Download the live photo app in the app store. Four free Live Photo alternatives that work on any smartphone

Photos Alive, or Live Photos as Apple calls them, have arrived on the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus. This option takes a series of frames and glues them into one picture, resulting in an animated photo in one motion. You don’t have to launch a graphics editor and stitch something together from several images yourself. Live Photo support has arrived on Facebook, so you can share funny shots with your friends.

But what if you don't have newest iPhone, and the phone on Android? Install the application from Google Play and resolve this issue. And yes, even if there is no complete copy of this function, but useful programs you can find it there without difficulty. Here are options worth considering.

Vine

Price: free

This application appeared back in the days when it was impossible to add videos to Instagram. The program is still popular, but it is not often remembered when people think about an alternative to Live Photos. And let it be completely analogous for now Apple apps didn’t appear, these short 6-second videos are the best for free creativity.

Fyuse

Price: free

Motion Photos

Price: free,

Works only on Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 edge

Samsung has made a Motion Photos feature for its top smartphones, which works like this: before you press the shutter button to take a photo, the phone takes a short video a moment before that. But the problem is that the animation will only live in the phone itself; Internet services do not support this cool invention.

Phogy

Price: free

GIF Camera

Price: free

The middle ground between photos and videos is GIF animation, which appeared much earlier than Live Photo. The advantages of gifs are that they are convenient to exchange, they can be easily recognized by any website, and in general it is difficult to imagine our life without these pictures. To create such animated sketches, you can use the GIF Camera application, in which we turn the video into an animation, speed up or slow down the speed, or even turn it upside down.

Both the iPhone 6S and 6S Plus are equipped with a 12-megapixel rear camera. This is the first time Apple has increased the megapixel count since the iPhone 4S, but that's not the only thing that makes the camera special.

The new iPhones also include a feature called Live Photos, which records the action 1.5 seconds before and after the photo is taken and creates a moving GIF image.

While the Live Photos feature is only available on the iPhone 6S and 6S Plus, there is third party applications, which introduce similar functionality to older iPhones and even Android and Windows phones. Here are some of our favorites:

Fyuse (Android and IOS)

Fyuse is described as a "spatial photography" app. It allows users to capture and share panoramic images, selfies, and 360-degree images that will move as you tilt and rotate the phone. Images can also be shared with friends on Facebook and Twitter, or users of the Fyuse app.

Fyuse is free for iPhone and Android devices.

Vine (Android, iOS and Windows Phone).

Vine is a video sharing application and social network owned by Twitter. It allows users to record short videos videos up to 6 seconds long. The camera only records when it senses touch on the screen. This makes it possible to quickly change videos on the fly, create stop-motion effects and visual illusions. Video clips (known as Vines) can be shared on Facebook, Twitter, or within the Vine app, where you can also comment and "revive" other clips.

Vine is free for iPhones, Windows Phone and Android devices.

Instagram (Android and iOS).

Another option for creating looping videos is using Instagram. popular application photo sharing owned by Facebook. The app is similar to Vine, but allows you to take photos in addition to videos up to 15 seconds long. There is also the option of applying filters to an image or video to make it look unique. Photos and videos can be shared on Facebook, Twitter or with other Instagram app users.

Instagram is available for free for iPhones and Android devices. The app is available for Windows Phone, however it does not have a video option. Windows users Phone interested in creating and sharing videos on Instagram can try 6tag.

GifBoom (Android and iOS)

Apple's Live Photos feature is similar to an animated GIF (looping images). There are a ton of apps on Android and iOS that let you create GIFs from images in your photo library. My favorite of these is GifBoom, which lets you create GIFs up to 60 seconds long from your camera or photos you've taken previously.

GifBoom is free for iPhone and Android devices. As an alternative, I also use Giphy.com, an easy-to-use web-based tool that allows you to search and create GIFs. Windows Phone users interested in the GIF maker app can try

Live Photo is an app that lets you bring photos of items with the signature Live Photo icon to life. Typically, such icons can be found on notepads, notebooks, holiday cards, puzzle boxes, and so on. The word “revive” means seeing an interesting animation through the lens of the camera built into the device. Working with the program is very simple. Just launch it, touch the “Revive” key and point the device at the desired item.

Products with Live Photo marks (and beautiful animations accordingly) are sold all over the world. If you have a lot of printing and office supplies at home, then you will probably find a “live photo” icon on some of them. But even for those who do not have such things and at the same time are eager to see in practice how it works this application, the developers have provided such an opportunity. Just try pointing your camera at a one dollar bill. The program will work not only with a real bill, but also with its image open on the monitor. By seeing what happens to a dollar in the lens, you'll get a rough idea of ​​how Live Photo works.

In order for some effects to work without a network connection, you will need to download a set with them. This is done directly from the main screen. The user only needs to select the desired set in the selector and touch the icon symbolizing the download. The program is completely free.

We make our friends happy Live Photos.

At first glance, the ability to take animated photos may seem like a redundant option in iOS. But having figured out how the mode works, the user will receive an additional tool to unleash their own creative abilities. In addition, the ability to take live photos has recently become available to owners of formally outdated devices.

And everything would be great if it weren’t for the fact of lack of support Live Photos online services and alternative software platforms. But if the support of a fashionable novelty in in social networks, the question is still open, then count on the appearance Live Photos Definitely not worth it on competing platforms. Owners of Android and Windows smartphones will only be able to see a static image. But there is a way out!

Convert into a digestible format

Because of Live Photos are essentially short videos, it would be quite logical to be able to upload them as videos or GIF animations at the system level. In iOS 9, unfortunately, such functionality is absent, but applications capable of coping with a similar task have already begun to appear in the App Store.

Live GIF

Application Live GIF was the first to offer users the ability to unlimitedly convert and share live photos.

The program interface is as simple as possible and does not burden the user with the need to make settings, except for the choice to send GIF or video.

Although the first versions of the application still contain some bugs, the developer promises to fix all the problems in the near future. On the other hand, sending GIF animations by mail and sharing videos works flawlessly.

However, while users are waiting for what was promised, Live GIF gets in my personal rating 3.5 stars out of five possible.

Lively

Interface Lively is also simple and practically devoid of conversion settings. The application will independently select from the feed Live Photos, after which all that remains is to convert them.

As an advantage over the previous application, Lively will only allow the user to select the GIF display speed. Yes, and it can only be called free conditionally. As part of the trial work, you can only convert and upload through the application 3 images, and to remove restrictions you need to pay 119 RUR.

GIF Toaster

For those hungry for more photo processing capabilities, there is a powerful GIF combiner GIF Toaster. A recent update just added support for it Live Photos. In addition, you can use it to assemble animated GIFs from individual photos, series of pictures and videos, after applying a variety of filters and effects.

IN free version the application allows you to convert any amount Live Photo, but significantly limits the range of settings and the quality of the final file.

The full version of the application, like its competitors, will cost 119 rubles. For this money, the application will stop annoying you with advertising, and the user will be allowed to create full-size files with playback speeds of up to 30 frames/sec, speed up animation up to two times, and apply unlimited filters.

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