Convert Video to GIF
Turn a few seconds of video into a looping GIF for a chat, an issue tracker or a slide — no watermark, no account, and nothing uploaded. Choose the stretch, the smoothness and the width, and see what it will weigh before you save.
- Processed on your device
- No upload, no waiting
- No signup, no watermark
How it works
Add your video
Drop an MP4, MOV, WEBM, AVI or any other video. A strip of frames appears.
Pick the seconds
Set the start and end, then the frame rate and width. Ten frames a second at 480 pixels suits most chats.
Download the GIF
It loops for ever, and the file size is shown before you save.
Frequently asked questions
Why is my GIF so big?
GIF is from 1989: no motion compression, and 256 colours a frame. A three-second clip at 480 pixels and 10 fps is usually 1–3 MB, and doubling the width roughly quadruples that. The width and the frame rate are the two dials that matter — drop one of them before you drop the length.
What frame rate should I choose?
10 fps looks fine for screen recordings and reads as smooth for most action; 15 fps is noticeably smoother and half again as large; 25 fps is for short, fast clips where the motion is the point.
How long can the GIF be?
Up to a minute, though anything past ten seconds is usually better as a video. The limit is there because a longer GIF is tens of megabytes — slower to load than the video it came from.
Is my video uploaded?
No. Frames are drawn and the GIF is built in your browser, and there is no watermark on the result.
Why do colours look banded?
A GIF frame can hold only 256 colours, so gradients, skies and skin tones get banded. Each frame is given its own best-fitting palette, which is as good as the format allows.
Does it keep the sound?
A GIF cannot hold sound at all. If the sound matters, keep the video and use Compress Video instead.
Good to know: At most 60 seconds and 900 frames per GIF. Transparency is not carried over. Every frame is stored in full, so the file size grows with the length, the width and the frame rate.