Utilities
Rotate a video
Choose a video, tap Left or Right until it stands upright, and download.
How it works
- Choose your videoPick an MP4, MOV or MKV. It opens in your browser and nothing is uploaded.
- Turn itTap left or right. The preview shows how the video will play.
- Download itThe turn is saved in the file’s header, so nothing is re-encoded and the quality stays the same.
Save and continue on the desktop
Download or copy your result here first. Open the free desktop to save to Files or use more features.
- Trim and remove the sound too in the full Video Editor
- Save to Files when you continue on the desktop
- Every tool in one place, no new tabs
After you download, continue on the desktop for Files or the full app.
What Rotate Video can do
A turn in the file, the way phones do it
A phone writes into every video which way up to show it. This page changes exactly that note and copies the picture as it is, so the turn takes a moment even for a long video and costs no quality. Phones and players that show phone videos upright show this one upright too; a few old desktop programs ignore the note and play the video as it was filmed.
Left or right, a quarter at a time
Each tap turns the video a quarter, and the preview shows how it will play. Mirroring a video or straightening it by a few degrees would mean re-encoding every frame, which this page does not do.
What you get
An MP4, MOV or MKV comes back as MP4, with the sound untouched. A WebM has no place to store a turn, so the page says so instead of re-encoding it. Nothing is uploaded: the video is turned in this browser tab.
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Questions
Why does my video play sideways?
The phone recorded which way up it was held and got it wrong, usually because it lay flat when you started filming. Turning it here rewrites that note.
Does rotating lose quality?
No. Only the note in the file changes; the picture and sound are copied as they are.
Is my video uploaded?
No. Everything happens in this browser tab, and the video never leaves your device.