If you own an iPhone, you've already had one of these days:
A TikTok or reel you wanted to save — but every downloader site was fake buttons and pop-ups
A YouTube video you wanted offline for a flight, with no clean way to grab it
A WhatsApp video that wouldn't send — a few MB over the limit
A portal that demanded a PDF under 200 KB and rejected every upload
A HEIC photo that opened as nothing on your friend's Android
An Instagram photo that needed a clean white background — and the only good app wanted $13/month
Grabio is the Apple Shortcut I built to end those days. Install once and a full downloader + file toolkit lives in your share sheet — no app icon, no watermark, no cap.
How it works — 3 taps
Tap Share in any app
Tap Grabio
Pick a tool — done, file saved
① Download — share a link, get the file
Opens a clean, ad-free page with your link already loaded (no fake buttons, no malware)
YouTube (up to 4K), TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, X, Reddit, Pinterest, Snapchat, Vimeo, SoundCloud, Tumblr, Bluesky, Dailymotion, Twitch — and 100+ more sites
② Convert & compress — on your iPhone, nothing uploaded
Photo: JPG / PNG · compress · resize · make square (crop or white background for IG) · remove background · strip EXIF / GPS · photo → PDF · Live Photo → GIF
Video: extract audio (M4A) · compress to 720p · trim · video → GIF
Audio: → M4A · → MP3
PDF: merge · compress · PDF → images
Utility: scan / decode QR · generate QR · convert any other format (250+)
What Grabio replaces
ssyoutube / y2mate / snapinsta and other ad-stuffed downloader sites
Smallpdf / iLovePDF (compress & merge PDF)
Image Size / resizer apps
Convertio / CloudConvert (HEIC & format conversion)
Photoroom / Canva (white background for IG)
EXIF-strip privacy apps
QR scanner + QR generator apps
Whitagram / square-fit apps
A dozen apps and sketchy sites → one Shortcut. Nothing on your home screen.
Real situations
Save social videos — link in, clean page, download. No pop-up maze.
Student mid-application — a 4 MB photo → under 100 KB in three taps; shrink a PDF to fit a form
WhatsApp / Telegram — a 60 MB 4K clip → 720p, sends fine
Selling online — white background + square ratio, one tap, no $13/month app
Privacy — strip GPS from photos and your name from PDFs before sharing
Content — Live Photo → GIF that plays on WhatsApp, Discord, Reddit, X
Family tech support — HEIC → JPG in two taps for the Android relative
Grabio vs. the usual apps
Price — they charge $3–13/month or ad-wall you → Grabio is free forever
Daily limit — their free tiers cap you fast → Grabio has no cap
Install — App Store download → none, it's a Shortcut
Account — email / login → none
Your files — uploaded to their server → stay on your iPhone
Ads / watermark — usually yes → never
Why it's free — and stays free
Everything runs on your own iPhone (native iOS actions); downloads hand off to clean third-party sites
My server does almost nothing — stores the shortcut, counts anonymous taps, never sees your files or links
It costs me almost nothing to run → no cap, no Pro, free forever (a real promise, not a trial)
Privacy
No login, no email, no account
Files processed on your device — never uploaded to Grabio
No IP stored, no profile built — anonymous redirect counts only
No ads, no data resale, no watermark on any output
Requirements
iPhone on iOS 16 or later · Shortcuts app (built into iOS) · internet connection