Free SoundCloud Downloader

SoundCloud is where a great deal of music lives before it reaches anywhere else: DJ sets that run for two hours, demos, remixes, podcast episodes, field recordings and back catalogues that never made it onto the big streaming services. It is also a platform people listen to on the move, which is exactly when a phone drops to one bar of signal.

ClipSave resolves a public SoundCloud link in the browser and hands you the audio as an MP3. Copy the track's address from SoundCloud, paste it into the field above, press Fetch, and you get the title, the artist, the artwork and the length so you can check you have the right track before you save anything.

There is no desktop app to install, no browser extension and no ClipSave account. The tool is free to use: after three fetches it asks you to answer one small sum, then you get three more, which is how automated scraping is kept off the service without making everyone sign up.

Standard track pages (soundcloud.com/artist/track) and the app's share links (on.soundcloud.com/xxxxx) both resolve. A link that carries extra tracking parameters after a question mark is fine — copying the plain address is simply tidier.

What cannot be fetched is anything the platform does not serve publicly. Private and unlisted uploads, tracks locked behind SoundCloud Go+, previews that only play 30 seconds, uploads geo-blocked in our servers' region, and anything the artist has since deleted will all fail. When that happens the tool reports that it could not find the track's data rather than guessing.

The quickest way to tell the difference between a broken link and a restricted track is to open it in a logged-out browser tab. If it will not play there, no downloader can reach it either — the audio is simply not being served to the public.

Most of what is uploaded to SoundCloud is somebody's copyrighted work, and a downloader does not change that. Saving a track to listen to offline, on a commute or a flight, is the ordinary private use people have always made of recordings. Re-uploading it, putting it in a video, playing it in a venue or selling it is a different matter entirely, and it needs the rights holder's permission.

Plenty of artists enable SoundCloud's own Download button on tracks they want shared, and some link a free download from the track description. Where that button exists, use it: the artist chose to offer the file, the download is counted for them, and you often get a better-quality file than the public stream.

If you hold the rights to something on this site and want it removed, our DMCA page explains how to send a notice and what happens next. Our copyright policy covers what is and is not acceptable use of the tools.