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Reverse a video play the whole thing backwards

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By ShinobiTools Team · Last updated: August 2026

Run a clip backwards — the classic trick for a jump that un-jumps or a drink that pours itself back into the glass. Picture and sound are both reversed. Free, no account.

Keep it short

Reversing has to hold the whole video in memory before it can play it back to front, so it's the heaviest thing on this page. A clip of a few seconds is instant; several minutes will take a while. If you only need one moment reversed, trim it first and then reverse the piece.

The sound goes backwards too

Some tools reverse the picture and leave the audio running forwards, which looks wrong immediately. Both are reversed here. Want the picture backwards with the original sound, run it through remove the audio afterwards and add your own.

About your file

Your video is uploaded to our own machine, reversed there, and deleted immediately afterwards. Limit: 400 MB.

What people actually reverse

The clips that get reversed here tend to be the same handful of tricks: a fall or a stumble that plays back as an impossible recovery, water or sand that appears to leap back into a container, a plant or a build filmed forwards and watched growing in reverse, or a simple walk that becomes a moonwalk. None of that needs special filming — the same ordinary clip works whether you shot it for this or not.

Reverse is not the same tool as flip, which mirrors the picture left-to-right or top-to-bottom without touching time, or speed up or slow down, which changes how fast the same forward sequence plays. This one runs the timeline itself backwards, frame by frame, sound included.

Why the whole video has to be read first

Playing something forwards, a browser or a player only ever needs the next frame. Reversing needs the opposite: the very last frame has to be ready before anything can be shown, which means every frame and every audio sample has to be decoded and held before the reversed file can be written at all. That's a fundamentally different job from trimming or speeding a clip up, both of which can stream through the file without ever holding the whole thing at once — and it's the reason this is one of the heavier tools on this site, and why a long or high-resolution clip takes noticeably longer than the others.

Common questions

How do I play a video backwards?

Drop it in and download the result. There's nothing to set.

Is the sound reversed as well?

Yes, both picture and sound.

Why is it slower than the other tools?

The whole video has to be read before the last frame can come first. Trim it down if you only need part of it.

Does it lose quality?

It's re-encoded at a high bitrate; the difference isn't visible in normal viewing.

Is it really free?

Yes. No account, no watermark, no daily limit.

What formats can I use?

MP4, MOV, WebM, MKV and AVI; you get an MP4 back.