diff --git a/frontend/src/components/DownloadCenter.confirm.dom.test.tsx b/frontend/src/components/DownloadCenter.confirm.dom.test.tsx
index f4adee4c..46deb263 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/DownloadCenter.confirm.dom.test.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/components/DownloadCenter.confirm.dom.test.tsx
@@ -124,4 +124,21 @@ describe("DownloadCenter confirm dialogs", () => {
       ["downloads.confirm.deleteTitle", "downloads.actions.delete"],
     ]);
   });
+
+  it("cancelling an upload says the uploaded file goes with it", async () => {
+    // Nothing to fetch again: the cancel deletes the original from the server.
+    mocks.jobs = [{ ...job(3, "queued"), job_kind: "upload" }];
+    render(
+      <QueryClientProvider client={new QueryClient()}>
+        <DownloadCenter />
+      </QueryClientProvider>,
+    );
+    await pick("Clip 3", "downloads.actions.cancel");
+    await waitFor(() => expect(mocks.confirm).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1));
+    const [opts] = mocks.confirm.mock.calls[0]!;
+    expect([opts.title, opts.confirmLabel]).toEqual([
+      "downloads.confirm.cancelUploadTitle",
+      "downloads.confirm.cancelUploadAction",
+    ]);
+  });
 });
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/NotificationsPanel.menu.dom.test.tsx b/frontend/src/components/NotificationsPanel.menu.dom.test.tsx
index d450ec12..5cb4ef94 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/NotificationsPanel.menu.dom.test.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/components/NotificationsPanel.menu.dom.test.tsx
@@ -364,3 +364,19 @@ describe("a download-lifecycle notice", () => {
     expect(screen.queryByText("download")).toBeNull();
   });
 });
+
+describe("NotificationsPanel · a finished job's title", () => {
+  it("names what finished: a download, a clip, an upload", () => {
+    h.server = [
+      server(1),
+      server(2, { data: { title: "Ready 2", kind: "edit" } }),
+      server(3, { data: { title: "Ready 3", kind: "upload" } }),
+    ];
+    h.client = [];
+    mount();
+    const titleOf = (text: string) => rowOf(text).textContent ?? "";
+    expect(titleOf("Ready 1")).toContain("inbox.downloadDone.title");
+    expect(titleOf("Ready 2")).toContain("inbox.editDone.title");
+    expect(titleOf("Ready 3")).toContain("inbox.uploadDone.title");
+  });
+});
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/NotificationsPanel.tsx b/frontend/src/components/NotificationsPanel.tsx
index 9ea0cab7..134a5cfb 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/NotificationsPanel.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/components/NotificationsPanel.tsx
@@ -446,6 +446,11 @@ const DOWNLOAD_LIFECYCLE: Record<string, string | undefined> = {
   download_expired: "downloadExpired",
   download_evicted: "downloadEvicted",
 };
+// A `download_done` notice's title by the producer's `kind`; any other kind reads as a download.
+const DONE_TITLE: Record<string, string | undefined> = {
+  edit: "inbox.editDone.title",
+  upload: "inbox.uploadDone.title",
+};
 
 function serverKind(n: AppNotification): "scheduler" | "download" | null {
   if (n.type === "scheduler" && typeof n.data?.job_id === "string") return "scheduler";
@@ -552,10 +557,11 @@ function NotificationRow({
     title = t(`inbox.${lifecycle}.title`, { from: d.from ?? "" });
     body = d.title || null;
   } else if (isDownloadDone) {
-    // "Download ready" / "Edit ready" per the producer's kind, with the video's title as the body
-    // (shipped in data.title). Same notification type; the copy differs so an edit isn't mislabelled.
