Perfect for a bug report, a pull request, or a doc that needs to show rather than tell. Built with a per clip colour palette, so it does not look like a 2009 forum avatar.
or click to choose one. It stays on your device.
GIF is an old format with no real compression for motion, so length is the main driver of file size. Under 10 seconds is the sweet spot.
Your file is being processed on your own device. Keep this tab open.
Any video your browser can play. Screen recordings are the classic use case.
Set a start point and a length. Short is better: GIF file size scales almost linearly with the number of frames.
Lower the frame rate or the width if the file comes out too heavy. You see the finished GIF and its size before downloading.
GIF stores frames as individual palettised images with only basic between frame optimisation, so a few seconds of video can outweigh the MP4 it came from. Three levers control it, in order of impact: length, then width, then frame rate. A 5 second, 480 px, 15 fps GIF is usually a couple of megabytes. If size really matters, an MP4 is a tenth the size and every platform plays it inline now.
GIF allows only 256 colours per frame, so the palette choice is everything. Naive converters use a fixed generic palette, which is what produces that muddy banded look. This tool generates a palette from your specific clip and then dithers against it, which is why gradients and screen text hold up.
No. The video encoder is compiled to WebAssembly and runs inside this browser tab, so your file is read from your disk, processed by your CPU, and saved back to your downloads folder. There is no upload endpoint. You can confirm it by opening your browser devtools network tab, or by disconnecting from the internet once the page has loaded.
Yes, forever, which is the GIF default and what every chat app and issue tracker expects.
The tool holds your file in browser memory, so it is capped at 600 MB. That covers most screen recordings and phone clips. For anything larger, trim it down first or use a desktop encoder.
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