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MOV

QuickTime Movie

MOV is Apple’s QuickTime container — what an iPhone camera and Final Cut produce. Structurally it is close to MP4, but it can carry codecs like ProRes that nothing outside the Apple ecosystem decodes.

Extensions: .mov .qt
MIME type: video/quicktime

01 Convert MOV to something else

MOV to MP3 Works on iPhone recordings the browser cannot even play.
MOV to WAV For editing and transcription, with no second compression.
MOV to GIF Works with screen recordings; iPhone HEVC needs a re-export.

03 Related formats

MP4
MKV
WebM

Opening a .mov file

If you landed here because something handed you a .mov file and nothing on your machine will open it, converting it to a format you already have a reader for is usually faster than installing new software. Every conversion above runs in this browser — the file is not uploaded, so it works on a locked-down work machine and on a file you are not allowed to send anywhere.