+    // "Download ready" / "Edit ready" / "Upload ready" per the producer's kind, with the video's title
+    // as the body (shipped in data.title). Same notification type; the copy differs so an edit or an
+    // upload isn't called a download.
     const d = n.data as { title?: string | null; kind?: string };
-    title = t(d.kind === "edit" ? "inbox.editDone.title" : "inbox.downloadDone.title");
+    title = t(DONE_TITLE[d.kind ?? ""] ?? "inbox.downloadDone.title");
     body = d.title || n.body;
   }
   return (
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/downloadModals.tsx b/frontend/src/components/downloadModals.tsx
index 9de5d747..c7bb47ab 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/downloadModals.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/components/downloadModals.tsx
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ import Modal, { ModalFooter } from "./ui/Modal";
 import { api, type DownloadJob } from "../lib/api";
 import { Button } from "./ui/Button";
 import { IconBtn } from "./downloadRow";
-import { failCopyKeys } from "../lib/downloadFailure";
+import { failCopyKeys, failTitleKey } from "../lib/downloadFailure";
 import { Input } from "./ui/Input";
 
 // Per-item user modals split out of DownloadCenter (self-contained, prop-driven): rename/metadata
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ export function MetaEditModal({ job, onClose }: { job: DownloadJob; onClose: ()
 // retry control regardless. `unknown` is deliberately NOT here: an unclassified failure is most often an
 // auth wall we couldn't parse (a login-walled Facebook post reads as a bare "no format"), so a
 // prominent Retry would mislead; force-retrying from the row stays available for genuine transients.
-const RETRYABLE_ERRORS = ["postprocess", "network"];
+const RETRYABLE_ERRORS = ["postprocess", "network", "convert_failed"];
 
 // A readable "why did this fail" window for a failed job: a category headline + plain explanation,
 // the raw yt-dlp/ffmpeg text behind a disclosure, and a Retry when the failure may be transient.
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ export function ErrorModal({
   const [showRaw, setShowRaw] = useState(false);
   const retryable = RETRYABLE_ERRORS.includes(code);
   return (
-    <Modal initialFocus="close" title={t("downloads.errors.fail.title")} onClose={onClose}>
+    <Modal initialFocus="close" title={t(failTitleKey(job))} onClose={onClose}>
       <div className="space-y-3">
         <div className="font-medium">{t(failCopyKeys(job, "short"))}</div>
         <p className="text-sm text-muted">{t(failCopyKeys(job, "body"))}</p>
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/downloadRow.dom.test.tsx b/frontend/src/components/downloadRow.dom.test.tsx
index 7ef2ba2e..39df6c0c 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/downloadRow.dom.test.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/components/downloadRow.dom.test.tsx
@@ -292,3 +292,27 @@ describe("DownloadRow · no picture", () => {
     expect(container.querySelector("svg.lucide-film")).not.toBeNull();
   });
 });
+
+// The phone-safe conversion reports ffmpeg's real progress, so it gets the % bar a download has;
+// a yt-dlp post-step reports none and keeps the pulse.
+describe("DownloadRow · a running conversion", () => {
+  const running = (phase: string): DownloadJob => ({
+    ...baseJob,
+    status: "running",
+    progress: 40,
+    phase,
+  });
+
+  it("shows its phase and its %", () => {
+    const { container } = render(<DownloadRow job={running("converting")} />);
+    expect(screen.getByText("downloads.phase.converting")).toBeTruthy();
+    expect(screen.getByText("40%")).toBeTruthy();
+    expect(container.querySelector(".animate-pulse")).toBeNull();
+  });
+
+  it("a post-step with no % keeps the pulse", () => {
+    const { container } = render(<DownloadRow job={running("merging")} />);
+    expect(screen.queryByText("40%")).toBeNull();
+    expect(container.querySelector(".animate-pulse")).not.toBeNull();
+  });
+});
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/downloadRow.tsx b/frontend/src/components/downloadRow.tsx
index 9809a525..926e9c3d 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/downloadRow.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/components/downloadRow.tsx
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ import {
   relativeTime,
 } from "../lib/format";
 import { navItemAttrs } from "../lib/listNav";
-import { failCopyKeys } from "../lib/downloadFailure";
+import { failCopyKeys, failTitleKey } from "../lib/downloadFailure";
 import { displayUrl, hasOwnTitle, jobTitle } from "./downloadTitle";
 import { IconButton } from "./ui/IconButton";
 import { Pressable } from "./ui/Pressable";
@@ -34,12 +34,14 @@ const STATUS_CLS: Record<string, string> = {
 };
 
 // Byte-progress phases (show a % bar) vs ffmpeg post-steps (no %, indeterminate pulse).
