Video to GIF
Turns a clip into a looping GIF. Pick how smooth and how big it should be — everything happens on your device.
Drop a video here
MP4 and MOV — one at a time
Where do my files go?
Nowhere. The video is decoded and the GIF is built inside this browser tab. Nothing is uploaded, and closing the tab is all the cleanup there is.
Why is the GIF bigger than the video?
Because GIF is a 1987 format that stores every frame as a palette of at most 256 colours with no motion compression. A video codec looks at what changed between frames; GIF mostly doesn't. Expect a GIF to be several times the size of the MP4 it came from — that is the format, not the tool.
Why does the frame rate come out slightly different?
GIF stores each frame's delay in hundredths of a second, so only some rates can be written exactly. 20, 10 and 5 fps land exactly; 15 fps becomes 7/100s, which plays at 14.3. We tell you the real number rather than the one you asked for.
How long a clip can I use?
Up to 400 frames — 20 seconds at 20 fps, or 40 at 10 fps. Past that a GIF becomes tens of megabytes and browsers start to struggle, so we stop rather than hand you something unusable. Lower the frame rate to fit a longer clip.
Which files can I use?
MP4 and MOV. We read the container ourselves rather than shipping a 30MB media toolchain, so AVI and MKV are not offered rather than accepted and then failed on.
Other tools
- Compress videoShrink an MP4 in your browser. No 30MB toolchain to download — your device does the work.
- Audio extractorPull the sound out of a video. Nothing is re-encoded, so nothing is lost.
- Video trimmerCut a clip out of a video without re-encoding it. Nothing is lost, and it takes seconds.
- Video converterMOV to MP4 without re-encoding, or MP4 to WebM for the web. Nothing is uploaded.