What the Vimeo Importer is
A free Mac app that moves your Vimeo library across using your own sign-in, on your own machine, so even private videos come with you.
Vimeo plans change, and a library built over years deserves a copy that answers to you. The HoldFast Vimeo Importer is a free Mac app that moves your Vimeo library into HoldFast without ever handling your Vimeo password. Everything that touches your account happens on your own machine, in your own session.
How your sign-in stays private
When you open the importer, a Vimeo window opens and you sign in there yourself, in a window kept to vimeo.com. HoldFast never sees your password. Your Vimeo cookies stay in an isolated space on your Mac and only ever talk to Vimeo. The app reads only the library your own session can see, which is the whole point of doing this on your machine.
The sign-in screen states the promise plainly: your videos, your session, your machine.
Why that matters for private videos
Nothing here reaches around Vimeo's permissions. The importer runs on your Mac and reads only what you can already see while you are signed in, so a private, unlisted or password-protected video comes across for the same reason it shows up in your own browser: it is yours, and you are the one signed in. A tool running on someone else's server would need access to your account to do this. The importer never asks for that, because it never acts as anyone but you. Your videos, your session, your machine.
What the app does, end to end
- You sign in to Vimeo yourself.
- The app scans your library and shows every video with its real size, grouped by folder.
- You choose which videos to move, where they land, and how they get there.
- You connect a HoldFast account, or sign in to one you already have.
- The import runs with live per-video progress, and you can leave it in the background.
Nothing is deleted from Vimeo. The importer only reads and copies, so your Vimeo library is untouched when the move is done.
Where to go next
- Ready to move everything? See Move your Vimeo library to HoldFast.
- Wondering what it costs? See How the importer picks your plan.
Questions
Does HoldFast ever see my Vimeo password?
No. You sign in inside a Vimeo window on your own Mac, and your Vimeo cookies stay on your machine. HoldFast only receives the videos you choose to move.
Can it bring across private or unlisted videos?
Yes. Because it reads your library through your own signed-in session, any video you can see on Vimeo can come across, including private, unlisted, and password-protected ones.
Does moving my library remove anything from Vimeo?
No. The importer only reads and copies. Your Vimeo library stays exactly as it was.
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