Extract a frame from a video as a photo

Overview

Open a video and move through it with the scrubber. It shows the current time and frame number and steps one frame at a time, so you can land on the exact instant rather than the nearest second: the frame where everyone's eyes are open, the moment the ball crosses the line, the slide that was on screen. Tap Save and the frame becomes a photo at the video's full resolution, 3840 × 2160 pixels from a 4K clip.

You choose the file type. JPEG at 95% quality gives a compact file that opens anywhere and is right for most photos. PNG is lossless and suits screenshots of text, diagrams and interfaces where compression artefacts would show. The still is saved to My files alongside your other photos and documents, and the video itself is not altered. The whole process runs on your device, with no upload and no account needed, so it works offline.

Extract frame turns video into the photo you forgot to take: the group shot from a clip of the party, a product angle from a demo, a reference still from a tutorial, the frame you want to annotate or print. For a cover image sized for a platform use Video thumbnail, and for several frames as a swipeable post use Carousel; Extract frame is for the one picture at full size.