What we all love TikTok for is how flexible its algorithm is. One day your feed is full of cooking hacks, comedy sketches, or workout routines, and the next day a creator has deleted their account or made a video private. Or even worse: TikTok itself sees this content as harmful and wipes it out. The same goes for your bookmarks and likes; the personal library you’ve built up over months or years can vanish without warning.

If you rely on TikTok as a source of inspiration, research, or simply daily entertainment, losing that collection might feel frustrating. The solution is simple: back it up before it disappears.

Why You Should Save Your TikTok Likes and Bookmarks

At first glance, likes and bookmarks look safe. After all, they’re stored in your profile. But there are several reasons why downloading them is a smart move:

Videos disappear when creators delete them (duh). If a creator removes content or sets their profile to private, the video is instantly gone from your saved lists.
TikTok is unpredictable. Perhaps, the most unpredictable social media of all. Governments have discussed restricting or even banning the app in various regions. If that happens, your saved content could become inaccessible overnight.
Your taste changes. Many users treat bookmarks like a scrapbook with recipes to try, songs to revisit, tutorials worth learning. Keeping a local copy means you can return to them even years later.
Offline viewing. A saved video on your computer doesn’t depend on Wi-Fi, mobile data, or TikTok’s servers.

Imagine you’ve been saving language-learning clips to practice pronunciation. If those videos disappear, so does your self-curated course. Or maybe you’ve bookmarked workout routines to use at the gym: without internet access, those routines won’t be much help. Saving them locally solves these problems.

How People Usually Try to Save TikTok Videos & Why They Do It Wrong

The first instinct is often to download each video directly in the TikTok app. There’s a download button on many posts, though not all: some creators disable it. Even when it works, every file comes with a watermark, and downloading hundreds of clips one by one is tedious.

There are also random websites promising quick TikTok downloads. We can’t stop you from using them but you should know that these tend to be cluttered with ads, limited to one video at a time, and often unreliable. For anyone with more than a handful of liked or bookmarked posts, this isn’t a practical solution.

A Faster Way to Download TikTok Boormarks & Liked Videos: 4K Tokkit

That’s where 4K Tokkit, a desktop application for Windows, macOS, and Linux, comes in. Instead of saving clips one by one, it lets you download collections in bulk, including your entire list of liked videos or bookmarks.

4K Tokkit isn’t just for personal libraries. You can also use it to grab content by hashtag, by TikTok username, or by specific sound. For example:

A chef might download all videos under the hashtag #mealprep to build a cooking reference archive.
A musician could save every TikTok using a particular trending song.
A casual user might want to download all their bookmarks to keep a permanent copy of dance tutorials or funny skits.

Here’s how:

Launch 4K Tokkit. It's available for macOS, Windows and Linux.
Log in to your TikTok account in-app. At the menu bar, click Tools > Log In.
Click Download > My Favorite Posts/My Liked Posts at the menu bar. All videos and photos from your Favorites tab will start downloading to your computer.

Alternatively, you can just click on the Control Panel button at the bottom right of your screen and find Download My Favorites and Download My Likes.

Good to know: Future favorite posts will be automatically downloaded once you bookmark them on TikTok. Note that the application must be running to save new posts.

In a few minutes, you’ll have a local copy of your TikTok library. Whether it’s twenty videos or two thousand, the process is the same.

Good to Know

Can other people see my favorites on TikTok?

No, other people cannot see your favorites on TikTok because your favorites are private by default. TikTok doesn’t provide an option to make your favorites visible to others, so no one else can view the videos you have favorited on your profile.

Where do my favourites go on TikTok?

They’re saved in a dedicated section on your profile.

To find them:

Open the TikTok app.
Go to your profile by tapping the profile icon at the bottom right.
Tap the "Favorites" tab or the bookmark/ribbon icon. This section shows all the videos you have favorited or saved for later viewing.

You can also organize your favorites into folders called "Collections" to categorize and manage them more easily.

Can you see who saved your TikTok to their favorites?

There is no public notification sent to you when someone favorites your videos, and there is no feature for others to see your saved favorites list.

Can everyone see who liked my videos on TikTok?

No, other people can’t see who liked your videos, only you as the creator can access that. Your video shows a like count, but TikTok doesn’t display a public list of users who liked it. However, as the creator of a video you will be notified when someone likes your video.

Regarding your liked videos (videos you’ve liked on others’ posts), by default, these are private and only you can see them in the "Liked videos" section on your profile. You can change this setting in privacy options to make your liked videos visible to everyone, but most users keep them set to “Only me” for privacy.

The Bottom Line

TikTok is built for the moment, not for permanence. Likes and bookmarks feel reliable until they suddenly aren’t. Backing them up is the only way to make sure your curated collection stays intact.

With 4K Tokkit, the process takes minutes, not hours. Instead of worrying about whether a video will disappear, you can relax knowing it’s safely stored on your computer and in the cloud.

If you’ve been putting off saving your favorite TikTok content, now is the time to do it, before it’s too late.