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How to Turn Photos Into a Video on Android

Last updated: September 23, 2026

A step-by-step guide to turning phone gallery photos into a shareable video on Android using Photo Video Maker.

To turn photos into a video on Android, open Photo Video Maker, select the photos from your gallery in the order you want them to play, then add music, a filter, and transitions before exporting the finished file. The whole thing takes just a few taps from start to finish, no computer required.

What do you need on your phone before you start?

Just your phone and the photos already sitting in your gallery. There's nothing to prepare in advance — no separate app for music, no separate app for editing. Photo Video Maker, made by Fetch Studio, is available on Google Play and handles the whole process in one place.

Before you open the app, take thirty seconds to think about which photos actually belong in this video. A trip, a birthday, a school year, a pet's first few months — pick a set that tells one story. Fifteen to twenty photos usually makes a video worth watching all the way through. Fifty photos makes one people scroll past.

Your photos don't need to match in size or shape either. The app reads JPG, PNG, and WebP files, which covers nearly everything already saved on an Android phone, whether it came from the camera, a screenshot, or a photo someone sent you on WhatsApp.

How do you actually build the video, step by step?

Once your photos are picked, the process is the same five moves every time:

The real-time preview matters more than it sounds like it would. Instead of guessing whether a filter or frame looks right and finding out after exporting, you see it applied to your actual photos as you tap through options. That saves you from re-exporting a video three times just to try different looks.

If you want your photos in a specific order rather than however they loaded from your gallery, the drag and drop reordering is where you fix that — do it before you add music, since music timing works best when the photo order is already locked in. For more on choosing and timing a track, there's a full guide on how to make a video from photos with music.

Which aspect ratio and export settings should you actually pick?

This depends entirely on where the video is going. If you're posting to Instagram or TikTok, you want a vertical aspect ratio so the video fills the screen with no bars on the sides. If it's headed to YouTube as a regular upload rather than a Short, widescreen is the better fit. There's a full breakdown of this in the guide to the best aspect ratio for Instagram Reels, and a separate one covering the best video size for YouTube Shorts if that's your target platform.

For resolution, 1080p is the safer default for anything you're sharing publicly — it holds up on a bigger screen and doesn't look soft when someone taps to fullscreen it. 480p is worth using if you're just testing a rough cut for yourself, or if you're sending the video somewhere with a weak connection and want a smaller file that sends faster.

Once you've settled on an aspect ratio, try to stick with it for the whole video rather than changing it partway through. Switching after you've already added filters and text usually means everything needs to be recropped or repositioned, which is extra work you can skip entirely by deciding the shape first.

What if your photos don't all match the shape you picked?

This comes up constantly, and it's not a problem you need to fix by deleting photos. A landscape photo dropped into a vertical video will need either to be zoomed in to fill the frame, or centered with space filling the rest. Both look fine — a close-up shot of a person usually works zoomed in, while a wide scenic shot often looks better centered so nothing important gets cut off the edges. Try it on one photo first and it's usually obvious which way your set needs to go.

Mixing photo shapes is normal, especially if some came from an older phone and some from a newer one. The app doesn't require everything to match going in — it just needs a decision from you on how to fill the frame once the aspect ratio's chosen.

How do you add music, text, and finishing touches?

Once your photos, filter, and transitions are set, open the music library and pick something that matches the mood of the video — there are categories for different occasions, so you're rarely starting from nothing. If you already have a song you want to use instead, you can import your own audio file from your device. For more options on where to source a track and how licensing works, see the guide on royalty free music for videos.

Text and stickers are worth adding at this stage too, especially for a title card at the start or a date and caption over a key photo. A short title — a name, an event, a year — gives the video a beginning instead of just starting cold on photo one.

When everything looks right in the preview, export as MP4 and pick your resolution. From there the file is ready to send straight to Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, or WhatsApp, or just save it to your gallery for later. Because the whole process happens inside one app on your Android phone, there's no exporting partway through to finish somewhere else — what you preview is what you get.

Start with your best set of ten to twenty photos the first time. Once you've built one video this way, the next one goes faster, because you already know which filter, frame, and music category you tend to reach for. You can find more guides like this one on the Photo Video Maker blog, or head to the homepage to get started.

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