Built for creators · Teachable · Kajabi · Thinkific · Podia · Skool · Circle

The Video Downloader for Course Creators

Archive your course library, migrate between platforms, and repurpose your content - without losing a single lesson.

Install Vidora for Chrome → See pricing ($9.99)
Teachable Kajabi Thinkific Podia Skool Circle Custom LMS

The problem: your course videos are not really yours anymore

You recorded, edited, and uploaded hundreds of hours of content. But the moment it lands on Teachable or Kajabi, it gets re-encoded and hosted by a third-party video provider (Wistia, Bunny.net, or Vimeo) under their infrastructure. Your original files are on a hard drive you may not even own anymore. If you decide to migrate to a different platform, want to repurpose a lesson into a YouTube video or podcast episode, or your hosting provider shuts down without notice - recovering your content becomes a real problem.

Most course creators only discover this when it is too late: mid-migration with a support ticket open and a deadline looming. Vidora gives you a direct, browser-based way to save your lessons locally as standard MP4 files, while you still have access to them. Think of it as the offline backup you should have made the first time.

This is also the workflow described in detail in our guide on how to save online courses for offline use, which covers the broader context of course archiving and what is legally and ethically sound.

How Vidora helps course creators: 3 real scenarios

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Migrating from Kajabi to Teachable (or anywhere else)

You built your flagship course on Kajabi. Now you want to move to Teachable for better pricing or a cleaner student experience. The problem: Kajabi hosts your videos on Wistia, and there is no export button that gives you back your MP4 files. With Vidora, you open each lesson in Chrome, click the extension, and download the highest-quality stream directly to your machine. Then you re-upload to Teachable. No quality loss from double-encoding, no support ticket asking Kajabi to "please send me my own content."

B

Archiving your full course library before a platform closes

Platform risk is real. Smaller LMS providers fold, pricing changes make staying uneconomical, or you simply want a local archive as a safety net. Vidora lets you work through your course module by module, downloading each lesson. The result is a structured local folder of MP4 files that lives on your hard drive, independent of any platform subscription. Even if your account is cancelled tomorrow, your content is safe. See also: our guide on downloading Teachable course videos for a step-by-step walkthrough.

C

Creating transcripts, podcast episodes, and social clips

Your best course lesson could be a great YouTube video, LinkedIn post, or podcast episode. But you cannot run a transcript tool, a short-form clip generator, or an audio extractor on a stream URL. You need the MP4 file. Vidora gives you that file. Once you have a local MP4, you can feed it to Whisper for a transcript, pull the audio track for a podcast, or cut clips for social in your editor of choice. Content repurposing starts with owning the file.

Works with the platforms you use

Course platforms do not host video themselves - they delegate to specialized video CDNs. Vidora targets those video layers directly. Here is the mapping:

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    Teachable - uses Wistia or Bunny.net for video delivery. Both are fully supported by Vidora's HLS and DASH resolvers. Read the full Wistia download guide and the Bunny.net download guide.
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    Kajabi - uses Wistia as its primary video host. Vidora's Wistia resolver captures the original HLS playlist, including AES-128 encrypted variants, directly from your authenticated browser session.
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    Thinkific - uses Bunny.net and Vimeo as video backends depending on the creator's setup. Vidora handles both. For Vimeo-hosted content, see our Vimeo HLS downloader guide.
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    Podia - uses Wistia for video hosting. Same resolution as Teachable and Kajabi: Vidora intercepts the Wistia HLS stream in-session.
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    Skool - community-based learning platform. Video lessons hosted via embedded players are captured if the underlying stream is HLS or DASH-based without Widevine DRM.
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    Circle - community and course platform with native video hosting. Vidora detects HLS streams served through Circle's video infrastructure.
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    Custom LMS (WordPress + LearnDash, Memberful, etc.) - any platform that embeds video via Wistia, Vimeo, Bunny.net, or a raw HLS/DASH player is within Vidora's reach. Use our free M3U8 detector tool to verify before purchasing.
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    Widevine / PlayReady DRM - if a platform uses hardware-level DRM (rare in the course market, common in streaming services), Vidora cannot download those videos. The overwhelming majority of course platforms do not use Widevine.

