Google’s new app helps stabilize Live Photos taken by iOS devices. Photo from Google Research Blog
Snapping pictures with unsteady hands almost always result in shaky, blurry and unusable images.
Google decided to rectify the situation and give you that Harry Potter-esque moving photo that you deserve. The app is called “Motion Stills” and is already available over at the Apple App Store. It can also create GIF files for sharing.
The app uses video stabilization technology that Google developed from YouTube and its other projects. It analyzes what is in the background as well as foreground and isolates those elements to produce a smoother clip by throwing out the blurry frames.
While the app is developed by Google, for now it will remain an iOS thing and no Android equivalent is yet available.