Spool - Live Photo Stitcher
Combine & Export as Video
Only for iPhone
Free · In‑App Purchases
iPhone
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.
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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.
The developer, Kevin Stauss, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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Information
- Seller
- Kevin Stauss
- Size
- 2.4 MB
- Category
- Photo & Video
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
English and 5 more
- English, French, German, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Spanish
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Remove Watermark $1.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Kevin Stauss