Can You Download Skool Videos on iPhone or Mobile? The Honest Answer
Short answer: no, not directly. Skool Video Downloader — and every other browser-extension-based Skool downloader — only works on desktop Chrome, Edge, Brave, or Opera. There's no iPhone or Android version, and there isn't going to be one that works the same way, for reasons that are worth actually understanding rather than just accepting as a limitation.
Why this isn't a "we haven't built it yet" problem
This comes down to a restriction Apple enforces at the operating system level, not a gap in development priorities.
On iOS, Safari is the only browser engine allowed. Every browser on the App Store — Chrome, Firefox, Edge, whatever you download — is required to run on Apple's WebKit engine under the hood, not its own. "Chrome for iOS" is a WebKit browser wearing Chrome's interface, not the same Chrome that runs the extension you'd install on a Mac or PC.
Safari's extension model isn't the same as desktop Chrome's. Desktop Chrome extensions (including Skool Video Downloader) use Chrome's Manifest V3 platform — APIs for intercepting network requests, managing downloads, running background scripts, and more. Safari on iOS supports a much narrower category called Safari Web Extensions, mostly built for content blocking and simple page modifications. There's no equivalent to the download-management and network-interception APIs the extension actually depends on.
This applies to every Chromium-based browser on iPhone, not just Safari. Because Apple mandates WebKit for all iOS browsers, installing Chrome, Brave, or Edge from the iOS App Store doesn't get you real Chrome extension support either — they're all constrained the same way Safari is.
Android is a different story technically (Chrome for Android does exist as real Chrome), but mobile Chrome on Android still doesn't support installing desktop-style extensions at all — that's an Android-Chrome product decision, not an Apple-specific one, and it's been true for years across the whole mobile extension landscape.
What to actually do
Download on desktop, then transfer. This is the practical path almost everyone ends up using:
- Download the lesson on your Mac or PC with the extension as normal.
- Transfer the MP4 to your phone — AirDrop (Mac to iPhone), a cloud drive folder (Google Drive, Dropbox, iCloud Drive), or a cable sync.
- Open it in your phone's Photos or Files app for fully offline playback — no signal, no data usage, no buffering.
This takes a couple of extra minutes per file but gives you a real offline copy on your phone afterward, which a mobile extension couldn't have given you anyway (mobile Safari doesn't have a "downloads folder" the way desktop does).
Use Skool's own app for online (not offline) mobile viewing. If you just want to watch a lesson on your phone while you have signal, Skool's official app handles that natively — no extension needed at all for that use case. The desktop-download-then-transfer path is specifically for people who want a true offline file on their device.