MotionKeeper Live Photo Videos

MotionKeeper extracts the video hiding inside your motion photos and saves each motion photo as a standalone MP4 video you can keep.

A motion photo holds a still image and a short video clip in the same file. Save that clip as a video of its own.

WORKS WITH ANDROID MOTION PHOTOS

MotionKeeper is a motion photo video extractor for Android. It finds Google Camera motion photos, as shot on Pixel phones, and Samsung Galaxy HEIC motion photos. It does not support Apple Live Photos, which keep their video in a separate file.

ORIGINAL QUALITY - NOTHING IS RE-ENCODED

MotionKeeper copies the exact video bytes out of your photo. There is no transcoding and no resizing, so the saved MP4 is the clip exactly as your camera recorded it.

YOUR ORIGINAL PHOTO IS NEVER CHANGED

The source photo is opened read-only and is never written to. Your motion photo stays exactly as it was, video still inside.

WHAT YOU CAN DO

- Scans your photo gallery and lists the Samsung and Google Camera motion photos it finds.
- Works as a motion photo viewer: plays the hidden clip in the app, looping, before you save anything.
- Saves the video straight to your gallery, in its own DCIM/MotionKeeper album.
- Pulls out stills: drag through the clip and save any moment as a JPEG at the video frame’s full resolution.

EVERY SAVE IS CHECKED

Before it reaches your gallery, MotionKeeper opens the extracted clip in a real media player and confirms it has a genuine duration. After the save, it re-reads the new gallery video and checks the duration still matches. Anything that only half-saved is listed on a Failed Extractions screen, so you can retry it instead of losing it silently.

PICK THE BEST MOMENT, ON DEVICE

The best frame is not always the one you kept. Drag to the moment you actually wanted and save it as a photo at the video frame’s full resolution. MotionKeeper can also suggest a frame: it samples nine moments and scores each on detected faces, edge sharpness and exposure, all on your phone.

PORTABLE ARCHIVE

Pair your original photos with their saved videos in hash-checked ZIP volumes that restore independently, and send them anywhere through the Android share menu. Each volume holds up to 256 MB and 500 pairs, with up to 8 volumes per export. Later, open an archive in MotionKeeper again and restore both halves.

MORE

- Share a photo from any other app into MotionKeeper to extract just that one, with no gallery scan at all.
- Check for New Photos looks only at pictures MotionKeeper has never seen before.
- A progress notification tracks the scan while it runs.
- Optional weekly or monthly reminders to check for new motion photos. They survive a reboot.
- Batch select, extract in bulk, watch live progress, and cancel mid-run.
- Filter by Not Extracted, Extracted or All. A Motion Health card tracks what is still unsaved and what is verified in your gallery.
- On This Day brings back a motion photo taken on this date in an earlier year.
- Full extraction history, plus controls to clear the scan cache, history, temp files, or all app data.

PRIVATE BY DESIGN

There is no account and no sign-in, so you never hand over an email address. There is no analytics SDK and no crash-reporting SDK in the app. Finding, extracting, verifying and frame scoring all happen on your device, and your photos are never uploaded. The parts of MotionKeeper that use the network are Google Play's own billing and rate-this-app prompt.

ONE-TIME PURCHASE, NO SUBSCRIPTION

New installs get 10 free extractions. Saving from a photo uses one extraction; once you have saved that photo's video, saving it again, pulling stills from it and sharing it are free. Previewing and playing the hidden clip is always free. Unlimited extractions are a single one-time purchase, not a subscription - no renewal, no billing period - and a Restore Purchase button is there when you reinstall.

No ads. Just the videos already inside your photos, saved as files of their own.

Recent changes:
• Motion photos from more Pixel and Samsung phones, including HDR shots, now save their full video.
• Short clips, even under a second, save reliably, and videos you already saved are recognized automatically.