# DeMotion: Strip Photo Motion

> Make stills from Live Photos

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id6765819998](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id6765819998)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id6765819998`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Maciej Sieminski
- **Category:** Photo & Video
- **Version:** 2.0.2
- **Last updated:** 2026-08-11
- **First published:** 2026-05-12
- **Size:** 57 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-13
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/demotion-strip-photo-motion/id6765819998)
- **Website:** [https://macsiem.dev/demotion/](https://macsiem.dev/demotion/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://macsiem.github.io/demotion-privacy/](https://macsiem.github.io/demotion-privacy/)

## Description

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 account, no cloud upload: your photos are processed on your device. 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/

## Rankings

- #1,400,079 — Overall

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