LivoCapsule

Make a gift your mother can keep. Name the people, tell what happened, and hand it over as a video, a web page and the photos themselves — no app, no account, nothing that expires.

for iPhone · free · coming to the App Store Email to express your interest

Your phone already knows when and where a picture was taken, and it can find the faces. What it cannot know is who those people are, what was happening, and why it mattered. That is the part only you can add, and it is the part that gets lost when the phone is replaced, the account is closed, or the person who knew the names is gone.

LivoCapsule is for adding that part quickly, and for passing it on in a form that lasts. A Memory becomes a gift: a short video with the story and your voice, a page that opens in any web browser, and the original photos with the names and the story written into them. Give it by AirDrop in the living room, send the video by Messages, or put the whole thing on a USB stick for a photo frame. The person who receives it keeps it. There is no link to expire and no service to outlive.

The name comes from the time capsule: the box a family fills with the things that matter, seals, and puts away so that people generations later can open it and see who came before them. A Livo Time Capsule is the same idea for the photos, voices and stories on your phone, and a gift is a capsule with a dedication on the front.

What it does

Names the people, fast: Livo groups your photos into Moments — a day, an outing — and finds the faces. You say who they are, a Moment at a time: tap the people who are in it, take off the ones who are not. The names go with the photos from then on.
Tells what happened: Give an event a name and a line of story — “the year Dad set off the smoke alarm carving the turkey” — or say it: hold the microphone and talk. The story travels with every photo from that day.
Makes a Memory: Pick the photos that tell the story, put them in order, add the words or your voice. Livo turns it into a short video, made on the phone, that plays anywhere.
Makes a gift: Add a dedication — to, from, the occasion, a message in your words or your voice — and Livo makes the video and seals the gift. You choose full size to keep, or a smaller one to send. Then AirDrop it, message the video, share a link, or save the photos for a frame.
Seals a capsule: One tap produces the capsule: the originals, the names, the story, the narration, the video, and a page that ties it together. It stays in your Files app and iCloud Drive, where you can copy it anywhere, and Livo checks every copy.
Opens anywhere: The person who receives it doesn’t need LivoCapsule, an Apple device, or an account. A browser is enough. The photos are inside, full size, with the names and the story written into them, so Apple Photos, Windows and every other app shows them too.
Opens again in LivoCapsule, exactly as it was made: A capsule never needs LivoCapsule. A browser will always do. But if the iPhone and LivoCapsule are still around when your great-grandchildren find it, they can bring the capsule back into the app and see the Memory just as it was sealed: the same photos in the same order, the same words and the same voice. What your grandmother put together fifty years ago appears the way she arranged it. It comes in as a faithful original, and anyone who wants to build on it makes their own copy and leaves hers untouched.
Keeps the originals original: Your photos stay in your photo library. LivoCapsule never deletes or alters them, and it works without the internet. A capsule holds copies; the library stays yours.
Finds what you mean: Livo Search understands plain requests, such as “Anna at the lake” or “when Tom was born,” and shows what it understood as chips you can correct with a tap. It only finds photos and never changes anything, and it works entirely on the phone.

What is inside

A capsule is a folder, zipped. Nothing in it needs Livo to read.

Livo-Capsule_grandmas-80th_20261108-101500_3f9a2c1e.zip

START HERE…htmlopens in any browser: the Memory, its people, places and stories …the video.mp4the Memory video, with the dedication, the story and your voice README.txtwhat this is, in plain English manifest.jsonan inventory, with a checksum for every file creation.jsonthe Memory: title, story, order of photos audio/…m4ayour narration, if you recorded one media/…jpg …movthe originals, untouched, with the names and story in their caption fields people/…jsonwho is in the photos locations/…jsonwhere they were taken

Free, and Livo Plus

LivoCapsule is one app with one optional purchase. Livo is free, with no limits, and for most families it is the whole thing. Livo Plus is a single one-time purchase that adds three kinds of thing: the printed and finished forms of a gift, tools for creating, and Curator, the tools for the one person who keeps the whole family’s photos.

Free, forever

Everything you need to name your photos, make something from them, keep it safe and pass it on. No account, no sign-in, no counts.

