Rotate a Video, Free
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What this video rotator does

This tool changes which way up your video plays, in your browser.

You get two controls:

- Turn — 90° right, 90° left or 180°. - Flip — mirror left to right (the selfie fix) or flip top to bottom.

They combine, so you can turn a clip and mirror it in one go.

Quarter turns without a flip are handled the same way a phone camera records a portrait video: the frames stay as they are and the file carries an orientation setting telling players to turn them. Nothing is re-encoded, so the picture keeps its exact quality and a long file takes seconds.

Flips have no such setting that players agree on, so a flip re-encodes the picture with your browser’s video encoder. The sound is kept either way.

The result tells you what changed, the size before and after, and whether the picture is the original or re-encoded.

How to rotate a video that is sideways or upside down

1. Choose your video. Phone videos (MP4 or MOV) and WebM screen recordings both work. 2. Work out the turn. If the top of the picture is on the left, choose 90° right. If it is on the right, choose 90° left. If it is upside down, choose 180°. 3. Leave Flip on No flip unless the picture is mirrored. Mirrored text is the giveaway. 4. Press Rotate video. A quarter turn is ready in seconds. 5. Play the result and check that people and text are upright. 6. Download it. MP4 and MOV videos are saved as MP4.

If you picked the wrong way, simply run the original again with the other direction. Because quarter turns never re-encode, trying again costs nothing in quality, and your original file is never changed.

Lossless quarter turns, and when the picture is re-encoded

Every phone records video in the sensor’s own landscape shape and writes a small orientation setting into the file when you hold it upright. Browsers, iPhone and Android galleries, desktop players, video editors and the major social apps read it and show the video the right way up.

This tool uses the same mechanism. A 90°, 180° or 270° turn updates that setting and copies the frames, so there is no generation loss and no waiting.

The picture is re-encoded in three cases, and the result says Re-encoded each time:

- A flip. Players do not agree on a mirror setting, so the mirrored frames are drawn and encoded. - Bake into the picture. For the rare old player or upload form that ignores the orientation setting. - WebM files. WebM has no orientation setting, so the turned frames are encoded, usually as an MP4.

Re-encoding uses a bitrate close to the original’s, so the difference is hard to see, but it is not a perfect copy.

Mirroring a selfie or webcam video

Front cameras and webcams often save video the way the preview looked: mirrored. That feels natural while recording, but on playback any text in the shot reads backwards, a logo on a shirt is reversed, and a presenter pointing "left" points right.

Choose Mirror left to right to fix it. The tool draws every frame reversed and encodes it again with your browser’s encoder, keeping the original resolution and a bitrate close to the source. The sound is copied unchanged.

Flip top to bottom is the less common case: footage from a camera mounted upside down under a shelf, a drone gimbal or a car dashboard. On its own it mirrors the picture vertically; combined with a 180° turn it becomes a pure mirror, which is sometimes what an upside-down mount needs.

Because flips re-encode, keep your original file until you have checked the result.

Rotating Video Locally: Browser Support

Your video never leaves your device. It is read by your browser, rotated on the page and handed back as a download. Nothing is uploaded or saved on our servers.

What that means in practice:

- Quarter turns work in any current browser, because nothing is encoded. - Flips need a browser that can encode video: Chrome, Edge or Firefox from the last couple of years, or Safari 16.4 or newer on a Mac, iPhone or iPad. If yours cannot, the tool says so and suggests one that can. - File size limits follow your device’s memory, because the new file is built in memory: up to 15 minutes or 1 GB per run on a phone, up to 60 minutes or 4 GB on a computer. - HEVC video from iPhones is copied as it is for quarter turns. Flipping it needs a browser that can decode HEVC, which Safari can.

A free sign-in, needed after your first few downloads, never sends your video anywhere.

Free rotator vs the paid AI video enhancer

The free Rotate Video tool fixes direction: quarter turns without any quality loss, and mirror or top-to-bottom flips when you need them. Rotating is unlimited. Your first few downloads need no account, and after that a free sign-in keeps them going.

What it cannot do is improve the picture. A dim, noisy or low-resolution phone clip is still dim, noisy and low resolution after it has been turned the right way up.

The paid Imagera AI video enhancer works on the picture itself. It sharpens soft footage, reduces noise and upscales low-resolution clips in the cloud, and exports a finished video. It uses credits.

They fit together naturally. Straighten the clip here in seconds, then send it to the enhancer when it needs to hold up on a large screen, a client presentation or a high-resolution feed.