GIF

GIF Cropper — Crop Without Breaking the Loop

Crop an animated GIF by exact pixel coordinates with a live preview. Apply the same crop to every frame, keep the timing intact, or batch-crop GIFs with Premium.

Drop a GIF — set the crop in pixels, keep the motion

GIF only · Free up to 30 MB, Premium 50 MB

Crop an animated GIF online by exact pixels without breaking the loop

This GIF cropper trims an animated GIF to the region you set and applies the same cut to every frame. A GIF crop here takes four numbers, Left, Top, Width and Height in pixels; play the cropped loop in the preview, then download the result. The loop setting and frame timing carry over from the original, so the animation plays as before, only framed tighter. It runs in a desktop or phone browser with nothing to install.

Crop GIF online by exact pixel coordinates

Once the GIF loads, the Crop panel lists its original size and starts you with a centered region covering 80 percent of each side. Left and Top place the region from the top-left corner of the frame, and Width and Height set its size. The region has to stay inside the original frame, and the page shows a warning when it does not. Free results are kept at web size, so a longer side above that is scaled down to fit.

  1. Drop a GIF file into the upload area.
  2. Read the original size shown in the Crop panel.
  3. Set Left and Top, then Width, then Height, in pixels.
  4. Select Crop GIF and watch the cropped loop play in the preview.
  5. Select See result, then download the new GIF.

Cut borders, black bars or empty space from a GIF

To remove a strip along an edge, move Left or Top inward by the strip size and take the same amount off Width or Height. On a 640 by 360 GIF with a 40 pixel bar on the left, set Left to 40 and Width to 600. Fewer pixels in every frame usually means a smaller file too, and you can compress the GIF further if it is still heavy.

Crop a GIF to a square or a set aspect ratio

There are no aspect-ratio presets, so the numbers do the work. For a square, give Width and Height the same value and place it with Left and Top. For a 16 by 9 frame, a Width of 640 pairs with a Height of 360. Reset to full frame puts the region back on the whole picture so you can start again. To change the size afterward without cutting anything, scale the cropped GIF to another size.

Crop several GIFs with the same region

Batch mode applies one crop to many GIFs. Switch from Single GIF to Batch, add your files and set the crop values once. The region is stored as a proportion of the frame, so it lands in the same relative place on GIFs of different sizes, and the results come back as one ZIP. Batch is a Premium feature, while a single GIF can be cropped without it.

Before you crop

  • Only GIF files are accepted here; for a still photo, crop it with aspect-ratio presets instead.
  • Crop first and then resize or compress, so those steps work on fewer pixels.
  • Play the cropped preview through once to confirm nothing important is cut off on any frame.
  • Keep the original GIF, because each crop creates a new file and the first one stays as it was.

With the frame trimmed, shrink the file while the loop and timing stay intact or set the exact width a platform asks for. For a still photo, crop with aspect-ratio presets instead.

What you can do with GIF Cropper

Review the main capabilities before you begin.

  • Crop animated GIFs to any region you choose
  • Apply the same cut across every frame
  • Preview the cropped loop before downloading
  • Keep the animation, loop and timing intact
  • Trim away unwanted edges from a GIF
  • Set an exact crop area in pixels

Settings reference

Available controls for GIF Cropper.

Processing modePresets
Process one input, or switch to Premium batch mode to process multiple inputs with shared settings. Available input types depend on the tool.Options: Single GIFBatch

Crop

Left (px)Number input
Horizontal starting point of the crop, measured in pixels from the GIF's left edge; it can go up to one pixel less than the GIF's width, and increasing it trims more off the left side.
Top (px)Number input
Vertical starting point of the crop, measured in pixels from the GIF's top edge; it can go up to one pixel less than the GIF's height, and increasing it trims more off the top.
Width (px)Number input
Width of the kept region in pixels, capped at the GIF's own width; together with Left it must stay inside the original frame, and the same cut is applied to every frame of the animation.
Height (px)Number input
Height of the kept region in pixels, capped at the GIF's own height; together with Top it must stay inside the original frame, and the live preview refreshes shortly after you change a value.
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Frequently Asked Questions

How GIF Cropper helps you get it done

Real problems it solves every day — for businesses, creators, and everyday tasks. Find the use case that fits you and start.

Productivity

Remove borders and letterboxing

Screen recordings and re-shared GIFs often carry black bars or window chrome. Crop them away so the animation fills its frame — and the file gets smaller too.

Social Media

Focus on the action

Cut a GIF down to just the part that matters — a button click in a product demo, a face in a reaction clip — so viewers aren't distracted by the rest of the frame.

Web & SEO

Make square crops for avatars and thumbnails

Set an equal width and height to pull a square region out of a widescreen GIF, ready for profile pictures, thumbnails and grid layouts.

For Business

Clean up tutorial and demo captures

Crop screen-capture GIFs to the relevant window or panel before dropping them into docs, README files or support articles.

Watch each transformation land

Every photo crosses the slash untouched and comes out the other side finished.