Video & Audio
Rotate Video
Turn a sideways or upside-down video the right way up. No upload, no signup.
Files stay on your device How it works
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MP4, MOV, WebM or MKV · one file, up to 25 MB
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How to rotate a video
- Choose a video, MP4, M4V, MOV, WebM or MKV, up to 25 MB and 30 minutes long.
- Pick the turn: if the top of the picture points left, 90° clockwise; if it points right, 90° counterclockwise; if it’s upside down, 180°.
- Press Rotate video and download the copy: holiday-clip.mov becomes holiday-clip-rotated.mov.
Why videos play sideways
A phone stores its video one way round and writes how it was held into the file as a rotation setting, which players follow. When the phone guesses wrong, because it lay flat on a table or turned just as recording began, the video plays sideways or upside down. A clip passed through another app can arrive turned too.
How it’s turned
- MP4 and MOV: these files keep a rotation setting, so by default only that changes. It’s quick, nothing is re-encoded, and nothing is lost.
- Turn the pictures themselves: a few players and some editing apps ignore the rotation setting. Tick this and the video is re-encoded as H.264 with its pictures stored the right way up. It’s slower and can lose a little quality.
- WebM and MKV: these have no rotation setting, so they’re always re-encoded: as VP9 for WebM, as H.264 for MKV.
- From how it plays now: the turn you pick is added to the way the video plays at the moment.
Which browsers work
Changing the rotation setting works in current Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari. Re-encoding uses your browser’s own encoder: current Chrome, Edge or Firefox, or Safari 16.4 or later. HEVC (H.265) video from an iPhone has to be decoded first, which works in Safari, and in Chrome or Edge only on computers whose hardware decodes it, not in Firefox. Re-encoded video is at most 1920 × 1080.
Good to know
Your video stays on your device; nothing is uploaded. The sound is copied as it is, and an M4V comes out as an MP4. The result shows the picture size as it now plays, so after a quarter turn a 1920 × 1080 video reads 1080 × 1920. Keep the original until you’ve checked that the copy plays the right way up. To turn photos rather than a video, use Rotate and Flip Image; to turn the pages of a PDF, use Rotate PDF.