Make animated GIFs from any video file in seconds. Everything runs locally in your browser using WebAssembly - no uploads, no signup, no watermark. Great for sharing demos in Slack, embedding in README files, posting to social, or dropping into docs.
No. The conversion runs entirely in your browser using WebAssembly. Your file never leaves your device and is never sent to any server.
10 fps gives the smallest files and is fine for talking-head or static-camera clips. 24 fps preserves smooth motion and is the right choice for action, screen recordings, or anything where the camera moves. Higher frame rates roughly multiply file size - a 24 fps GIF is about 2.4× the size of the same clip at 10 fps.
Instead of converting one short range of your video, Highlights mode samples 1-second clips evenly throughout the whole video and stitches them into a single GIF - like a fast-forward summary. For a 15-minute video you get one clip per minute. For shorter or longer videos the interval auto-adjusts so the output is always 15-45 seconds long.
GIF is an old format with a 256-color palette and no inter-frame compression like modern video codecs use. Even short GIFs can be several megabytes. To keep file size down: lower the frame rate, reduce the width, or shorten the duration. A 480 px / 10 fps / 4-second GIF typically lands around 1-3 MB.
Any file your browser's video element can decode - MP4, MOV, MKV, WebM, AVI, and most other common video formats. Audio is automatically dropped (GIFs don't carry audio).
The tool loads FFmpeg via WebAssembly (~30 MB) on first use. Once loaded it's cached by your browser, so subsequent conversions start immediately.
There's no hard limit imposed by this site, but very large or long files are constrained by your device's available memory since processing happens locally. Highlights mode handles long source videos gracefully - it only ever decodes the small clips it actually samples. The output GIF is limited to 45 seconds.
Yes. The converter works on modern mobile browsers. Larger files may be slower depending on your device.
Yes - use the Editor to cut your video first, then convert the result here.