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title: "MOV to MP3 Converter — iPhone Video Audio | Compress Pro"
description: "Extract audio from iPhone MOV videos and save it as MP3 right in your browser — interviews, gigs and memos. No uploads, no length limits. Free & private."
canonical: https://compress-pro.com/mov-to-mp3
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# Convert MOV to MP3.

> The soundtrack of your MOV videos as MP3 — made locally.

Pull the audio out of iPhone and QuickTime MOV videos as MP3 — **everything runs in your browser**, nothing is uploaded, and there is no length limit. Concert clips, interviews, lectures, voice-heavy footage: the soundtrack downloads as a file of its own.

**No uploads · No ads · Free & open source.**

## How it works

1. Drop files anywhere on the page, click to browse, or paste with Ctrl/⌘ + V.
2. Pick a quality or preset — or set an exact target size and let the tool find it.
3. Compress, compare before/after, and download — individually or as a ZIP.

## iPhone video, audio-first

Sometimes the camera was just the way the sound got recorded. Extraction discards the picture and encodes the audio to MP3, so an hour of lecture footage becomes a small file any phone, player or notes app opens. [MP4 to MP3](https://compress-pro.com/mp4-to-mp3) is the same tool for MP4 files, [MP4 to WAV](https://compress-pro.com/mp4-to-wav) extracts editing-grade PCM instead, and the video itself shrinks on [Compress MOV](https://compress-pro.com/compress-mov).

## An hour of footage, in megabytes

The math is friendly: MP3 size is bitrate × time, and the video you are discarding was fifty times larger. For a typical hour-long MOV:

| Recording | Pick | An hour lands at |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Lecture, interview, meeting | 96–128 kbps | ≈ 43–58 MB |
| Concert or gig clip | 192 kbps | ≈ 86 MB |
| Ambient and field sound | 128 kbps | ≈ 58 MB |

## Frequently asked questions

### Does it work with any MOV?

Any MOV your browser can decode — iPhone recordings (H.264 or HEVC with AAC audio) are exactly that. The audio re-encodes to MP3; the picture is discarded.

### What bitrate should I pick?

128 kbps is clean for speech; 192 kbps and up for music and gigs. The preset default suits voice-heavy recordings.

### Is there a length limit?

No — an hour-long recording is fine. Processing runs on your device at roughly real-time speed or faster, and nothing queues on a server.

### Is it private?

Yes. The audio is decoded and re-encoded entirely in your browser — recordings never leave your device, and the server does nothing but deliver this page. Voice memos, interviews, demos: none of it is uploaded anywhere. Want proof? Run one file through, switch your connection off, and run another — it still works.

## Related tools

- [Convert MP4 to MP3](https://compress-pro.com/mp4-to-mp3)
- [Convert MOV to MP4](https://compress-pro.com/mov-to-mp4)
- [Compress & Convert audio](https://compress-pro.com/compress-audio)

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