Video to GIF

Video is great for watching, but GIFs are how moments actually travel across the internet. They autoplay silently in chats, embed in tweets and blog posts, attach to email, work inside design tools, and need zero player UI to do their job. Anytime you want to share a quick reaction, a product demo loop, a tutorial step, or a highlight from a longer clip, GIF is still the universal answer.

This tool converts MP4, WebM, MOV, and most other browser-playable video formats into animated GIFs. You pick the clip start, the duration (up to 15 seconds), the frame rate, and the maximum width. We then decode the video frame-by-frame using the browser's native video engine, quantise the colours to a 256-colour palette, and encode the GIF using gifenc — a fast modern encoder that produces noticeably smaller files than the old gif.js generation of tools.

Three settings drive almost everything about the output. **Frame rate** controls smoothness — 8–12 fps feels animated, 16–24 fps starts to feel like video but doubles or triples the file size. **Max width** is the biggest lever on file size; a 480-pixel-wide GIF is usually small enough to send anywhere, while a 720-pixel-wide GIF can easily run into tens of megabytes. **Start time and duration** let you trim before encoding so you only pay for the seconds you actually want.

Best of all, everything happens **on your device**. Your video file is read in the browser, decoded in the browser, encoded in the browser, and never sent to a server. That keeps your footage private and means even large clips don't have to be uploaded.