-// "editing" (the phase-2 editor) reports a real % from ffmpeg's out_time, so it gets a bar.
-const DOWNLOAD_PHASES = ["video", "audio", "editing"];
+// "editing" (the phase-2 editor) and "converting" (the phone-safe conversion of a download or an
+// upload) report a real % from ffmpeg's out_time, so they get a bar.
+const DOWNLOAD_PHASES = ["video", "audio", "editing", "converting"];
 const PHASE_KEYS = [
   "video",
   "audio",
   "editing",
+  "converting",
   "merging",
   "audio_extract",
   "thumbnail",
@@ -313,7 +315,7 @@ export function DownloadRow({
               <Pressable
                 onClick={() => onShowError?.(job)}
                 className="text-danger inline-block leading-6 min-h-6 touch-target pointer-coarse:leading-(--touch-target)"
-                title={t("downloads.errors.fail.title")}
+                title={t(failTitleKey(job))}
               >
                 · {t(failCopyKeys(job, "short"))}{" "}
                 <span className="text-muted underline">
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/useDownloadActions.tsx b/frontend/src/components/useDownloadActions.tsx
index aa549678..1731c101 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/useDownloadActions.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/components/useDownloadActions.tsx
@@ -35,6 +35,18 @@ import { menuGroups } from "./ui/menuGroups";
 export type DownloadTab = "queue" | "done" | "shared";
 export type JobOp = "pause" | "resume" | "cancel" | "delete" | "redownload";
 
+// The Cancel confirmation of a queued job; an upload's names what it deletes.
+const CANCEL_DOWNLOAD = {
+  title: "downloads.confirm.cancelTitle",
+  body: "downloads.confirm.cancelBody",
+  action: "downloads.confirm.cancelAction",
+};
+const CANCEL_UPLOAD = {
+  title: "downloads.confirm.cancelUploadTitle",
+  body: "downloads.confirm.cancelUploadBody",
+  action: "downloads.confirm.cancelUploadAction",
+};
+
 export function useDownloadActions({
   onPlay,
   onEdit,
@@ -147,13 +159,14 @@ export function useDownloadActions({
           label: t("downloads.actions.cancel"),
           icon: icon(Ban),
           danger: true,
-          onSelect: () =>
-            void confirmThen(
-              t("downloads.confirm.cancelTitle"),
-              t("downloads.confirm.cancelBody"),
-              t("downloads.confirm.cancelAction"),
-              () => act.mutate({ id: job.id, op: "cancel" }),
-            ),
+          // Cancelling an upload deletes the file it uploaded (there is nothing to fetch again), so
+          // its confirmation says so — "stop the download" would read as safe to undo.
+          onSelect: () => {
+            const copy = job.job_kind === "upload" ? CANCEL_UPLOAD : CANCEL_DOWNLOAD;
+            void confirmThen(t(copy.title), t(copy.body), t(copy.action), () =>
+              act.mutate({ id: job.id, op: "cancel" }),
+            );
+          },
         },
       ],
     );
diff --git a/frontend/src/i18n/locales/en/downloads.json b/frontend/src/i18n/locales/en/downloads.json
index 95684f65..3130bb73 100644
--- a/frontend/src/i18n/locales/en/downloads.json
+++ b/frontend/src/i18n/locales/en/downloads.json
@@ -63,7 +63,8 @@
     "sponsorblock": "Removing sponsors",
     "metadata": "Writing metadata",
     "processing": "Processing",
-    "editing": "Editing"
+    "editing": "Editing",
+    "converting": "Converting for phones"
   },
   "actions": {
     "pause": "Pause",
@@ -151,6 +152,9 @@
     "cancelTitle": "Cancel download?",
     "cancelBody": "This stops the download and removes it from your queue.",
     "cancelAction": "Stop download",
+    "cancelUploadTitle": "Delete upload?",
+    "cancelUploadBody": "The file you uploaded is removed from the server along with it.",
+    "cancelUploadAction": "Delete upload",
     "deleteTitle": "Delete download?",
     "deleteBody": "This deletes it from your downloads. The file may stay cached for other users until it expires.",
     "removeSharedTitle": "Remove from your list?",
@@ -226,6 +230,7 @@
     },
     "fail": {
       "title": "Couldn't download",
+      "titleUpload": "The upload isn't ready",
       "detailsLink": "details",
       "detailsToggle": "Technical details",
       "cat": {
@@ -257,6 +262,14 @@
           "short": "Couldn't process the video",
           "body": "The video downloaded but a processing step (merge or convert) failed. A retry often fixes this."
