Lively - Photos to GIF Reviews

by Lu Gunn

A lot of potential wasted here! Yes, Lively can turn live pictures into “gifs” and it can adjust/trim the live picture itself, which they call “movie”. To put it accurately, this apps simply allows us to manipulate (edit) live pictures. That’s it! It doesn’t create anything! But get this, the “created” files are useless when trying to share in Facebook or trying to use in movie creator apps, such as Splice. Why would I want to create a “movie” or better yet “motion and gif” file out of a live picture file that can’t be used anywhere else but in my picture file folder? When sharing, you can only view the still picture and not even the live picture! So it doesn’t convert anything into motion...it simply edits your already motion/live pictures. That’s so pretty ridiculous, sad, and it makes Lively completely useless. I can share live pictures (that will appear still) without having to convert it into gif files!

Until you come up with a good way to interface with other apps and social media, Lively is USELESS AND WORTHLESS!

by Old_School_CS_guy

Click export GIF, then save, then delete app After realizing Lively serves no purpose and does nothing. If the file is saved certainly not saved to any place that can be accessed. No folder in files. Essentially the save button does nothing except tell you Lively is useless and needs to be deleted. By the way, To save your file to a folder you need to click share. The new definition of the word Intuitive is “&$@# you!”.

by GracieG303

I think I’ve only be able to open and see Lively once on my phone. I bought it specifically to send a group of Live Photo’s to a friend without an iPhone and the one time Lively actually opened the photos that I wanted to covert to gifs weren’t there. I have a large stored library on my phone which might be the issue. But I’ve been waiting for updates to Lively for months just to be able to open it without it crashing. I definitely wouldn’t buy it again. Wish it worked.

by Shaloha91

If this worked as intended it would get 5 stars, but there are too many bugs. Lively constantly rotates my photos to the wrong orientation and there is no way to rotate the photos in Lively . Also Lively needs to order the photos in its upload menu the same way that they are ordered on my iPhone (if I download an old photo, it is in the bottom of my “all photos” but in this app I have to dig through it as it is arranged in chronological order)
Also the “create gif” menu from the photos app doesn’t work half the time.

Good app but needs work.

by Xiacty

I stopped using the this app app, because I cannot find a way to delete projects from Lively . What if I change my mind about a picture I have uploaded, and I want to remove it? As well, I cannot afford the storage space on my phone, for projects that cannot be deleted. It seems strange, I have never used an app in which Lively creator keeps my private photos stored inside their app “forever” with no option for me to delete. So more likely, maybe it is just that I am not seeing the “delete project” option. Thanks if there is an answer.

by Lizfv

Lively is fun and easy to use. It allows you to "freeze" Live Photos into still photos at whatever moment you choose.

I just wish the movie feature had a little more functionality. I would like to be able to reverse movies and make boomerang movies as Lively allows you to do for gifs.

by Chef-T.

I really love using Lively. But recently it stopped loading pics. It will not connect to my photos anymore. Is there a limit to how many pictures you can convert before you are forced to buy Lively ?

by Sphbub

Lively is amazing and everything I’m looking for except that if I take photos with my phone on it’s side, it won’t import them as landscapes when they’re gifs. They end up being in portrait and this makes the image itself rotated on its side, and I can’t edit this anywhere I’ve found.

by AUGOLD325

I use Lively constantly. Every time I have a live photo that doesn't choose the best frame, I use this app to get the better one. The one major flaw, however, is a significant loss of color quality. I have to go into a different app to attempt to recreate the same saturation/exposure that was in my original photo.

by Ronin.Zero

The only thing stopping me from giving this 5 stars is that Lively sometimes turns my portrait orientation live pics into landscape orientated gifs. Currently no way to fix that on our own. It’s not an option and it’s no telling on which pictures it’s going to do it on. Otherwise, stellar app. Please fix that or at least allow us to rotate it if and when we want to do so.

