Spool - Live Photo Stitcher
Kevin Stauss Photo & Video iPhoneiPadiPod touch
Spool - Live Photo Stitcher is a free Photo & Video app for iPhone and iPad by Kevin Stauss. Requires iOS 17.0. Updated October 18, 2026.
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 2 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Oct 18
- 2026 · v1.2
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About Spool - Live Photo Stitcher
Spool finds the videos hiding in your Live Photos. Here's what I mean. If you've ever taken a bunch of Live Photos in a row (your kid blowing out birthday candles, the dog doing something weird, whatever), each one has about 3 seconds of video baked into it. When you take them close enough together, those clips overlap. Spool scans your whole photo library, finds those sequences, and stitches them into actual, playable videos. I built this because there's no good way to know which Live Photos in your library are actually longer videos worth watching. They're in there, but nothing tells you. Spool finds them for you. Open the app, let it scan, and you've got every hidden video in your library laid out in a grid. The first time I tested it on my own phone, I ended up scrolling 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. And 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 was sitting right there in Live Photos we'd taken without thinking about it and never watched back. That's the whole reason this app exists. Your first 3 exports are completely free, no watermark. One purchase, not a subscription, unlocks the full app forever. No ads either. Everything runs on your device. Spool reads your photo library, but your photos and videos never leave your phone. Place names come from Apple Maps, so looking up where a video was taken (or searching for a place) sends that location to Apple. No analytics, no tracking, no account to create. You can search your videos by location and filter by date. The stitching handles overlap trimming automatically. Consecutive Live Photos blend into smooth, continuous playback instead of stuttering or repeating frames. Made by one person. If you have questions or feedback, I'd love to hear from you.
What’s new
Version 1.2 · Updated October 18, 2026
Your first scan now ends right on your videos, with no pop-up in the way. Opening Spool again takes you straight to the grid. The grid is cleaner. The counts sit on the page, month names stay at the top while you scroll, and thumbnails are sharper, especially in two columns. Once you've watched a few videos, the counts shrink to one line so there's more room for the grid. Saving a video no longer stops for a dialog, and the playback tick only happens while you drag the scrubber. Light and Dark now follow your iPhone's setting, so the Appearance option is gone from the menu.
App privacy
The developer, Kevin Stauss, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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| App | Rating | Price | Last updated | Compare |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spool - Live Photo Stitcher | – | Free | October 18, 2026 | |
| LiveCut - Stitch LivePhotos | – | 0.99 USD | Mar 24, 2026 | Compare |
| Animly: Live Photo to GIF | – | Free | Sep 22, 2026 | Compare |
| LivePlus: Live Photo Camera | – | Free | Oct 24, 2026 | Compare |
| FrameDuo: Dual Camera Video | – | Free | Aug 26, 2026 | Compare |
| Live Face Dance - Funny Photo | 5.0 / 5 (1) | Free | Jul 17, 2026 | Compare |
| LiveCut - Photo to Live | – | Free | Oct 25, 2026 | Compare |