         },
+        "convert_failed": {
+          "short": "Couldn't convert the upload",
+          "body": "Your file couldn't be converted into the format every phone plays. It may be damaged, or in a format the server can't read. The technical details below may help."
+        },
+        "upload_missing": {
+          "short": "Uploaded file missing",
+          "body": "The file you uploaded is no longer on the server. Upload it again."
+        },
         "source_missing": {
           "short": "Source unavailable",
           "body": "The original download this clip is based on is no longer available."
diff --git a/frontend/src/i18n/locales/en/inbox.json b/frontend/src/i18n/locales/en/inbox.json
index c4eb9bf9..c615c6ba 100644
--- a/frontend/src/i18n/locales/en/inbox.json
+++ b/frontend/src/i18n/locales/en/inbox.json
@@ -22,6 +22,9 @@
   "editDone": {
     "title": "Edit ready"
   },
+  "uploadDone": {
+    "title": "Upload ready to share"
+  },
   "maintenance": {
     "title": "Videos removed",
     "body_one": "{{count}} saved or playlisted video was removed because it's no longer available on YouTube.",
diff --git a/frontend/src/i18n/locales/hu/downloads.json b/frontend/src/i18n/locales/hu/downloads.json
index 8371a869..7dd76372 100644
--- a/frontend/src/i18n/locales/hu/downloads.json
+++ b/frontend/src/i18n/locales/hu/downloads.json
@@ -63,7 +63,8 @@
     "sponsorblock": "Szponzorok eltávolítása",
     "metadata": "Metaadat írása",
     "processing": "Feldolgozás",
-    "editing": "Szerkesztés"
+    "editing": "Szerkesztés",
+    "converting": "Átalakítás telefonra"
   },
   "actions": {
     "pause": "Szünet",
@@ -151,6 +152,9 @@
     "cancelTitle": "Megszakítod a letöltést?",
     "cancelBody": "Ez leállítja a letöltést és eltávolítja a sorból.",
     "cancelAction": "Letöltés leállítása",
+    "cancelUploadTitle": "Törlöd a feltöltést?",
+    "cancelUploadBody": "A feltöltött fájl is törlődik a szerverről.",
+    "cancelUploadAction": "Feltöltés törlése",
     "deleteTitle": "Törlöd a letöltést?",
     "deleteBody": "Ez törli a letöltéseid közül. A fájl a lejáratáig még a gyorsítótárban maradhat mások számára.",
     "removeSharedTitle": "Eltávolítod a listádból?",
@@ -226,6 +230,7 @@
     },
     "fail": {
       "title": "Nem sikerült letölteni",
+      "titleUpload": "A feltöltés nem készült el",
       "detailsLink": "részletek",
       "detailsToggle": "Technikai részletek",
       "cat": {
@@ -257,6 +262,14 @@
           "short": "Nem sikerült feldolgozni a videót",
           "body": "A videó letöltődött, de egy feldolgozási lépés (összefűzés vagy konvertálás) meghiúsult. Újrapróbálásra gyakran megjavul."
         },
+        "convert_failed": {
+          "short": "Nem sikerült átalakítani",
+          "body": "A fájlt nem sikerült olyan formátumra alakítani, amit minden telefon lejátszik. Lehet, hogy sérült, vagy a szerver nem ismeri a formátumát. Az alábbi technikai részletek segíthetnek."
+        },
+        "upload_missing": {
+          "short": "Hiányzik a feltöltött fájl",
+          "body": "A feltöltött fájl már nincs a szerveren. Töltsd fel újra."
