PrivateMP3

MOV to MP3

Pull the audio out of a MOV and save it as an MP3.

MOV files from a phone are large for their length, which is exactly the case where uploading to a converter is painful.

Drop a video or audio file here, or open a file
Nothing is uploaded. The file is read straight off your disk.

MOV files from a phone

MOV is Apple's container. Inside, an iPhone recording is usually H.264 or HEVC video with AAC audio, and the audio part is what you are after. Because the audio is already AAC, extracting to M4A is a straight copy — worth choosing if you are heading into an editor rather than a car stereo.

Picking the file on an iPhone

If you are doing this on the phone itself, choose Browse or Files in the picker rather than Photos. Selecting a video from Photos makes iOS export a fresh copy of the whole thing before the browser is even handed the file, which for a long recording means several minutes of waiting with nothing on screen. A file already in Files is handed over immediately.

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Questions

Why is it slow when I pick from Photos on my iPhone?
iOS re-exports videos chosen from the Photos library before handing them to a browser. That happens before this page sees the file and cannot be skipped from a web page. Save the video into Files first, or pick it through Browse.
Does it handle HEVC video?
Yes. The video track is discarded without being decoded, so the video codec does not matter.