Turn a video into an animated GIF locally in your browser - pick the width and frame rate. The video never leaves your device. No upload.
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No. Everything runs in your browser - your file never leaves your device. How this is verifiable
An animated GIF is the simplest way to share a short clip: it plays automatically and on a loop in every chat, every email and every web page, with no player and no click. This tool slices your video into individual frames, scales them down to the chosen width and assembles them into a GIF animation. Ideal for a quick reaction, a small how-to or a moving thumbnail.
You choose the width (480, 320 or 240 pixels), the frame rate (10 or 15 frames per second) and optionally a start time in seconds, in case the scene you want is not at the beginning of the video. The tool decodes the video with your browser native video decoder through the WebCodecs interface, grabs individual frames at even intervals starting from that point and encodes a GIF with 256 colours per frame. The height follows automatically from the aspect ratio so nothing is distorted. A lower width and frame rate keep the file small.
As with all tools here, the conversion happens strictly locally in your browser - the video is not uploaded and no codec library is loaded from a foreign server. GIF only knows 256 colours per frame, so gradients look coarser than in the video; that is a property of the format. There are deliberately no GPL codecs: only the decoder your browser ships with is used.
An end time can optionally be set as well, to produce a shorter clip than the full 30 second cap, along with a loop count instead of the default endless loop - handy for a GIF that should only play once or a few times.
| Input formats | MP4, M4V, WEBM, MOV, MKV |
|---|---|
| Output format | GIF |
| Batch processing | No |
| Processing | Locally in your browser (WebCodecs) |
| File upload | None |
Limitations: GIF uses only 256 colours per frame, so gradients are coarser than in the video. For memory reasons at most 30 seconds and at most 300 frames are used starting from the chosen start time; everything after that is dropped. It needs a modern browser with WebCodecs (recent Chrome, Edge or Safari); if that is missing, you get an honest message instead of a silent failure. Very large files (over 300 MB) are rejected. The optional end time sets a shorter clip; the loop count defaults to endless but can be set to a fixed number or a single playback.
No. The conversion runs entirely locally in the browser; the video never leaves your device - that is the whole point.
GIF stores only 256 colours per frame. Fine gradients are shown more coarsely as a result - that is down to the format, not the conversion.
At most 30 seconds and at most 300 frames are used starting from the chosen start time. If the scene you want is later in the video, enter the start time in seconds - the part before it is then skipped instead of always taking the beginning. An end time can optionally be set too, for a shorter clip.
A modern browser with WebCodecs (recent Chrome, Edge or Safari). If support is missing, you get a clear message.
Yes. The loop count can be set to once (no loop) or a fixed number (repeat 1x/3x/5x/10x) instead of the default endless loop.