+        },
         "source_missing": {
           "short": "A forrás nem elérhető",
           "body": "Az eredeti letöltés, amelyből ez a vágás készült, már nem érhető el."
diff --git a/frontend/src/i18n/locales/hu/inbox.json b/frontend/src/i18n/locales/hu/inbox.json
index 8f16fdba..204501d7 100644
--- a/frontend/src/i18n/locales/hu/inbox.json
+++ b/frontend/src/i18n/locales/hu/inbox.json
@@ -22,6 +22,9 @@
   "editDone": {
     "title": "Vágás kész"
   },
+  "uploadDone": {
+    "title": "A feltöltés megosztható"
+  },
   "maintenance": {
     "title": "Videók eltávolítva",
     "body_one": "{{count}} mentett vagy lejátszási listás videó eltávolítva, mert már nem elérhető a YouTube-on.",
diff --git a/frontend/src/lib/api/downloads.ts b/frontend/src/lib/api/downloads.ts
index fcac578d..231b66a8 100644
--- a/frontend/src/lib/api/downloads.ts
+++ b/frontend/src/lib/api/downloads.ts
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ export interface DownloadJob {
   display_uploader: string | null; // user override of the channel name
   display_uploader_url: string | null; // user override of the channel link
   extra_links: string[]; // extra reference URLs (beyond source_url)
-  job_kind?: DownloadJobKind; // "download" (default) | "edit" (a per-user trim/crop derivative)
+  job_kind?: DownloadJobKind; // see DownloadJobKind; absent reads as "download"
   source_job_id?: number | null; // parent download an edit was cut from
   edit_spec?: EditSpec | null;
   can_download: boolean;
diff --git a/frontend/src/lib/downloadFailure.test.ts b/frontend/src/lib/downloadFailure.test.ts
index d4e0dcb9..579c333c 100644
--- a/frontend/src/lib/downloadFailure.test.ts
+++ b/frontend/src/lib/downloadFailure.test.ts
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 // must still say the category, not print a key.
 import { describe, expect, it } from "vitest";
 import i18n from "../i18n";
-import { failCopyKeys } from "./downloadFailure";
+import { failCopyKeys, failTitleKey } from "./downloadFailure";
 
 describe("failCopyKeys", () => {
   it("puts a catalog entry before its category, and is the category alone without one", () => {
@@ -47,3 +47,22 @@ describe("failCopyKeys", () => {
     );
   });
 });
+
+describe("failTitleKey", () => {
+  it("titles an upload's failure as a conversion, anything else as a download", async () => {
+    await i18n.changeLanguage("en");
+    // the locale has the copy (a missing key would come back as the key itself)
+    expect(i18n.t(failTitleKey({ job_kind: "upload" }))).not.toMatch(/^downloads\./);
+    expect(failTitleKey({ job_kind: "upload" })).toBe("downloads.errors.fail.titleUpload");
+    expect(failTitleKey({ job_kind: "edit" })).toBe("downloads.errors.fail.title");
+    expect(failTitleKey({})).toBe("downloads.errors.fail.title");
+  });
+
+  it("an upload's own failures read as an upload's", async () => {
+    await i18n.changeLanguage("en");
+    for (const code of ["convert_failed", "upload_missing"]) {
+      const short = i18n.t(failCopyKeys({ error_code: code, error_detail: null }, "short"));
+      expect(short).not.toBe(i18n.t("downloads.errors.fail.cat.unknown.short"));
+    }
+  });
+});
diff --git a/frontend/src/lib/downloadFailure.ts b/frontend/src/lib/downloadFailure.ts
index 2b55c329..612f4918 100644
--- a/frontend/src/lib/downloadFailure.ts
+++ b/frontend/src/lib/downloadFailure.ts
@@ -18,3 +18,10 @@ export function failCopyKeys(
     ...(code === "unknown" ? [] : [category("unknown")]),
   ];
 }
+
+/** The title over a failed job's explanation: an upload's failure is a conversion, not a download. */
+export function failTitleKey(job: Pick<DownloadJob, "job_kind">): string {
+  return job.job_kind === "upload"
+    ? "downloads.errors.fail.titleUpload"
+    : "downloads.errors.fail.title";
+}