Google Motion Stills turns your Live Photos into GIFs: Free iOS app now makes it easier to create looping animations

Despite their popularity, creating GIFS can still be a tricky process. But a new app from Google, called'Motion Stills', will allow you to easily create the moving images in just a few clicks. The app takes Live Photos, several frames automatically captured before and after you hit the camera app's shutter button, and turns them into GIFs or short video clips. 'We use our video stabilization technology to freeze the background into a still photo or create sweeping cinematic pans,' Ken Conley and Matthias Grundmann from the Google Research Machine Perception team said in a blog post. 'The resulting looping GIFs and movies come alive, and can easily be shared via messaging or on social media.'