How to Download Your Fathom Video
The short answer: yes, you can download a Fathom video. Open the recording, click the three-dot menu in the top right next to the Share button, and choose Download video. The file saves to your computer. That works great for one meeting.
The problem starts when you have more than one. Fathom has no bulk video download and no video API, so 50 meetings means doing this 50 times by hand. And once you have the files, they are huge and you still cannot search them. For almost everything people actually want, the video is the wrong thing to download. More on that below, but first the steps.
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Download one Fathom video, step by step
Open the recording
In Fathom, open the meeting recording you want to download so you are viewing it full screen.
Click the three-dot menu
In the top right corner, next to the Share button, click the three-dot (...) menu. A dropdown appears.
Choose "Download video"
Select Download video from the dropdown. Fathom prepares the file and it downloads to your computer as a video file. Done, for that one meeting.
The catch: there is no bulk video download
That three-dot method is the only way Fathom lets you download a video, and it is strictly one recording at a time. There is no "download all," and Fathom's API does not expose the raw video at all. So if you have a backlog of dozens or hundreds of calls, your options are to spend an afternoon clicking through every single one, or to rethink what you are actually trying to accomplish.
And here is the thing worth sitting with: a video file is rarely what you actually need. It is gigabytes of data you have to watch in real time. You cannot search it. You cannot paste it into ChatGPT or Claude. You cannot scan a year of meetings for every time a client mentioned pricing. The video is the least useful version of your meeting for almost everything except re-watching it.
What you almost always actually want: the transcript
The transcript is the searchable, text version of everything that was said, with speaker names and timestamps. It is tiny, it archives forever, it pastes straight into any AI tool, and you can search across hundreds of meetings in seconds. If your goal is to keep a record, find what was said, hand a call to ChatGPT, or analyze patterns across calls, the transcript is the answer, not the video.
Get every transcript in one click
This is exactly what we built TranscriptExporter for. It is a Chrome extension, and an Official Fathom Partner, that bulk exports all of your Fathom transcripts at once: 25 meetings in about 30 seconds, 1,000 in about 20 minutes, downloaded as a single ZIP. You can also include AI summaries and your highlights, filter by date, attendee, or meeting type, and export as text, markdown, JSON, or CSV.
So while there is no bulk video download, there is a one-click bulk transcript export, which is the thing most people searching for "download my Fathom meetings" are really after. $29 one time, no subscription, works on Chrome and Edge.
Bulk export every Fathom transcript in one click
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Get TranscriptExporter for $29Common questions
Can I download all my Fathom videos at once?
No. Fathom only supports downloading one video at a time through the three-dot menu, and there is no API for video. For a backlog of meetings, bulk exporting the transcripts is the practical path, and usually the more useful one.
Is there a Fathom API to download video?
No. Fathom's API exposes meeting metadata, transcripts, summaries, and highlights, but not the raw video file. Video is manual-only, one recording at a time.
What format does the downloaded video use?
Fathom delivers a standard video file through the Download video option. Note that recordings can be large, often hundreds of megabytes to gigabytes per meeting.
Do I actually need the video, or the transcript?
If you want to re-watch a moment, the video. For everything else, including searching, archiving, AI analysis, compliance records, and sharing what was said, the transcript is smaller, more useful, and bulk exportable.