To download a Dailymotion video on Android, copy the video’s link, paste it into Kite: Video Downloader, and pick a quality from the list that appears. The video downloads in the background and lands in your gallery as an ordinary file, with no account and no sign-up along the way. Kite is our app, so read this as our honest description of what it does rather than a neutral review.
Dailymotion’s own download is narrower than people expect. Its help centre describes downloading your own uploads through Dailymotion Studio, the creator dashboard, and that is the extent of it: on the website, viewers get no download button on other people’s videos. This guide covers the gap for public videos, explains what the quality list means on Dailymotion specifically, and walks through the handful of reasons a link refuses to save.
What you need
- Kite: Video Downloader from Google Play, on Android 7.0 or newer. It is free and supported by ads, a banner and the occasional interstitial, with no subscription and no account.
- The link to the video. Both the full dailymotion.com address and the short dai.ly form work.
- A public video that plays without signing in.
- A few minutes and some free storage.
For a wider look at the apps in this category, and which of them are actually on Google Play, see our roundup of the best video downloader apps for Android.
Step by step
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Copy the link. In the Dailymotion app, open the video, tap the share icon and choose Copy link. In a browser, copy the address bar. The address contains
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Open Kite and paste. A link you have just copied is picked up from the clipboard, so the address is usually already in the box when the app opens. If not, paste it in. Kite reads the page with yt-dlp, an extraction engine that runs entirely on the phone. Dailymotion is one of a thousand or so sites it recognises, alongside TikTok, Instagram, X (formerly Twitter), Reddit, Facebook, Vimeo, Twitch and Pinterest.
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Or browse instead of pasting. Kite’s built-in browser watches the pages you visit for playable media. Open the video there, press play, and tap the save button when it appears. This is the easier route when you are already browsing Dailymotion inside Kite, and it is the fallback if a pasted link is refused.
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Pick a resolution, or take the audio. Kite lists every version the source offers, each with its container, codec and an estimated size. Dailymotion delivers its video as an HLS stream in a handful of renditions, typically topping out at 1080p on a standard upload, so the list is short and the sizes tell you what each rung costs. Choose one. If you only want the sound, choose MP3 and Kite pulls the audio out with title and artist metadata embedded. Where the video carries captions, you can pick a language and have them written into the file, and a trim range keeps just the part you want.
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Let it download in the background. Because a Dailymotion video arrives as a stream in many short pieces, Kite fetches the pieces and then shows “Processing” for a moment at the end while it joins them into one MP4. Progress, speed and time remaining sit in the notification shade, with pause, resume and cancel beside them. Downloads survive closing the app, an interrupted one resumes rather than starting again, up to three run at once, and there is a Wi-Fi-only option and a scheduler.
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Find it in the library. The finished file lands in a Kite folder that your gallery and file apps can see, and appears on Kite’s Videos tab alongside the video already on your phone, grouped by folder and searchable. Play it in place with swipe gestures, hold for double speed, ten-second skips and picture-in-picture, or move it into the PIN-locked, encrypted Private Vault if it is nobody else’s business.
Playlists and channels
A Dailymotion playlist link is expanded: Kite lists what is inside and saves the items you tick, each as an ordinary download with its own quality choice. A channel page is not a playlist, and Kite does not crawl channels; open the video or the playlist you want and copy that link instead.
If it does not work
The video is age-restricted or private
Kite reads the public page behind a link, the page a logged-out visitor sees. A video that asks you to sign in before it plays, whether because it is age-restricted or private, shows that visitor a prompt instead of a stream, so extraction ends with an error. There is no setting that changes this, and no downloader app changes what the site publishes.
The owner restricted where the video plays
Dailymotion lets owners limit the domains and apps a video may play in; its help centre documents the setting. A video restricted that way may refuse to play anywhere but the sites its owner chose, and Kite reports an error rather than a file. That is the owner’s decision, and the honest answer is that the video is not available to save.
The link is a live stream, or the channel is offline
A broadcast in progress has no finished file to save, and a link to a live channel that has stopped streaming returns nothing at all. Wait for the recording to appear on the channel, if the owner keeps one, then copy that video’s link.
Wi-Fi-only is on, or you are offline
If a download sits waiting instead of moving, check whether the Wi-Fi-only option is switched on while you are on mobile data. Turn it off, or connect to Wi-Fi, and the queue moves. A dropped connection mid-download is not fatal: the task resumes where it stopped.
You copied a search or a channel page
If Kite says it found no media, look at the address you pasted. A video address contains /video/; a channel or search address does not. Open the video itself and copy the link from its share button.
The legal bit
Kite is a tool for personal use. Save only content you own or have permission to save, respect the terms of the sites you visit, and respect the rights of the people who made what you are watching. Dailymotion hosts a great deal of publisher and broadcaster content, and a saved copy is for your own offline viewing, not for reposting. Kite does not bypass copy protection of any kind: material protected by DRM is declined rather than downloaded. And for scope, one honest note: there are certain large video and music platforms that Google Play policy does not allow downloader apps to touch; Kite deliberately excludes them. Dailymotion is not one of them.
The same flow applies on Dailymotion’s nearest neighbour, with one difference in where to look first: see our guide to downloading Vimeo videos on Android, where the site’s own download button sometimes does the job. For the whole picture from the beginning, start with our complete guide to downloading videos on Android.
