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Convert MOV to MP3

A voice memo filmed on an iPhone, a lecture, a song at a concert: drop the MOV here and keep just the sound as an MP3.

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MP4, MOV, WebM or MKV. It opens right here, on your device.

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Tested in the browser

BrowserResultWhat came out
Google Chrome 155ConvertedMP3
WebKit 27.2 (Safari’s engine)ConvertedMP3

On October 24, 2026, a 10-second 1280×720 MOV (H.264 video, AAC sound) went through this page’s button in each browser, and what came out was read back with ffprobe.

The test file carried a location tag; no converted copy kept it.

iPhones record HEVC video by default. A MOV like that converted in Google Chrome 155 and WebKit 27.2 (Safari’s engine).

When to turn MOV into MP3

iPhones save video as MOV, and sending a whole video when only the sound matters is heavy and awkward. An MP3 is small, plays everywhere and drops straight into a podcast, a playlist or a message.

Because the MOV is opened in the browser, a long recording never has to travel to a server. The sound comes from the video’s main track at its own level; if it is noisy, open the clip in the editor first and reduce the noise there.

MOV and MP3, in short

MOV
Apple’s QuickTime format. iPhones and Macs save videos and screen recordings as MOV, and recent iPhones put HEVC video inside, which some computers and apps can’t play.
MP3
The sound format every device and app plays, from car stereos to podcast hosts. It is compressed, so files stay small and a little detail is traded away.

How to convert

  1. Open the MOV

    Press the button and drop the file, or pick it from your files. It opens in this browser tab: nothing is uploaded, so there is no upload limit to hit.

  2. MP3 is already chosen

    The save window opens set to it. Change the file name or the quality if you like.

  3. Save

    The new file is written on your device and downloaded. Several files? Drop them together and they are converted one after another.

What changes, what stays

Picture
Left out: only the sound is saved.
Sound
The first sound track, at its own level, in stereo at most.
Quality
Small 96 kbps · Balanced 160 kbps · High 256 kbps: a minute of MP3 at Balanced is about 1.2 MB.
Details about you
The file is written from scratch, so none of the original’s metadata comes along: no location, no camera or phone model.

Questions

Do I need to convert the MOV to MP4 first?

No. Drop the MOV as it is; the sound is read from it directly.

Will the MP3 keep stereo?

Yes, if the video has it. Sound with more than two channels is saved as stereo.

What if the video has no sound?

Then there is nothing to save, and Shycut says so instead of making an empty file.

Your video stays with you.

Open Shycut, drop the video in and export. Free, with no account, and your video never leaves your device.

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