Video to GIF
Turn a short video clip into a high-quality animated GIF — rendered entirely in your browser, with nothing uploaded.
Your video never leaves your browser. The GIF is rendered on your device via WebAssembly — nothing is uploaded.
How it works
Choose your video clip
Pick a frame rate and width
Make GIF and download
About this tool
This free video-to-GIF converter turns a short clip into an animated GIF you can drop into a chat, a README, a slide or a social post. To keep the result sharp, it generates a custom colour palette from your clip and applies it in a single pass, which looks far better than a default-palette GIF. Everything runs in your browser through ffmpeg compiled to WebAssembly, so your video is never uploaded and there is no signup, no watermark and no size cap. Because GIFs grow quickly with length and frame rate, trim your clip to a few seconds and pick a modest width for the smallest file. Prefer to keep it as a video? Try the video compressor.
Frequently asked questions
Choose your video, pick a frame rate and width, then click Make GIF. The tool builds an optimised colour palette and renders a high-quality animated GIF in your browser.
No. The conversion runs on your device with ffmpeg compiled to WebAssembly, so your clip never leaves your browser.
GIF is an old, inefficient format, so a GIF is often bigger than the source video. Lower the frame rate and width, and keep the clip to a few seconds, to keep the file small.
15 fps at 480px is a good default for sharing. Use 24 fps for smoother motion, or 320px and 10 fps for a small, lightweight GIF.
Never. Your GIF is clean, with no watermark or branding.