【Secret Confessions (2025) Week 8 Highlights Episode 46】

Google's Motion Stills app just got a sweet update,Secret Confessions (2025) Week 8 Highlights Episode 46 allowing you to add text that can track moving objects in a video automatically.

The text follows motion, and can help produce a pretty slick effect on your GIFs.

SEE ALSO: Plenty of GIF and emoji fun with Android's latest update Via Giphy

Sadly for Android users, the app is iOS-only, because it's made specifically for the iPhone's Live photos -- the 1.5 seconds of video that the phone (and iPad) captures before and after a still photo is taken.

In the app, it only supports photos taken with the Live function toggled on, so you won't be able to do the text effect on videos, for instance.

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Google says the app is able to identify and track individual objects in a video, so it can automatically "stick" the block of text to the nearest moving object that you place it to.

Via Giphy

The Motion Stills app, first released in June, is primarily aimed at stabilizing your shaky Live photos.

Here it is doing a great job of tracking moving text without stabilizing:

Via Giphy

And here it is with stabilizing on:

Via Giphy

Now go make some great GIFs.

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