01 Archive

MoonMarrow

A lossless archive and restoration path for Apple Live Photos.

by YubeGreen

01Apple Live Photophoto + pairedVideo
02.alivelossless container
03Apple Live Photorestored

A Live Photo is not only a picture.

It is a still image, a paired video, and the information that keeps them together. Ordinary exports can flatten that relationship. MoonMarrow keeps the original parts intact and gives them a reversible path home.

.alive is an archive container, not a new media codec.

Original parts in. Original parts out.

PHOTOPAIRED VIDEO
.ALIVEarchive
RESTOREPhotoKit

Read from Apple Photos, preserve the original bytes, verify, then write back as a real Live Photo.

Evidence, not assumption.

SHA—256

Integrity check

The archive records hashes for the original media components.

BYTE = BYTE

Bit-exact intent

No transcoding is needed for the original photo or paired video.

META

Context retained

Creation date, location, and pairing information travel with the archive.

Made for the system that created it.

A native macOS project built around Photos and PhotoKit, with Swift, SwiftUI, AVFoundation, and CryptoKit used where they belong.

NEXTAlive WebInspect, verify and build .alive in the browser
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MoonMarrow

Desktop builds are available for macOS and Windows.