Image format · .gif
GIF is the internet's animation lingua franca: short, silent, looping clips plus simple flat-color graphics. Its 256-color palette keeps cartoons and memes tiny, and literally every platform since the 1990s plays GIFs without special software.
Every tool runs in your browser — files never leave your device. Badges say exactly what each tool does with GIF.
GIF allows only 256 colors, so gradients and skin tones band into flat steps. For photographic clips, convert video to MP4 or WebM instead — smaller and full-color.
Browsers cannot encode GIF through canvas, so our converter bundles a gif.js worker that encodes frames locally in your browser. Nothing uploads; large images just take a few seconds.
Animated WebP is smaller and full-color but poorly supported in editors and chat apps. GIF remains the compatibility choice for short loops.
Yes — convert GIF to JPG or PNG to save the current frame as a full-color still image.