Why creators choose Vidora over subscription tools

Pay once. Own it forever.

$9.99 one-time, lifetime license. No monthly charge that adds up over the months you actually need to do an archive run. Compare to subscription tools that charge annually for a workflow you use once or twice a year.

Completely local and private.

Vidora runs entirely inside your browser. No URLs are sent to a remote server. No account required. Your course content stays between you and your hard drive. See the full breakdown in our alternatives comparison.

AES-128 encryption handled automatically.

Most course platforms encrypt video streams with AES-128 to prevent casual downloading. Vidora decrypts and reassembles those segments transparently - no manual key extraction, no command-line tools.

No login. No account. Just works.

Install from the Chrome Web Store, open a lesson, click Vidora. That is the entire workflow. Vidora inherits your existing logged-in session on whatever platform you use, so there is nothing to configure.

Legal and ethical note

Vidora is designed for two legitimate use cases: (1) creators who own the content and want to recover or archive their own videos, and (2) students who have a legitimate, active license to the course they purchased and want an offline backup for personal use.

Vidora is not a tool for downloading content you do not have rights to, distributing downloaded videos to others, bypassing paywalls without payment, or sharing course content publicly. Those uses violate platform terms of service and, in many jurisdictions, copyright law.

If you are a creator archiving your own work or a student backing up lessons you paid for (personal use, no redistribution), Vidora is built exactly for you. When in doubt, check the platform's terms of service for their offline use policy. Our full guide on saving online courses offline covers the legal landscape in more detail.

Frequently asked questions from course creators

Can I download all my courses at once? +

Vidora detects and downloads one video at a time per browser tab. For a full course library, you open each lesson, click Vidora, and download. There is no automatic bulk crawler across an entire course portal. This is intentional: each lesson requires an authenticated session that Vidora captures in-browser, which prevents automated scraping patterns that would violate platform terms.

If I cancel my Kajabi subscription, do I lose my downloaded files? +

No. Once Vidora downloads a video to your device, it is a local MP4 file. It belongs to you. Cancelling your course platform subscription has zero effect on files already saved to your computer. The download is local and permanent.

What about DRM-protected lessons? Can Vidora handle them? +

Vidora handles AES-128 encrypted HLS streams, which is the encryption method most course platforms use (via Wistia, Bunny.net, Vimeo). This is stream-level encryption, not Widevine or PlayReady DRM. If a lesson plays in your Chrome browser without a separate DRM plugin, Vidora can download it. Widevine-protected content (Netflix, some premium platforms) is outside Vidora's scope.

Will the platform or instructor detect that I downloaded a video? +

Vidora works locally inside your browser. It does not make additional requests to the platform's servers. It intercepts the video stream your browser is already downloading to play the lesson. No extra network calls are made to the platform, so there is no download event to detect on their side.

What video format does Vidora produce? +

Vidora downloads and muxes everything into a single MP4 file. It merges the video track and audio track (Wistia and Bunny.net often serve these as separate HLS renditions) automatically in-browser. No external muxing tool needed. The file lands in your Downloads folder ready to use.

Does Vidora work for the courses I teach, not just courses I bought? +

Yes. If you uploaded your videos to Teachable, Kajabi, or Thinkific and they re-encode and host them via Wistia or Bunny.net, Vidora can recover your videos. This is particularly useful if you no longer have the original files on your hard drive. You are downloading content you created and own.

What is Vidora's refund policy? +

30-day money-back guarantee, no questions asked. If Vidora does not work for your specific course platform or use case within 30 days of purchase, reach out to support for a full refund.

Install Vidora for Chrome

$9.99 one-time · Lifetime license · 30-day refund, no questions

Works with Teachable, Kajabi, Thinkific, Podia, Skool, Circle, and any Wistia, Bunny.net, or Vimeo-hosted course

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