Spool

Spool

Live Photos, actually useful

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Released
October 14, 2026
Updated
October 25, 2026

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Making Live Photos actually useful. Spool turns the Live Photos, videos and photos already on your iPhone into one polished movie, without wrestling a timeline. Your Live Photos stop sitting forgotten in the library and become the moments that make the movie. PICK A VIBE, GET A DRAFT Tap the wand, choose Memories, Hype, Chill or Highlights, and pick the days. Spool chooses the best clips, skips the look-alikes, fits the length you asked for and lines everything up in a draft you can still change. YOUR FIRST AND LAST CLIP Tick a first and a last clip, and Spool builds the movie between them. Those two always stay at the start and the end. SMART WITHOUT THE WORK • Groups your clips into moments, so the whole trip is covered, not just the busiest hour • Rates sharpness, light and faces, and drops near-duplicates • Trims long videos to their liveliest few seconds • Adds day titles and places, such as "Byron Bay · Saturday 3 October" • Bounce, slow motion, fast forward and repeats, from Mild to Wild MUSIC, LOOKS AND MOOD • A built-in library of songs that loop under your movie and fade out at the end • Add ocean waves underneath, and turn the clips' own sound down so the music shines • Looks for the whole movie: sepia, noir, golden hour, neon and more • Hear and see your changes together in the live preview EDIT LIKE YOU MEAN IT • Trim with a filmstrip, change speed, repeat, bounce or mute each clip • Draw on a clip, crop it, and drag, pinch and twist captions into place, with emoji, colours and the place name • A different transition at every join: fade, dissolve, slide, wipe, circle, pixelate, dip to black • Fill, Fit, or Fit + blur, in portrait or landscape • Steady shaky videos, and a slow zoom on photos BUILT FOR BIG TRIPS Spool reads your library as you scroll, so even a library of hundreds of thousands of photos stays quick. Or pick one of your albums and work from just that. A month-long trip with hundreds of clips is fine. FINISH LATER, SHARE ANYWHERE • Save a draft, with its music and edits, and come back to it • Choose Small, Standard or Best quality, with the estimated size shown, so it fits in Messages or email • Save to Photos, share, or make a GIF • Every finished movie is kept in the app until you delete it PRIVATE BY DESIGN Spool works on your device. It never changes or deletes your photos, has no account, and never uploads them. The iPhone app shows ads, and a one-time purchase removes them. Questions? https://daviddef.github.io/spool-app/support.html
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What's New in Spool

1.0.2

October 25, 2026

• Spool now shows ads on iPhone: a small banner in the library and a full-screen ad after a finished movie (never more than one every few minutes). A one-time purchase, Remove ads, turns them off for good. Find it in the Archive menu. • Combine takes more clips: up to 12 as rapid cuts, 9 as a collage and 8 as a stack. Collage and Stack are also more reliable on iPhone. • If a combined clip can't be put together, Spool now tells you why instead of quietly showing only the first clip. • Fixed: clips you had picked could be lost if Spool was closed while it was still opening. • Fixed: Clear now clears everything, including old edits and combined clips. • Fixed: saved drafts keep the clips inside combined clips, and opening a draft with missing clips no longer lets Update delete them. • Fixed: Rapid cuts failing for some clip counts, the end of some trimmed clips showing black, and Reset in the editor removing a combined clip's group. • Fixed: the buttons under the timeline could stop responding, and tapping a clip while the movie was updating could leave a spinner that never finished. • Long GIFs now explain the 45 second limit instead of running out of memory. • Smoother scrolling and picking in large libraries, and better VoiceOver labels.

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$4.99

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Removes all ads from Spool for good.

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