GIF to Live Photo
Turn an animated GIF into a Live Photo in your browser. Your file stays on your device.
Length
Douyin and WeChat Moments only accept about 3 seconds; longer clips post as stills. The clip is taken around the cover frame.
Nothing is uploaded. Your files are processed in this browser and never leave your device.
How to turn a GIF into a Live Photo
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Choose a GIF
Choose an animated GIF from your device. It stays in your browser throughout conversion.
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Let it record
Keep this tab open while it records. A three-second GIF takes about three seconds to convert.
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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.
Why convert a GIF to a Live Photo
Play it in Photos
After importing both files together with the guide, open the item in Photos. Look for the LIVE badge and press and hold to play.
It runs on the device, not on a server
Conversion happens on your device. Your files stay in this browser tab and are never uploaded.
Any GIF you already have works
Loops, memes, screen recordings exported as GIF — if the browser can animate it, we can turn it into the movie half of a Live Photo.
Honest about the trade-off
Conversion takes about as long as the GIF plays. Transparent areas become a solid background.
Other Live Photo conversions
- BoomerangTurn 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.
- Video to Live PhotoTurn MP4 or MOV into a Live Photo with the cover you choose.
- Live Photo to videoPull the movie out of the pair as a normal video file you can send or edit.
- Live Photo to still imageGet a plain JPEG out of a Live Photo — the cover frame or any frame you pick.
- Live Photo to GIFTurn the movie half into a looping GIF that plays in any chat or forum.
GIF to Live Photo FAQ
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.
Because the only way a browser can produce H.264 is to record it, and recording happens in real time. Every other tool on this site is instant because nothing is re-encoded.
The ones that can record MP4 — Safari on iPhone, iPad and Mac from 14.5, and desktop browsers with a system H.264 encoder, which Chrome has on macOS and Windows. If yours cannot, the tool says so before you wait for anything.
No. H.264 has no alpha channel, so transparent areas become a solid background. GIF’s one-bit transparency cannot survive the conversion.
Very close for the shape of the motion. H.264 is more efficient than GIF, so it usually looks better rather than worse — but a GIF’s limited palette is baked into the pixels and cannot be recovered.
Ready to try it?
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