How to makes your iOS Live Photos less shaky and more awesome

How to makes your iOS Live Photos less shaky and more awesome

Apple’s Live Photo helps you to take your still photos as you always would, and iOS automatically captures a bit of footage from before and after the photo was taken and turns it into a little animation. Sometimes these animations are amazing – little coincidental gems that you never would’ve nabbed otherwise. Often, though, they’re blurry, shaky messes that you won’t want.

Same way, Google just released an app to try and fix this. Called “Motion Stills”, the new app exists pretty much solely to improve your Live Photos.

Borrowing much of what Google has learned from its video stabilization efforts on YouTube and other projects, the app analyzes your Live Photos and does a bunch of crazy stuff in no time flat:

• Throws out blurry frames, and tries to crop out bits where you’re just putting your phone back in your pocket
• Determines what’s in the background and what’s in the foreground and actually isolates them for better stabilization
• Tries to determine the best start/end point for the loop
• Makes a GIF for you to share

The app only exists on iOS for now — which makes sense, given that Live Photos are pretty much exclusively an iOS thing. Third parties have been working on their own alternatives to Live Photos for Android, but none really reign supreme.

Download Motion Stills app for iOS store right over here.