Turn any part of a video into an animated GIF, right in your browser. Choose the size and the frame rate and see what it will weigh before you make it. No upload, no account, no watermark.
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Free, no watermark, no account. Any length that fits in memory.
Three steps and a few seconds, with nothing to install and no account to make. It works in your browser, on a computer or a phone.
Drop a file on the page, or pick one from your phone's videos. MP4, MOV, WebM and MKV all work.
Drag the ends of the timeline to the part you want, to the exact frame, then pick a width and a frame rate. The page says roughly what it will weigh before you make it.
It's encoded on your device and saved with the original's name: holiday.mp4 becomes holiday_ohsovideo.gif.
It plays itself, everywhere. A GIF starts on its own in a chat, a pull request or a document, with no player and no tap. That's the whole reason the format outlived its own obsolescence.
Showing a bug or a feature. A three-second GIF in a GitHub issue explains what a paragraph can't, and it loops until the reader has seen it.
A reaction or a joke. Short, small and silent is the point: nobody watches a reaction with the sound on.
Somewhere video isn't allowed. Email signatures, some documentation and older forums take an image but not a video.
Keep it small. Chat apps cap what they'll take (see the platform limits); if it's still too big, take a shorter stretch or a smaller width. For sharing the video itself instead, compress video gets it under a size without turning it into pictures.
Choose your video, drag the ends of the timeline to the part you want, pick a width and a frame rate, and export. It's made in your browser, on your device, and nothing is uploaded.
GIF is a format from 1989 with no motion compression: every frame is stored as its own image, so a GIF is usually ten to twenty times the size of the video it came from, and sometimes far more. The three things that bring it down are a smaller picture, fewer frames a second and a shorter clip, which is why this tool puts all three in front of you with the size it expects.
480 pixels wide at 12.5 frames a second is a good default: motion still reads and the file stays small enough to send. Drop to 320 wide or 10 frames a second for something long, and go up to 640 or 720 only for short clips. Giphy won't serve a GIF wider than 480 however big the one you give it, which is a fair guide to what's worth making.
Not here. Your browser decodes the video and encodes the GIF itself, on your device. Nothing is uploaded and nothing is sent anywhere.
No, never. There's no account, no trial and no watermark.
As long as your device can hold, which depends on the size and frame rate you choose rather than on any rule of ours. Every frame is held in memory at once while the palette for the whole animation is worked out, so at 240 pixels wide you can make ten minutes, at 480 about two and a half, and at 720 a little over a minute; a phone is held much tighter. Long before that, though, the file gets too big to post anywhere — a minute at 720 pixels is over 100 MB, where GitHub takes 10 and Discord 20 — so watch the size the page shows rather than the length.
Because those are the rates a GIF can actually hold. The format stores how long each frame lasts in hundredths of a second, as a whole number, so only rates that divide 100 come out right: 10, 12.5, 20 and 25. Ask for 15 and the file ends up playing at 16.7 or 14.3, drifting against the original for the whole clip. Most tools don't mention it.
A GIF holds at most 256 colours, so smooth gradients can band. Dithering sprays neighbouring colours to hide the banding, which costs both size and time: measured here, 10 to 30% more file for about half as long again to make, because it breaks up the repeated runs GIF compression relies on. It's off by default: turn it on for skies, sunsets and slow fades.
MP4, MOV, WebM and MKV, from phones, cameras and screen recorders.
Yes, though a phone has less memory, so the length is capped at 15 seconds there. Open this page in your browser: there's no app to install.
No. GIF has no sound at all, in any tool — that's the format, not a limitation here. If you need the sound, keep it as a video.