Open LIVP File Online

A .livp file is Apple's way of packaging a Live Photo for export. It is not a single image and it is not a single video — it is a ZIP archive holding both. Inside you'll find a HEIC still image (the photo you actually see) and a MOV video clip (the few seconds of motion you get when you press and hold it on an iPhone). Apple just gives that ZIP a .livp extension so the two pieces travel together as one file.

That design is elegant on Apple devices and baffling everywhere else. Your Windows PC or Android phone sees a file type it has never heard of, with no app registered to open it, so it simply refuses. The photo and video are sitting right there inside, perfectly intact — they're just wrapped in a container your system doesn't know how to unwrap. This tool unwraps it for you and shows you what's inside before you decide what to keep.

There's no codec or driver you can install to make .livp double-clickable on Windows, because it isn't really a media format — it's a packaging format that only Apple's Photos ecosystem understands. Windows 10 and 11 have no handler for the .livp extension, so double-clicking it pops up a “how do you want to open this file?” dialog with no good answer. Android is the same story: the gallery and file manager treat it as an unknown blob.

To make matters more confusing, even if you do get the file open, you'll find a HEIC image inside — and HEIC is its own compatibility headache that older Windows and Android versions also can't display. So the .livp problem is really two locked doors: an unfamiliar archive wrapper on the outside, and an Apple-first image format on the inside. Viewing it online opens both doors at once.

The point of this tool isn't just to convert — it's to let you look first. When you drop a .livp in, it unpacks the archive and shows you the actual still photo and a preview of the video clip, so you can confirm what you've got. That's genuinely useful when someone sends you a mystery file and you're not even sure whether it's a photo you wanted, a video, or both.

Once you can see the contents, you decide what to do with them. Want a normal picture to upload or print? Pull out the still as a JPG. Want the moving clip for social media? Pull out the video as an MP4. Want everything? Take both. Nothing is forced on you and nothing is altered until you choose — the LIVP is opened for inspection first, conversion second.

Because a .livp is literally a ZIP underneath, you can open it by hand. Make a copy of the file, change its extension from .livp to .zip, then open it with the built-in extractor in Windows or a tool like 7-Zip or WinRAR. Inside you'll see the HEIC image and the MOV video as separate files. On a Mac you can do the same with the Archive Utility.

It works, but it has two catches. First, you need file extensions visible and you have to be comfortable renaming files — a small but real hurdle for a lot of people. Second, you end up holding a HEIC and a MOV, both of which can still be awkward to open and share on a non-Apple device. The online route skips all of that: it unpacks the archive and hands you ready-to-use JPG and MP4 in the same step, no renaming and no extra software.

Despite the wording, your file is never actually sent to a server. The unpacking and conversion run inside your browser using WebAssembly, so the .livp is opened on your own device and its contents stay there. We have no server that receives your photos or videos, which means we can't see them, store them, or leak them — it's exactly as private as renaming the file and extracting it yourself, just far easier.

That local-only design has nice side effects too: there's no file-size limit imposed by an upload server, it keeps working even if your connection drops after the page loads, and there's no sign-up, no email, and no watermark. For files as personal as your own photos and videos, having them never leave your machine is the whole point.