GIF Maker & Editor

An animated GIF is still the most universal way to share a short, silent, looping moment — a reaction, a product demo, a before-and-after, or a logo that gently moves. It plays automatically almost everywhere, needs no player, and works in chats, docs, emails, and forums alike. This guide shows how to make a GIF from images, turn a video clip into a GIF, and edit an existing GIF — and all of it happens in your browser, with nothing to install.

Make a GIF from images

The simplest GIF is a sequence of still images shown one after another. Open the Make tab and add your pictures in the order you want them to play. You can drop several at once. As you add them, a frame strip appears so you can check the order and remove any frame you don’t want.

Two settings shape the result:

• Frame delay — how long each image is shown, in milliseconds. Around 100–300 ms per frame is typical. A shorter delay means faster, smoother motion; a longer delay gives a slideshow feel.
• Loop — whether the GIF repeats forever (the usual choice) or plays once and stops.

The preview plays the real animation at your chosen speed, so you can tune the timing before committing. When it looks right, click Make GIF and download.

Turn a video into a GIF

To pull a GIF out of a video, open the Video tab and choose an MP4, WebM, or MOV file. Set a start point and a duration to trim the exact moment you want, then pick a frame rate and a width. Click Video to GIF and the tool renders a clean animation using a high-quality colour palette so it looks crisp rather than banded.

Video conversion is the one feature that uses a heavier engine: a WebAssembly build of FFmpeg. It loads the first time you convert — that’s the brief pause you may notice — and then your browser caches it, so subsequent conversions start quickly. Your video is read locally on your device.

Edit an existing GIF

Already have a GIF that’s the wrong size, too long, or too heavy? Open the Edit tab, load the GIF, and pick what to do. Every option decodes all the frames, applies your change, and re-encodes a fresh animated GIF — the loop and per-frame timing are kept.

• Resize — change the width and height to exact pixels. Lock the aspect ratio to keep the proportions, or set both freely. Reducing the width is also the single most effective way to shrink a GIF’s file size.
• Crop — trim the edges off every frame to remove dead space, a border, or a corner watermark. Crop the longer sides equally to make a neat square for social feeds.
• Speed — play the GIF faster or slower by adjusting the delay between frames. No frames are dropped or added, so slowing down stays perfectly smooth.
• Reverse — flip the frame order so the action runs backwards. Combine a normal and a reversed copy in the Make tab for a bouncing ping-pong loop.
• Optimize — shrink the file with three levers: fewer colours, fewer frames (keep every other one), and a smaller width.

What actually makes a GIF smaller

GIFs can be surprisingly heavy because each frame is stored as a full image with its own colour table. When you need a smaller file, change these in order of impact:

1. Width — halving the width can cut the file to roughly a quarter, since every frame loses pixels in both directions.
2. Frame count — dropping every other frame nearly halves the data. A loop at 12–15 fps usually looks fine.
3. Colours — lowering the colour quality uses a smaller palette per frame.

Make one change, rebuild, and check the size shown next to the result. A little iteration gets you a GIF that’s both small and good-looking.

Saving the frames instead

Sometimes you want the individual pictures, not the animation — to edit a single frame, build a contact sheet, or feed them into another tool. In the Edit and Video tabs, Download frames / Extract frames saves every frame as a numbered PNG inside a single ZIP file, ready to unzip.

Privacy and how it works

The GIF is built in your browser using the canvas and a JavaScript encoder, and video conversion runs a WebAssembly build of FFmpeg locally. Because the work happens on your device, the finished GIF is created there too. How any data associated with the tool is handled is described in our privacy policy.

When you’re ready, scroll back up and try the GIF maker and editor. It’s free, works on phones and desktops, and never adds a watermark.