Turn any video clip into an animated GIF in your browser.
Browse for a video or drag & drop it here.
MP4, WebM, MOV & more — processed on your device, never uploaded.This tool cuts a segment out of a video file and turns it into an animated GIF, entirely in your browser. Load an MP4, WebM or MOV, drag the two handles on the filmstrip to trim the exact moment you want, and hit Generate GIF. The encoder runs in a background worker on your device, so the page stays responsive and your video is never uploaded anywhere.
Under the hood it works the way professional converters do: a first pass samples frames from your selection and builds an optimized 256-color palette for the whole clip, then each frame is captured and encoded against that palette, with dithering to keep gradients smooth. You control the width, frame rate, playback speed, color count and looping — and there is a boomerang mode that plays your clip forward and then backward for a seamless loop.
A few things people turn video clips into GIFs for:
Load the video into the tool, drag the two handles on the filmstrip to select the segment you want, adjust the width and frame rate if needed, and click Generate GIF. The frames are captured and encoded in your browser, and the finished GIF appears below with a download button. Nothing is uploaded to a server.
No. The video is decoded by your own browser and the GIF is encoded by a script running on your device. Your file never leaves your computer, which also means there is no upload wait and no file size limit.
Whatever your browser can play: MP4 with H.264, WebM with VP8, VP9 or AV1, and Ogg work in every modern browser, and MOV files usually work when they contain H.264 video. If the video will not load, the codec inside the file is the problem — converting it to MP4 with H.264 fixes it almost every time.
The tool caps a single GIF at 900 frames, which is 90 seconds at 10 frames per second. In practice you should stay far below that: GIF is a very inefficient format, and 2 to 6 seconds is the sweet spot for something that loops well and stays under a few megabytes.
GIF is a 35-year-old format that stores every frame as a full compressed image, so it cannot exploit the similarities between frames the way modern video codecs do. To shrink the file: reduce the width, lower the frame rate, pick a shorter segment, or drop the color count to 128 or 64.
A GIF can only use 256 colors, while video has millions. This tool softens the difference by building an optimized palette from your actual clip and applying dithering, which blends neighboring palette colors to fake smooth gradients. Flat graphics usually look identical; subtle photographic gradients may show slight banding.
Yes. Switch off the Loop forever toggle and the GIF plays a single time and then freezes on the last frame. That is useful for step-by-step instructions where endless looping would be distracting.
Boomerang plays your segment forward and then in reverse, so the animation returns to where it started and loops without a visible jump. It works best on short clips with movement, like a zoom or a head turn, and it roughly doubles the frame count.
10 to 15 frames per second is the sweet spot for most GIFs: motion looks fine and the file stays manageable. Going above 20 roughly doubles the size for a smoothness gain most people never notice, and many players cannot display GIF frames faster than 50 per second anyway.