DeMotion: Strip Photo Motion

DeMotion turns Live Photos into plain stills — in place, in batches, on your device.

WHY USE DEMOTION

• Live Photos pack a video clip you rarely watch with the still you actually want. That clip can take 1-3 MB per photo. Across thousands of photos that's gigabytes of iCloud quota burning.
• Apple's "Duplicate as still" creates a copy and breaks "this day in history". Manual editing is one photo at a time.
• DeMotion strips just the video layer in place. Same photo identity, same date, same GPS, same album membership. The still stays. The clip is gone.

WHAT IT DOES

• Detects every Live Photo in your library in seconds.
• Lets you select what to strip (free tier: 20 per batch; Premium: unlimited).
• Strips the video component atomically per asset. If a single photo fails, the rest of the batch still completes.
• Preserves capture date, location, EXIF, album membership, edits, iCloud sync state.
• Apple Photos "Revert to original" still works for stripped Live Photos.

PRIVACY

• 100% on-device. Your photos never leave your phone.
• No accounts. No login. No tracking. No analytics.
• Free tier shows ads (banner only, never on photo content). Premium removes ads.

WHO IT'S FOR

• Anyone with iCloud quota stress.
• iPhone Live Photo accumulators (5k+ photos in library is a sweet spot).
• Privacy-conscious users who refuse cloud-based "compress" tools.

PREMIUM

• Lifetime: one-time purchase. No ads forever, unlimited batch.
• Annual: subscription. No ads while active, unlimited batch.
• Tip jar: optional, no entitlement.
• Restore Purchases: yes, on the Premium screen.

Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://macsiem.github.io/demotion-privacy/