Empowering responsible digital archiving for specific educational purposes.
GramSave is a team of developers, digital archivists, educators, and legal consultants passionate about digital preservation and educational access. Founded in 2023, we realized that while social media hosts a vast amount of valuable information—from breaking news reports to intricate tutorial videos—there wasn't a clean, professional, and ethical tool to save this content for offline reference.
Our platform is designed to be the antithesis of the "spammy" downloader sites that plague the internet. We offer a clean, ad-free experience focused purely on utility, compliance, and user education. Unlike competitors who prioritize monetization over user experience, GramSave puts educational access first.
The idea for GramSave emerged from a university classroom. Our founder, a media studies professor, struggled to show students examples of viral social media content because the university's firewall blocked most social platforms. Even when accessible, videos would disappear—creators deleted posts, accounts got suspended, or content was taken down for copyright claims.
This sparked a realization: ephemeral social media content needed ethical archiving solutions. After consulting with copyright lawyers, digital rights advocates, and educators across 15 universities, we built GramSave with three core principles: legality, privacy, and accessibility.
Our mission is to provide high-quality, client-side tools that allow users to archive publicly available digital content for personal use, research, and education, without violating the integrity of the original creators' rights. We aim to bridge the gap between ephemeral social media and lasting educational resources.
We believe that knowledge should be preservable. When a documentary filmmaker posts historical footage on Instagram, or a scientist explains a breakthrough on TikTok, that content has educational value beyond its viral moment. GramSave ensures these digital artifacts can be studied, referenced, and learned from—even offline.
We prioritize features that help students, teachers, and researchers organize their findings. Every design decision is evaluated through the lens of educational utility. We actively partner with schools and universities to understand their archiving needs.
No user data collection, no account requirements, and transient processing only. We don't use cookies for tracking, we don't sell data to advertisers, and we don't require email addresses. Your archiving activity is your business alone.
We actively discourage misuse and piracy. We provide resources on Fair Use, maintain a comprehensive blog on copyright law, and clearly state our terms. We've consulted with intellectual property attorneys to ensure our tools operate within legal boundaries.
We are open about how our technology works and what it can and cannot do. Our technical documentation explains our client-side architecture. We publish regular updates about platform changes and how they affect our service.
Unlike other generic tools, we are optimized for the educational user experience:
We take our ethical responsibilities seriously. GramSave operates under a strict code of conduct:
As social media evolves, so does GramSave. We're constantly researching new platforms, improving our algorithms, and listening to educator feedback. Our roadmap includes support for additional platforms, enhanced metadata preservation, and tools specifically designed for academic citation.
GramSave is an independent tool. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, or their parent companies (Meta, Bytedance). We function as a technical facilitator for the user to perform their own archiving. We do not host any copyrighted content. Users are strictly responsible for their own actions and must adhere to the copyright laws of their jurisdiction.