by Saint Christy

I downloaded three apps to cut out the best and clearest pictures out of my live photos. This is by far the winner. Simple enough for a four year old, it also will make gifs and movies out of your live photos so you can send them to people that don't have iphones, computers, or even old style phones. I would give it 10 stars if it had a bigger screen to see your photos on! Guys, you Rock!!

by Faithfvll

great app and it does what it’s supposed to amazingly. The quality doesn’t change too much or anything but if I could say add one thing. Y’all should add a loop edit bc Instagram doesn’t allow videos shorter than three seconds and most Live Photo’s are just short of that time mark. If you allow ppl to loop the this app video so that it comes out to 5-6 seconds they’re already ready to post!!

by 😕Disappointed

App was, it is fun but I’m not getting my entire camera roll to choose my gif for. I have close to 10,000 photos in camera roll but only have Alittle over 800 of various date photos to pic from. I got photos that you have in there from various years just mixed up. How about putting entire camera roll in. Latest photos aren’t in there, and I just took a photo and that wasn’t in your list of my photos so I could pick it to use(?)
So list in order like camera roll, the photos and not have them so mixed up.
Big time mixed up.

by Myratingimo

I was thinking clean simple app designs were getting to be a lost art through hurry up and develop, Vs slow down and plan it out. this app delivers a clean simple well done app. Bravo to the planning team, and the developers, actually this is so good perhaps they are the same people

by HomerHorowitz

As a photographer that likes to dabble in video I love Lively. You can grab a frame from a live photo, turn it into a gif or mov. Adjust the speed and you have a nice little file. If you've ever played with the boomerang app, you know how dysfunctional it is to use. You have to time everything perfect as your taking it and then it takes a few seconds to save (making sure you miss your next shot). Now I just shoot with Live Photos and am pleasantly surprised about how much information was actually captured.

by Alicia M.H.

I work at an animal hospital and we are constantly trying to take pictures of wiggly pets. Lively is a time saver! Our clients love the photos we extract from the live photos and the funny gifs we make of their pets. I recommend Lively to everyone!

by In Situ

I found myself coming back to Lively more and more because the interface is so well thought out, and it turns my Live Photos into just the kind of gifs I want. It works better than Microsoft Motion Stills. I decided to pay and have the watermark removed.

by George Ledbetter

I have found this application to be extremely helpful. It allows sharing a video clip immediately. Also it enables the live feature and the header feature of Apple photos. Doing so in the photos app, it is somewhat difficult.

by Michelle Cohrene

They fixed their iCloud photo problems and it’s nice and speedy now (on my 6s). I love live photos and can’t imagine not being able to pick the best frame (though apparently that is native in iOS11 photos now) or more frequently, make adorable gifs of my cats. 😂

by BillyBorscht

Thank you for making a great app that is simple to use and makes good GIFs! I use this on my iPhone and can easily transfer the GIFs to my Macbook. Prior to this, I had tried other GIF apps that sucked, produced liw-quality GIFs, and added proprietary watermarks or cah-cah. I have grown to love Lively and its simplicity. Thank you.

by Visual.being

The only thing stopping me from giving this 5 stars is that Lively sometimes turns my portrait orientation live pics into landscape orientated gifs. Currently no way to fix that on our own. It’s not an option and it’s no telling on which pictures it’s going to do it on. Otherwise, stellar app. Please fix that or at least allow us to rotate it if and when we want to do so.

by EyePatchTiger

It works well turning Live Photos into GIFs, but I wish when turning them to a video format, it made the video 3 seconds instead of just under so I could post it to Instagram.

by Macxlab

This is obviously an app built by talented developers. Everything works as claimed, and the features are deep. Haven't seen anything else’s like it.

Apple should really step it up and add some native features for handling Live Photos, which are really an excellent addition to photography. Until then, thanks to people who write apps like this one.

I will buy and pay for Lively when a bulk feature for exporting movies is added. I really need a way to export hundreds of Live Photo’s at a time to movies stored in iCloud Drive. Lively does it perfectly one by one, but a bulk move is much more efficient.