GIF Maker — Make an Animated GIF from Images or Video

Drop two or more images in the order you want them to animate, adjust frame delay, output width and quality, then press Make my GIF. Frames are uploaded over HTTPS and encoded into a GIF on our secure server (removed under our Security policy), and the result downloads as animation.gif — ready to drop into Slack, Discord, GitHub, or anywhere else GIFs are welcome.

For natural-looking motion, 100-150ms per frame gives ~7-10 frames per second — like classic animation. 50-80ms feels modern and snappy. 300-500ms creates a deliberate "slideshow" pace that's good for before/after comparisons or product reveals. Match the delay to your content type.

For chat platforms and social media, 480-720px wide is a good sweet spot — sharp on phones, fast to upload. For embedded blog GIFs, 640-800px is standard. Going above 1280px makes the file huge with little visual benefit since GIF maxes at 256 colors.

GIF supports only 256 colors per frame. Photo-heavy content (skin tones, gradients, sunsets) is the hardest case. Lower the Quality slider value (smaller number = better color quantisation, but slower encode) and the dithering will improve. Or switch to MP4/WebM for true-color motion.

Yes — each frame is letterboxed onto a uniform canvas (matching the first frame's aspect ratio) with a white background, so mixing portrait and landscape frames won't break the animation. For consistent results, resize your source images to the same dimensions first using our Resize Image tool.

Yes — the "Loop forever" toggle is on by default. Disable it for a single-play GIF (sometimes preferred for live event captures and instructional content where you want viewers to stop on the final frame).

Your frames are uploaded over HTTPS, retained temporarily to encode and deliver the GIF, then removed under our Security policy. We never sell them or use them to train models. For content under a strict no-upload data-residency rule, a fully offline desktop GIF encoder is the safer choice.

Preview and download the clean standard GIF without creating an account.

Yes. Choose Turn a video clip into GIF, upload an MP4, WebM, MOV or M4V file your browser can decode, set Start, End and Sampling rate, and prepare up to 50 frames. Review the sequence, then set GIF timing, width, quality and looping before encoding.

Drop JPG, PNG or WebP images, including transparent PNGs. Frames of different sizes are letterboxed onto one canvas so mixed portrait and landscape shots still animate cleanly. The prepared frames are sent over HTTPS to the GIF encoder only after you choose Make my GIF.

In image mode, drag any frame thumbnail by its grip handle or use the compact left/right arrow buttons with a mouse, touch or keyboard. Reordering clears an older result; choose Make my GIF when the sequence and settings are ready so the tool never spends a conversion on an accidental move.

Yes — Add frames appends more images to the sequence and you can drag them into position. Adding or rearranging frames clears the previous result, but does not encode again until you choose Make my GIF.

For a clear product walkthrough, use a longer delay around 400-600ms so viewers have time to read each step, a width of 640-800px for crisp detail on blog and documentation pages, and a Quality value around 5-10 for cleaner color reproduction on product photography. Lower quality numbers trade a slightly longer encode time for noticeably less color banding on gradients and skin tones.

Click the trash icon on a frame to remove only that image. The previous result is cleared and the remaining sequence stays in place; add another image if fewer than two remain, then choose Make my GIF when ready.

Choose Turn a video clip into GIF, upload an MP4, WebM, MOV or M4V file your browser can decode, then set Start, End and Sampling rate. Prepare frames first to review the sampled sequence; anonymous sessions are capped at 10 frames and signed-in sessions at 50, then the regular delay, width, quality and loop controls apply before you build the GIF.

Choose image mode to upload and reorder pictures, or video mode to trim a browser-supported clip and prepare up to 10 frames before signup or 50 after signup. Keep the width around 480 px, leave Loop forever on, then build and download the GIF. For an animated server emote, start from square visuals so the letterboxed frames stay square.

Almost always one of three things. The file is over the 20 MB free upload limit — Premium takes 50 MB and Pro 120 MB. The format is not one this tool accepts, so check the list shown on the upload panel. Or the file is not really the format its name says: renaming a file does not change what is inside it, and that is the reason a valid-looking image gets refused.

Yes — the default look is deliberately obvious so you can see what the tool does, and most photos read better well below it. If the page has a strength or intensity slider, bring it down until the effect looks like a decision rather than a filter; if it has only style choices or an instruction box, pick a milder style or ask for a subtler look and generate again. Compare against your original before you download.

GIF Maker supports free standard use within the published processing allowances. Free downloads are clean — no watermark. No signup is required for standard tool use. Photo effects and AI edits have a web-size limit on Free, with the original-resolution result available through Premium or one credit. Crop, resize, rotate, compress and convert stay full size. Published processing allowances and file limits still apply.

No — GIF Maker runs in the browser on desktop and phone. There is nothing to install, no trial to start, and no license to buy before you can see whether it does what you need. Try it on the file you are actually stuck with rather than a sample.

This tool builds a GIF from up to 50 frames once you are signed in, and up to 10 before signup. The page tells you when a selection goes over the limit. For a longer sequence, build more than one GIF, or shorten the clip or the set of pictures.

One Frame delay applies to every frame in the GIF. To make a picture stay on screen longer, add it again so it appears twice in the sequence, then build the GIF.

The page reads the video with your browser, so a file the browser cannot play cannot be sampled. MP4 and WebM are usually the most reliable; save the clip again in one of those formats and drop it in.

This tool has no text option, so add the words to each picture first with the Add Text to Image tool, then drop those files in as frames. The caption is then part of every frame.

Yes. Each frame is another picture stored in the file, so fewer frames and a narrower Width both make the GIF lighter. If it is still too heavy, the GIF compressor reduces colors and scale afterward.