Reverse Video – Free Online Tool
Play video backwards. Create creative reverse video effects for social media and fun projects.
Example Output
Frame-by-frame reversal. Audio is reversed too (toggle to mute audio if reversed speech sounds disturbing).
jump-reversed.mp4 (4s — person landing back upward, audio also reversed)
What is Reverse Video?
Play a video backwards — for boomerang loops, magic-trick effects, "unbreaking" clips, or simply a fun reverse edit. Every frame is reversed in order, and audio is reversed too (with an option to mute it instead, since reversed speech can sound creepy).
Why use this tool?
- No telemetry, no tracking pixels, no third-party scripts
- Open-and-go: bookmark the page once and never look for an alternative
- Instant results — no waiting on a server or upload progress bar
- FFmpeg WASM means the same encoder that powers desktop tools, running in your browser
- First-load downloads the WASM core once (~30 MB), then subsequent edits are fast
How to use
- Upload your video file
- Click "Reverse Video"
- Preview the reversed video
- Download the result
Examples
Boomerang loop
Concatenate the original clip + reversed clip → a seamless ping-pong loop, perfect for Instagram Boomerang-style posts.
Unbreaking effect
A clip of someone breaking a vase, reversed, becomes "vase reassembling itself" — classic visual gag.
Splash physics
Reverse a splash to make liquid leap back into a glass — viral-content fodder.
Common use cases
- Boomerang / ping-pong loops for social media
- Magic-trick / "unbreaking" visual gags
- Reverse-motion sports analysis
- Creative video edits and transitions
- Reversing time-lapses (e.g. flower closing back up)
Troubleshooting
- Reversed clip is huge
- Reversal requires storing every frame in memory. Trim to a shorter segment (under 30s) before reversing, then merge with the original.
- Audio sounds disturbing
- Toggle "mute reversed audio" — reversed speech and laughter often sound unsettling. Add new audio in an editor after.
- Output stutters
- Variable-frame-rate (VFR) source. Pre-convert to constant frame rate (CFR) with the resize/re-encode tool first, then reverse.
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes — both video and audio are played backwards by default. Reversed speech sounds garbled, so for social-media reverse effects most people prefer to mute the audio first.
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