Does my video upload?

No. Rotation runs in the browser, so your footage stays put.

Yes, free. Nothing to install, no account, no usage cap.

Which rotations can I do?

90°, 180°, 270°, and horizontal or vertical flip.

Will the rotation change the video quality?

The video is re-encoded at high quality to apply the rotation, so it isn't a bit-for-bit copy of the original. Audio passes through untouched when possible.

Rotate Video – Free, In Your Browser, No Upload

Why is this free? It runs entirely in your browser — we don't pay for a server to process your file, so there's nothing to gate.

Rotate a video in seconds

Drop your video, choose the rotation (or a flip), and download, in your browser.

Nothing uploads

Rotation is applied inside the tab, with no upload step.

Fix sideways phone clips

Recorded in portrait and it plays sideways? Say you shot birthday-clip.mov upright on your phone, but it lands in your editor turned 90°. One turn here bakes it upright and you’re done.

When you’d want this

Phones record in portrait, but some apps save the file with wrong orientation metadata, so the video plays sideways on players that read the raw stream instead of the flag. Rotating 90° (or 270°, depending on which way it’s tilted) bakes the correction in permanently.

A 180° rotation fixes footage from upside-down mounts or dashcams. Horizontal and vertical flips are useful for mirror-image footage: front-facing cameras record a mirrored view that some pipelines need flipped.

What stays the same

Audio passes through untouched when possible, and frame rate is unchanged. The video itself is re-encoded to apply the rotation, so the output is H.264 MP4 (the universal fallback codec). It isn’t a bit-for-bit copy of the original, though there’s no visible quality loss. Pixel dimensions stay the same for 180° rotations and flips; a 90° or 270° turn swaps width and height to match the new orientation.

Format support

MP4, MOV, MKV, WebM, and AVI. Any file your browser can decode can be rotated here.

Common pitfalls

The most common confusion is rotation versus metadata-only orientation. Some tools (VLC, QuickTime) write a rotate flag into the container metadata without actually rotating the pixel data. Those files play correctly on apps that read the flag, but appear sideways in anything that doesn’t. This tool bakes the rotation into the pixel data, so the output shows correctly everywhere regardless of player.

If you need to rotate a video and remove the audio at the same time, run mute video first or after; the order doesn’t matter. Muting is a lossless stream copy that never touches the video, and the rotation step re-encodes the video either way.

Privacy

Everything runs locally in your browser using WebAssembly. The file stays on your laptop or phone from the moment you drop it in to the moment you download the rotated version; there is no upload, no server, and no account.

Need it as text too?

Once it plays the right way up, you can also turn the same clip into a speaker-labeled transcript to search and quote.

Rotate a video, free