LIVP to MP4 Converter

When your iPhone takes a Live Photo, it doesn't just capture one image — it records a short video too. For about 1.5 seconds before and after the shutter, the camera keeps rolling, and that footage is stored as a MOV clip (H.264 or HEVC video, usually with audio). That MOV is what plays when you press and hold the photo. A .livp file is simply a ZIP package holding two things: the still HEIC frame and that MOV clip.

Converting LIVP to MP4 means ignoring the still image and pulling out only the MOV, then wrapping or re-encoding it as an MP4 — the most universally playable video format on earth. The result is a normal short video file you can drop into a video editor, post to Instagram Reels or TikTok, send in a chat, or play on literally any device. The motion, and any captured sound, comes along with it.

The clip inside a Live Photo is a MOV — Apple's QuickTime container. MOV plays fine on Apple devices, but it can stumble elsewhere: some Android players, older Windows media apps, web upload forms, and certain editing tools either refuse it or play it without sound. MP4 is the format every platform expects. Switching the container to MP4 (and, when needed, transcoding the video stream to standard H.264) removes those compatibility headaches in one move.

There's a practical upload angle too. Social platforms and messaging apps are tuned for MP4. Uploading a MOV pulled straight out of a LIVP sometimes triggers extra server-side conversion, quality loss, or outright rejection. Handing them a clean MP4 means your clip uploads, plays, and looks the way you intended — no surprise re-encoding on the other end.

Yes. The MOV embedded in a Live Photo is the real captured footage — commonly 1080p at around 30fps on most iPhones, higher on newer Pro models — and we preserve that resolution and frame rate when producing the MP4. You are not getting a downscaled preview; you're getting the full clip that was sitting inside the package the whole time, audio included if the Live Photo recorded any.

Where possible the original video stream is carried over with minimal re-encoding to avoid generation loss, so the MP4 looks as close to the source as a standard container swap allows. If the source stream needs transcoding for compatibility, it's done at a high bitrate so the difference is invisible in normal playback. Either way, the clip stays short — a Live Photo is only a few seconds — so the MP4 is small and quick to share.

This is the exact scenario most people land here for: someone with an iPhone shared a Live Photo, it arrived on your Windows PC or Android phone as a mysterious .livp file, and nothing will open it. Double-clicking does nothing. Windows doesn't recognize the format, and Android's gallery treats it as an unknown file. The motion you were promised is locked inside an Apple-only wrapper.

Because this converter runs entirely in your browser, the operating system underneath doesn't matter. It unpacks the .livp, finds the MOV, and gives you a standard MP4 that plays in Windows Media Player, the Photos app, any Android video player, or right in the browser. No iPhone required, no Apple software, no codec pack — just a working video out of a file your system couldn't read.

If you've exported a stack of Live Photos and want the motion from all of them — say, to compile a montage or just to archive the clips — converting them one by one wastes time. Drop the whole set of .livp files in at once. Each package is unpacked, its MOV is pulled out and converted to MP4 locally, and you can download the clips individually or as one ZIP.

All of this happens on your own device through WebAssembly, so there's no upload, no server queue, and no per-file size cap imposed by us. Processing speed depends only on your hardware, and short Live Photo clips convert almost instantly even in large batches. Your footage never leaves your machine, which matters when the clips are personal.