It can also download videos in a variety of formats, making it far more useful than ‘just' an app to download Facebook videos. Even downloading your own videos is a laborious process: either you do it yourself, manually, or ask the company to send you all your data, which can take weeks for it to compile.

Remember, Facebook's main purpose is to keep you using it, so making downloads easy is not in their best interest because it takes you away from the app, and keeps you away. It doesn't seem that easy to copy video from Facebook. The file transfer is done within the app, so there's no fussy AirDrop or Bluetooth issues to worry about. We really like AnyTrans because it's just so reliable.

It's a secure, robust file transfer app that can help you manage content across devices. You'll have to transfer the file to another device, which is best done with AnyTrans, available for Mac, iOS, and AnyDroid for Android. Here's a quick tip on how to take a Facebook video download, and watch it on another device. Tricky! Tip: save video from Facebook to iOS or Android devices The idea is to bring you back to Facebook to watch the video with the hope you'll get snared in the social media trap and spend more time in Facebook. It simply saves it as a bookmark within your Facebook account so you can watch it later. This is all you need to do, but keep in mind this does not download Facebook video to your computer, smartphone, or tablet.

Select ‘Save Post', ‘Save Event', ‘Save Link', or ‘Save Video'.

In the corner of the post, you'll see a ellipses menu (…).

Remember when we told you there's a method to save Facebook videos to watch later? We'll show you how to do that, too:

Facebook video downloader for mac free