Turn video into Live Photo Online
Turn MP4 or MOV into a Live Photo. Choose your cover, keep the original video quality, and convert right in your browser. No upload needed.
- No upload — files stay on your device
- No app, no sign-up, no watermark
- No length limit on iOS — 3-minute clips imported in testing
Length
The whole video, no trimming. iOS sets no limit, but Douyin and WeChat Moments only take about 3 seconds — longer posts as a still.
Nothing is uploaded. Your files are processed in this browser and never leave your device.
How it works
Three steps, none of which involve an account.
- 1
Choose a file
It is read locally — the page never sends it anywhere.
- 2
Pick the cover frame
The frame Photos will show. We pull one from the video; you can drag to another.
- 3
Download and import
Download the ZIP and extract the JPG and MOV. Follow the Mac or Windows guide to import both together, then transfer the Live Photo to your iPhone.
Every Live Photo conversion, in one place
6 tools for moving between a Live Photo and everything else. Each one runs in your browser, and none of them hands your file to a server.
- Video to Live PhotoTurn MP4 or MOV into a Live Photo. Choose your cover, keep the original video quality, and convert right in your browser. No upload needed.Open tool
- GIF to Live PhotoTurn an animated GIF into a Live Photo in your browser. Your file stays on your device.Open tool
- Live Photo to videoPull the movie out of a Live Photo as a normal video file you can send, post or edit anywhere.Open tool
- Live Photo to still imageGet a plain JPEG out of a Live Photo — the cover frame, or any frame you pick.Open tool
- Live Photo to GIFTurn a Live Photo into a GIF that plays anywhere — chat, forums, anywhere that takes an image.Open tool
- Boomerang & reverse videoTurn a video or Live Photo into a forward-and-back loop, or play it in reverse. Choose a short moment and export a silent GIF or MP4 without uploading your files.Open tool
What people use it for
Bring a clip back as a photo
A short clip from a phone, a drone or a gimbal becomes a Live Photo, so it sits in the photo library as a photo that moves instead of as a video you never open again.
Re-pair a Live Photo that got split
Have the photo and video saved separately? Add both, download the result, and follow the guide to import them together into Photos.
Pull a still out of a Live Photo
Upload forms and websites often refuse a HEIC or a Live Photo outright. Getting a plain JPEG out of the pair is usually faster than arguing with the form.
Make a GIF for places that take images only
A Live Photo to GIF conversion gives you something a chat app, a forum or a bug tracker will actually render, with no player and no plugin required.
Why this one is different
It makes a real Live Photo
After importing both files together with the guide, open the item in Photos. Look for the LIVE badge and press and hold to play.
Nothing is uploaded
Conversion happens on your device. Your files stay in this browser tab and are never uploaded.
Your video is never re-encoded
Your video keeps its original picture and sound. It is not re-encoded during conversion.
What it can’t do
Better to know now than after you have shared the link.
It can’t add the Live Photo to Photos for you
Safari cannot add the still and movie to Photos as one Live Photo. On iPad, the system Save to Photos action creates two separate items; use the paired desktop import in the guide below.
Animated lock screens are not guaranteed
Some iOS versions require camera motion data before they animate a generated Live Photo on the lock screen. It still plays normally in Photos, but wallpaper setup may show “Motion not available”.
It can’t transcode
MP4 and MOV only. MKV, WebM and AV1 need a real encoder, which is exactly what we avoid shipping, so convert those to MP4 first.
Questions
Free visitors get 5 single conversions per day and one full batch trial in this browser, without an account. Membership unlocks unlimited conversions and batches, with no ads.
This tool writes a shared content identifier and a still-image-time track into the still and movie. A paired import can then add them to Photos as one genuine Live Photo with a LIVE badge.
No. You can build a Live Photo on any computer and send it to a phone afterwards. You only need an iPhone or an iPad to view it as a Live Photo.
Open Photos. A real Live Photo appears as one item with a LIVE badge in the corner. If you see two items — a photo and a video — the pairing did not take, and you should tell us.
They stay in your browser. Nothing is uploaded, nothing is stored, and closing the tab discards everything.
How Live Photo files work (technical details)
A Live Photo is not a file format. It is two ordinary files plus metadata that tells iOS they belong together.
Two files, one identifier
The still (a HEIC or a JPEG) has a pairing identifier in its Apple MakerNote. The movie carries the same identifier in its metadata, plus a small track marking which moment the photo is. iOS pairs the two on that shared identifier; without it they are just two unrelated files.
Why the conversion is instant
Because the video is not re-encoded. The conversion only writes the pairing identifier into the still and adds a small piece of metadata to the movie — the video itself is untouched, so a 2 MB clip finishes in about 11 milliseconds.
Why one sometimes fails to pair
The pairing lives in metadata, and some apps rebuild files in transit and drop that metadata. That is why a Live Photo sent through a messaging app often arrives as an ordinary photo. Send the two files together, as files rather than chat attachments.
Turn your first video into a Live Photo
It takes about a second, and nothing leaves your device.
Choose a video