop abuse only.
Hashed device IDs
One-way, irreversible.
No account ever
Add. Use. That's it.
Download count only
No URLs, no files — just a number. Auto-deleted in 30 days.
Files wiped in 5 min
Janitor sweeps the disk.
"OK but… are you secretly going to sell my data?"
Honest answer: no. Not because I'm a saint - because there literally isn't anything to sell. I never see your URL, your IP, your phone number, your email, your name, or your file. The server's database is a row of integers ("device-hash-abc downloaded 3 things today"). There's no product to package and resell.
The day I'd want to do that, I'd first have to break my own architecture. That's a lot of effort just to make a few rupees from an ad network. The $3/mo subscriber funds the whole thing instead.
"What if a hacker breaks into your server?"
They'd find a Redis database with rows like grabio:usage:<hash>:2026-05-03 = 4. That's the entire heist. No emails to phish, no passwords to crack, no addresses to dox. The worst-case data breach for Grabio is genuinely boring - and that's by design, not by accident.
"Can I see exactly what gets sent to your server?"
Yes. Open Charles Proxy or any HTTPS inspector on your iPhone, fire the Shortcut, and watch every byte that leaves. You'll see: a SHA-256 hash of your device name, the URL or file you're processing (so we can fetch or convert it), and that's it. No silent telemetry, no "anonymous analytics", no third-party tracking SDKs of any kind.
The "wait, but…" questions.
Real things real people ask before they hit Install.
Files save to Photos or Files where you control them. Grabio doesn't keep anything itself. A 720p WhatsApp video is usually ~15 MB.
Free, no card, no upsell. There's a 5/day cap on social downloads (those fetches cost us money) and a fair daily cap on conversions too. No ads, ever.
Yes. The shortcut is intentionally thin. All heavy logic lives on our server. iOS updates can't touch our backend, so your shortcut keeps working.
Grabio downloads only what you can already access in a browser. For your own content (or anything publicly shared), you're good. Don't redistribute someone else's content commercially.
Because you don't need one. The Apple Shortcut + our backend is the whole product. No App Store, no permissions screen, no SDK to spy on you.
Works fine. Files are typically small. A YouTube video at 240p is ~5 MB; a 30-second TikTok is ~3 MB. Most downloads finish before you notice.
Only public content. Private accounts, friends-only stories, and login-walled posts won't work. By design.
Pinterest, Reddit, Vimeo, Threads are next on the list. Email [email protected] with what you need. Frequent requests jump the queue.
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