Animated GIF Maker

What it's for

Turn a set of still images into one animated GIF, the looping picture format that works almost everywhere: chat apps, email, documentation and web pages.

For example, when you want to show the steps of a process from a few screenshots, or turn a burst of photos into a short clip.

How to use it

Choose your images, or drop them on the page. You can pick several at once and add more later, including an animated GIF, which adds all its frames so you can retime, reorder, trim or resize it. Each appears in the list with a thumbnail: the arrows move it earlier or later, the cross removes it, and the box beside it sets how long that frame shows, in milliseconds. Leave a frame’s box blank to use the Default delay.

Loop plays the animation forever, once, or a set number of times. Width and Height work as in Image Convert / Resize. Images with different proportions are fitted inside the first image’s shape and centred, with any gap left transparent. The GIF is remade after every change and shown below with its size and running time; Download saves it. The default delay and loop settings are remembered.

Example

Take three screenshots of the same window. Choose them all, then set Default delay to

800

and set the last frame’s own delay to 2000. With Loop on Forever, the GIF shows each step for under a second and pauses on the result for two before starting again. The message under the settings shows 3 frames and 3.6 s a play.

Good to know

A GIF has at most 256 colours per frame, so photos look grainier than the originals, while screenshots and drawings stay crisp. Pixels can be fully transparent or fully solid, nothing in between. Delays are stored in hundredths of a second, and browsers treat very short ones as slow, so the shortest delay is 20 milliseconds. An animated GIF you add becomes one entry per frame, keeping its delays; animated WebP and PNG files add only their first frame. Large or many frames make large files and take a moment to build. Everything happens in your browser.