Lively User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience37.8% of reviews
Neutral11.5% of reviews
Negative experience50.7% of reviews

~ Based on 217 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is Lively Safe?

Lively - Photos to GIF appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Lively is 92/100.

This assessment is based on 2,378 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.6/5.

Safety Analysis

88.8% of ratings point to a safe experience
2.4% of ratings suggest some concerns
8.8% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 2,378 App Store ratings for Lively.

Is Lively Legit?

Lively - Photos to GIF appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Lively is 90/100.

Based on 90 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Random issue

Changes colour so it’s discoloured when saved as a gif or still frame but the colour is retained for the movie? Needs sorting but other than that normally 5/5 for saving Live Photos with retained quality

Nope

No longer works.

Abandonware

Hasn’t been updated in two years. App crashes if you load a Live Photo into the GIF maker—even from the long press shortcut from the Home Screen.

No longer needed. Use Shortcuts instead.

This is a great app, but there’s no a shortcut that does this. Go to Shortcuts and search for “Make GIF.” Add the shortcut and turn on “Show in Share Sheet.” Then you can use the share button to run the shortcut from Photos. Enjoy!

Changed

Used to work seamlessly, but now force closes when I’m trying to make a video into a GIF

Not even worth it even if this app was free

terrible, Really it’s a garbage app so happy i didn’t pay for this app I did try it out and then tried to send the gif to a friend, after an hour of waiting for the gif to be sent without success I deleted the message and the app. Just a terrible app.

Great except for 1 issue

Had no problems with this app for years. However I got a new phone with iOS 16. Installed the app. Now inside the app the GIF preview only plays once. Doesn’t matter if Reverse or Back-And-Forth is checked off — it plays the preview once, then plays again and stops 1/4 the way through it. Trimming the GIF is still no issue, and it’ll play it fine while scrubbing, but still won’t play a whole preview again.
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No longer updated and doesn’t work with current IOS

App just shows a blank screen until in crashes. Looks like no updates in over a year.

Love the idea and simplicity but NEEDS updates bad

Love this idea I even purchased to remove the watermark but then of course I started having major issues. Long lags when loading photos. Choosing photos and then saying “oops! error. please try again” but as many times as i try it doesn’t work. Selecting photos is also super buggy.

Saw the last update was a year ago and wish I had seen that before buying to remove the watermark.
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Export is not as advertised

Why do you state that one is able to export the gif or movie to FB, Instagram, etc., when, in fact, it does not go thru as a gif or movie to these sites or any type of sharing site?
Love the pics it makes, but they are useless if you can’t share them.

Bad app

It doesn’t give me all my pictures that I selected access to all photos. It’s a waste of time. It’s not good. Don’t get this app you will be disappointed in the lack of work that this creator made.

Sound Please

I would like it to have the option to keep the original sound as in the moment is fully realized with sound. Like the app but just wanted to make this request.

Doesn’t export anywhere

Works well, but gifs and movie output wont export to google drive, email, or Facebook, unless I’m missing something. No way to ask the developers.

Access to photos is limited.

The app will not access all of one’s photos. You are limited to what the program decides.

No fuss, no bloated mess

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. Lively 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

Click export GIF, then save, then delete app

Click export GIF, then save, then delete app After realizing the app 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 the app 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!”.
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Crashes all the time

This is useless. Open it up, choose your file then it just crashes. Sort it out!

Wish my photos didn’t immediately blur out

Great app easy to use EXCEPT my photos are all grainy once I move them to gif. Forwards or backs it’s very frustrating

Free with a watermark

How about the option to watch an ad and edit one Live Photo without a watermark

Blank screen

I downloaded this app twice and when I open it, there is a blank white screen - nothing.