Dailymotion predates most of the platforms in this series by years, and it’s still where a lot of older content lives that never made the jump to YouTube: archived TV segments, older sports clips, regional shows, and uploads from creators who simply picked a different platform back in the day.

Finding the clip is often the hard part. Once you have, Grabio gets it off your phone the same way it handles any other platform link.

At a glance

How to Download Dailymotion Videos on iPhone
Cost
Free, forever
Account
None needed
App Store
No install
Runs on
iPhone, via Shortcuts

Grabio does not recognize Dailymotion by name. Share a video’s link, and Grabio copies it and opens a general download page in Safari, where you paste it.

Steps to download a Dailymotion video on iPhone with Grabio

  1. Add Grabio to your iPhone once, free Apple Shortcut, no login.
  2. Open the video on Dailymotion (app or mobile site) and tap Share.
  3. Tap Grabio in the share sheet. If the app does not list it, open the link in Safari and share it from there.
  4. Grabio copies the Dailymotion link and opens a general download page in Safari.
  5. Tap the box, then Paste, tap Extract Formats, pick a format and download, then save the video to Photos or Files.

Why archived platforms matter for actually keeping content

Older platforms lose content more often than people realize, uploaders close accounts, licensing changes pull a regional show, and a video you found once through a search might not surface the same way a year later. If you found something on Dailymotion worth keeping, that’s a reasonable moment to actually download it rather than bookmark the page and hope it’s still there later.

Is it private and free on iPhone?

No account, no login, no daily limit. Grabio checks the link on your phone and opens the page in Safari, my server gets only a random anonymous install ID and never touches the video file, and the download page does the actual fetch on its own site.

Use this for content you have a right to keep, not to republish someone else’s upload as your own.

Download Dailymotion videos on iPhone: FAQ

Does this work on both dailymotion.com links and the short dai.ly links?

Grabio does not recognize Dailymotion links by name, so it treats a full dailymotion.com link and a shortened dai.ly link the same way: it copies the link and opens a general download page. I have not tested either format there.

Can I download an entire playlist at once?

This flow works one video link at a time. For a playlist, share the link to each individual video you want rather than the playlist page itself.

What about age-restricted or region-locked Dailymotion content?

If a video requires you to be logged in or confirms your region isn’t allowed to view it, that same restriction applies here, since the download page can only pull what’s actually reachable at the link you share.

Related on iPhone: download YouTube videos on iPhone, download a video from Facebook on iPhone, or Video & Audio Tools.

Once you have that working, it is worth seeing how it stacks up against the alternatives, the full video downloader for iPhone comparison covers paid apps, ad-heavy sites, and the free Shortcut approach side by side.