Bring in your photos and videos from the Camera Roll and iCloud Photos, with the duplicate clean-up. Your photos stay where they are.
Moments, the Gallery, Filter and Livo Search: by a name, a place, an event, a date, or words Livo has read on screenshots and saved pictures.
Tag the Moment, Name the Faces, Edit Tags: who is in a day’s photos, what the event was, where it happened; the faces one by one, with the photo peek and the clean-up of tags.
People, Places, Events, Life Events and Tags. A birthday on a person is what makes “Emma’s 5th birthday” searchable; the Tags list fixes a typo on forty photos at once.
Stories and tags, written into the photo files themselves.
Edit Photo and Rotate: crop and adjust a photo, and turn it. Edit Photo always saves a copy.
Memories, as many as you like, with narration in your own voice; Scrapbook and Collage pages; Share as Video for anyone, anywhere.
Time Capsules: seal, keep copies in iCloud Drive or any folder in Files, the weekly checks and repairs, Keepsakes, Bring in, Export, Share with Livo. The page inside opens in any browser.
Make a Gift: the dedication, the video Livo makes for you (with a small “with Livo” line), the whole sealed gift, the folder of photos for a frame or a TV, plain print-size photos, and sending by AirDrop, Messages, Mail or Files.
Receiving, always: opening a capsule or a gift someone sent, Watch, Add to My Livo, Save to Photos as an album. Nobody buys anything to receive what you made.
Backup & Restore to the phone and to Files or iCloud Drive; Activity, what Livo is doing in the background; the Trash; the Guide; all five palettes.

Livo Plus, one purchase

Made once, shared with your Apple family, never a subscription. It adds three kinds of thing.

For giving — the finished forms of a gift, for the people who like something in the hand or on the wall.

The gift book: an 8×8 PDF with the dedication on the cover, a page per photo with the names under each, the people at the back; plus the pages as pictures for print services that want images. Sealed into the gift, so whoever receives it can print it too.
The collage poster, 16×20, for a frame or a canvas.
Print-size photos with the names strip: “Anna and Laurie · November 2019” under each, so nobody writes on the back.
Order prints: a book from any Memories and pages, in your order.
Give it again: every delivery choice for a gift you already made.
Gift videos without the “with Livo” line.

For creating — three things Photos cannot do, nice when making and not needed to name, seal or give.

Edit Segments: cut a long recording, a transferred videotape or an hour of a party, into pieces, each dated so it lands in the Moment of its own day.
Stitch videos: several clips joined into one, in your order, for a Memory or a gift.
Save Frame as Photo: a still from any moment of a video, as a photo of its own.

For the family’s archive (Curator) — for the one person who keeps thirty years of everyone’s photos.

Scan Prints: the shoebox in, with the camera, a stack at a time, named as you go.
OneDrive: photos from OneDrive folders brought in; backups and a copy of every capsule kept in your own OneDrive; capsules sent as links.
Family Share and the Family Library: what each person shares from their own OneDrive, read-only to the others, with a catalog so the family’s phones find photos by name.
Buckets: a shelf for photos you want out of sight but not gone — the thirty near-identical shots of a burst, the photos from a past relationship you are not ready to see every day but would not delete forever, the paperwork photographed for a form. They leave the Gallery and search, and come back with a tap.
the full selection bar: browsing and triage for a very large library.
Reference and Saved-image Kinds, thumbs-down, Picks and To Review.
Media Sources, Where my photos are, Send to Photos, and Check a backup drive, which proves a mirror of your photos on an external drive is complete.

Who Curator is for

The archive half of Livo Plus is for the person who hits one of these moments.

The shoebox: There are prints in a closet, albums at Mom’s, slides in the basement. Nobody else is going to scan them, and if they aren’t scanned and named while the people who know the faces are still here, the names are gone. Curator scans prints.
The drawer: Thirty years of photos didn’t arrive on one phone. They came through film cameras, a point-and-shoot, three generations of iPhones, somebody’s Android, two laptops, a stack of memory cards and a OneDrive from work, each with its own formats and its own idea of the date. Curator brings OneDrive in, shows what came from where, and gives you Buckets and Life Events to put thirty years in order.
The relatives: The family isn’t all on iPhones and isn’t all in one house. Someone has to be the place the photos gather and are shared from. Curator’s Family Library and family folders, through your own OneDrive, make one person’s phone that place, with nothing passing through a company server.
The scale: At eight hundred photos, Moments and People are enough. At twenty thousand you want finer kinds of photo to hide or find, the words read out of a photographed letter or recipe card, and every tool on the bar. Curator has them.
The job: Most of all, Curator is for the person who has decided this is a project. They’ll spend evenings on it for months. Everyone knows they’re the one to send photos to, and the one who’ll have the answer when someone asks “do we have a picture of Grandpa in uniform?” That person wants tools, not simplicity, and is glad to pay once for them. Free Livo is for the photos on your phone. Curator is for the person who has become the keeper of everyone’s.

Buying it

Livo is free, with no count of photos, Memories, capsules or gifts. Livo Plus is one purchase: no subscription, no trial that expires, and it supports Apple’s Family Sharing, so one purchase covers your family’s devices. Nothing you have made is ever locked: with or without Plus, everything you have already made stays yours to see, edit and export, and the tools Curator made (Buckets, OneDrive copies) stay readable when Curator is off.

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Requires iOS 17 or later. Capsule files open in current versions of Safari, Chrome, Firefox and Edge on any operating system. Livo Enterprises runs no servers and never sees your photos.