Video to GIF — Turn Any Clip into a GIF, In-Browser
Make a GIF from a video without uploading it: pick how many seconds and how wide, and the GIF is rendered right in your tab.
Video to GIF
First N seconds of the clip, as a smooth GIF
The GIF is built from the start of the video at 12 fps. Two-pass palette generation keeps colours clean — the same technique dedicated GIF tools use.
First run downloads the local engine (~31 MB) once, then your browser caches it for next time. Processing speed depends on your device — short clips are quickest, and longer videos simply take longer. Everything happens in this tab; the network stays empty the whole time.
How to turn a video into a GIF in your browser
- Choose the video — trim it first if the moment you want is not at the start.
- Pick how many seconds the GIF should cover (1–20) and how wide it should be. 240 px is the sweet spot for chat apps; 480 px for a page or slide.
- Run it. The engine does a two-pass job: it builds a colour palette from the clip, then renders the frames against that palette, which is what keeps GIFs from looking muddy.
- Preview the GIF and download it.
GIFs are the universal format for a quick demo, a reaction, or a before-and-after. Making one locally means the clip — which is often a screen recording with sensitive data on it — never needs to be pasted into an external GIF maker.
Why it's private
GIF makers are built for screenshots — but the clips people actually convert are often screen recordings full of client data. Local two-pass palette rendering produces the same clean GIF without the source ever leaving the tab.
Who needs this
Anyone making a demo clip for chat, a before-and-after for a post, or a quick loop for a slide — from footage they would not send to a GIF website.