LiftMonkey

The problem

Designers and content marketers gathering visual references screenshot dozens of posts from Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter/X per project and end up with a JPG dump in Downloads/ that nobody can find a week later. Photographers building mood boards do the same dance — right-click, "save image as," rename, drag into a folder, try to remember which client it belonged to. Videos are worse: most platforms don't expose a download at all, so the workflow degenerates into screen recording or sketchy browser extensions of unknown provenance.

LiftMonkey exists to collapse that into one step: paste the post URL, get the media file. No screenshots, no browser-extension permissions creeping across every tab you have open, no separate folder of half-named JPGs.

How LiftMonkey works

The flow is three steps and intentionally nothing more.

1. Paste a link. A post URL from Facebook, Instagram, Twitter/X, or one of the other supported platforms. The list on liftmonkey.app is the source of truth — we add platforms as we test them, and we don't ship support we haven't verified end-to-end.

2. LiftMonkey extracts the photos and videos behind the post. The fetch happens server-side and the media is transient — nothing is permanently stored on Llama Monkey servers. The URL goes in, the files come out, the intermediate copy is dropped.

3. Choose download or send to cloud. Default is a direct browser download. If your account is linked to SnapMonkey, you can route the media to your connected OneDrive, Google Drive, or Dropbox instead — same destinations SnapMonkey already writes Canon camera transfers to, so the references and the shoot deliverables land in the same place.

What it's for, who it helps

LiftMonkey is built for people who collect reference media as part of their job, not people who want to pirate a movie. The shape of the use case we keep hearing:

Designers and content marketers assembling mood boards, competitive landscape decks, or client review materials. The asset is the reference, not the final deliverable.

Photographers pulling lighting and composition references for an upcoming shoot, or saving inspiration posts to revisit later without losing them to the algorithm.

Social-media managers archiving their own brand's posts for compliance or recap reporting — public posts that the platform's native export tools don't surface cleanly.

If you're "just trying to download a TikTok of a cat," yt-dlp and a half-dozen browser extensions already cover that ground. LiftMonkey's pitch is the focused-tool-with-cloud-routing path, not breadth.

Why the SnapMonkey integration matters

SnapMonkey already does one thing for a specific user: it takes media off a Canon camera and lands it in your cloud storage automatically. LiftMonkey plugs into the same connected-cloud rail. If your SnapMonkey account is linked to Google Drive, LiftMonkey can drop its extracted media into the same Drive — and into the same folder structure if you point it there.

For a photographer running both, this means camera shots and reference material end up in one organized cloud tree instead of two. You don't need SnapMonkey to use LiftMonkey; you do get cloud routing for free when both are connected through your LMID account.

What you get

• Paste a post URL, get the photos and videos behind it — no screenshots, no browser extension
• Supports Facebook, Instagram, Twitter/X, and a growing list of platforms (the live list lives at liftmonkey.app)
• Direct browser download, or route media to your cloud storage via SnapMonkey integration
• Media is transient — files pass through, they're not stored on Llama Monkey servers
• One LMID account ties LiftMonkey, SnapMonkey, and the rest of the Llama Monkey product family together

Join the waitlist

LiftMonkey is in private beta. We'll email you when access opens. The fastest path today is the contact form — mention "LiftMonkey waitlist" and we'll add you.