boomerang.video

Boomerang mode on a phone only works if you remembered to switch it on before filming. Often you didn't, and the good moment is sitting in your camera roll as an ordinary clip.

boomerang.video works the other way round. You open any clip, or record a few seconds with your camera, and drag along a strip to pick the moment. The preview starts bouncing straight away. The team behind it says boomerangs usually have to be shot inside Instagram or another camera app, so an existing clip from the camera roll can't easily become one. That explains the focus on footage you've already filmed.

The bouncing part can be between 0.4 and 6 seconds of your clip. The advice on the site is to stay short, about one to two seconds of action. The moment is decoded once into memory, which is why the backwards half plays as smoothly as the forwards half.

There are five styles to start from. Classic, Slow-mo and Echo are joined by Rewind and Stutter. Speed runs from 0.25x to 4x. Shape crops to 9:16 for Stories, Reels and TikTok. You can also go square, 4:5 or 16:9, or keep the original frame, and you drag the preview to choose what stays in.

Two other modes sit under Make. Reverse plays up to a minute of a clip backwards once, with the sound reversed, kept forwards or off. Slow motion plays up to 30 seconds at 0.75x, 0.5x or 0.25x. Neither of those loops.

You save an MP4, a GIF or a WebP. The GIF suits chats and comments, where video often doesn't autoplay. Sound is off by default, and when you switch it on it plays backwards on the return. iPhone HEVC clips often can't be decoded outside Safari, so the site converts them on your device first, which takes a little longer.

There's no sign-up, no paid tier and no watermark or end card on the export. According to the privacy page, updated November 6, 2026, the clip is handled by the browser on your phone or computer from start to finish and never uploaded.

One detail matters in practice. The editor keeps nothing from one visit to the next, no clips, finished files or settings, so download your boomerang before closing the tab. The site counts visits with analytics you can switch off in Cookie settings, and by its own account it's funded independently. No person or company is named.

If there's a clip in your camera roll that deserves to bounce, this is a quick, free way to make it happen.