Video to GIF, WebP and frame grabber.

How to use it

1. Drop in a video. Use the player to find the moment you want.
2. For a GIF, set the start and length (up to 10 seconds), the width and the frame rate, then press Make GIF. Press Make animated WebP instead to get a WebP and a GIF of the same clip and compare their sizes.
3. For a still, scrub to the frame and press Save frame as PNG. It is saved at the video's full resolution.
4. Download the result. Nothing is added to it: no watermark, no logo.

Getting a small, clean GIF

GIF is an old format: it stores every frame as a picture with at most 256 colours, so file size grows fast. Three settings control it. Width has the biggest effect, and 480 pixels is plenty for an email, a landing page or a chat message. Frame rate comes next: 10 frames per second looks smooth enough for most product demos, while 15 suits fast movement. Length is the last: a three to five second loop is far more useful than a ten second one.

Pick a moment that loops naturally, such as a product turning, a texture swatch or a before and after wipe. For longer clips, a short MP4 almost always beats a GIF on size and quality, and most platforms autoplay it the same way.

GIF or animated WebP

An animated WebP is the same idea as a GIF, a short silent looping clip, but it uses a modern codec and is usually much smaller for the same picture, with more than 256 colours per frame. The tool builds both from the same frames and shows the real file sizes, so you can see the saving on your own clip rather than take our word for it. The WebP encoder is the open-source libwebp library compiled to WebAssembly and served from our own site; it downloads the first time you press the WebP button and runs on your device.

Current Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari display animated WebP, but some email clients, chat apps and older tools still expect GIF. Use WebP for your own site and GIF where you cannot be sure.

Thumbnails and still frames

The frame grabber is a quick way to pull a poster image, a thumbnail for a landing page or a still for a comparison chart. Because it reads the decoded frame straight from your video, there is no extra compression. If your video has an on-screen caption at that moment, it is part of the frame, so pick a clean moment before you save.

Beauty and wellness advertisers often use a still of the product held to camera as the cover image for the ad, which gives you a consistent preview across placements.

Privacy

Your files never leave your device. This tool runs entirely in your browser: nothing is uploaded, stored or sent to a server. The page loads its code once and does the work on your device. There is no upload, no account and no watermark, and nothing you add is stored on our servers.