Spool
Finds the videos hiding in your Live Photos.
Free to try • iPhone, iOS 17+
$1.99 one-time to remove the watermark. No subscription. No ads. No tracking.
Your Live Photos Are Hiding Something
You took a bunch of Live Photos at your kid's birthday, on vacation, or at a concert. Each one has about three seconds of video baked into it. Those clips sit inside individual photos, and nothing in your library tells you which ones add up to something worth watching.
Spool scans your whole library for Live Photos you took back-to-back and stitches them into real videos. No picking, no editing. It trims the overlap at each seam so the result plays as one continuous clip instead of stuttering or repeating frames.
Open the app, let it scan, and you get a grid of every hidden video you have; how many there are, and how many hours of footage were sitting in there. Your photos and the stitching never leave your device.
"Finds the videos hiding in your Live Photos."
How It Works
Scan, preview, export. That's the whole thing.
Automatic Discovery
Spool scans your entire photo library for Live Photos taken within moments of each other. No manual selection required.
Seamless Stitching
Overlapping frames are trimmed automatically so your stitched video plays as one continuous, seamless clip.
Audio Preserved
Every stitched video includes the original audio from all your Live Photos. Hear the moment, not just see it.
Privacy-First
Your photos and every stitch stay on your device. No account, no analytics, no photo or video data uploaded anywhere. Location search is the one feature that reaches the network, and it goes to Apple Maps.
Free to Try
Your first three exports are free with no watermark. After that a small watermark appears, and a one-time $1.99 purchase removes it for good.
Save or Share
Save straight to Photos, or hand it off to the share sheet for Messages, AirDrop, or anywhere else. Exports are standard .mp4 at the original resolution and frame rate.
Search by Location
Type a city, a park, a restaurant. Spool matches it against where your Live Photos were taken and shows you what you shot there.
Sort and Filter
Sort by newest, oldest, longest, or shortest. Jump to a single month, or hide the two-second clips so only the real finds are left.
Filmstrip Preview
Every video sits above a filmstrip of the Live Photos it came from. Scrub the timeline and the frame you're currently in lights up.
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See Spool in Action
Scan, preview, and export in seconds
The Story Behind Spool
I was scrolling through old photos and noticed I'd taken a dozen Live Photos in a row at my kid's soccer game. Each one had a few seconds of video sitting inside it, and there was no way to watch them as the one thing they actually were.
So I built the stitcher. The first time I ran it on my own phone I scrolled for a solid hour. I wasn't expecting that.
I found clips of my wife and me from before we got married; just normal stuff, us being us. Then videos of both our boys when they were still babies, doing all the things babies do that you forget about a year later. All of it had been sitting in Live Photos we took without thinking and never watched back.
That's the whole reason this app exists. Open it, let it scan, and see what you already have.
Ready to Find Your Hidden Videos?
Free to Try. One Price to Keep.
No subscription. No ads. No tracking. Ever.
Built by someone who accidentally found a soccer game video hiding in his own Live Photos. Spool finds yours the same way. Open it and let it scan.