Phantom Recorder — a free Windows program that records TikTok and Instagram live streams the moment an account goes live, saves new Instagram and Snapchat stories by itself, and downloads posts, spotlights and YouTube videos.
🎬 Phantom Recorder — a free Windows program that watches social media accounts and saves what they post. One file, no installation, no Python, ffmpeg is already inside.
It does the one thing you cannot do by hand: be there at the right moment. A livestream is gone when it ends, a story after 24 hours — so it sits in the tray and catches them while you do something else.
📡 Watch — recording starts by itself the moment a watched account goes live, on TikTok and Instagram. The stream is copied through untouched, not re-encoded, and written as it arrives: a dropped connection still leaves a file that plays.
🤖 Automatic — Story Watch saves new Instagram stories before the 24 hours are up. The Snap Watcher does the same for public Snapchat profiles, and needs no account at all.
⬇️ Download — TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat and YouTube: posts, stories, highlights, spotlights and profile pictures at full size, not the cropped preview. Every result is a tile with its thumbnail, resolution and date, so you see what you are about to save. Narrow a whole profile to a period, and what is already on your disk is marked.
📚 Archive — the Library lists everything you kept: what, from whom, how big, when. Searchable, and exportable to CSV.
On the server: downloads with their checksums, announcements when a new version is out with what actually changed, help straight from the developer, and a channel for bugs and requests — what gets suggested here often lands in the next update.
Nothing costs anything, no paid features, no ads. Please only use it for material you are allowed to save — your own, or content you have the uploader's consent for.
