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    Free Video to GIF

    Free GIFs from short clips without sending footage to a host. Trim the window, encode on your device, download the result.

    • Looks paidActually free
    • No uploadRuns on your device
    • No accountNothing to sign up for
    • No watermarkYour file, untouched

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    Your files never leave your device

    Free to use, with no account, no usage limit and no watermark, because the work runs on your device rather than on our servers.

    This is not a promise about how carefully we handle your upload. There is no upload. The file you choose is read into memory by your own browser, processed there, and handed back as a download — the tool has no server component and makes no network request with your data.

    • Nothing is stored. We never receive the file, so there is no copy to retain, no retention period to disclose, and nothing to delete on request.
    • Nothing is transmitted. No upload endpoint, no analytics payload carrying file contents, no third-party processor.
    • You can verify it. Load this page, disconnect from the internet, and use the tool. It still works, because everything it needs is already on your machine.
    • Nothing persists after you close the tab. Files are held in page memory only — not in local storage, not in a cache, not in a database.

    A note on wording, because it matters: we do not describe these tools as “encrypted.” Encryption protects data that travels to somebody else's computer. Your file does not travel, so there is nothing to encrypt and nothing to intercept — which is a stronger guarantee than encryption, not a weaker one. The page itself is served over HTTPS like the rest of the site.

    This makes the tools safe for material you are contractually barred from uploading to third-party services — client footage under NDA, unreleased campaign assets, anything covered by a confidentiality clause.

    How it works

    1. 1. Drop a short clip

      Keep it brief for a small GIF.

    2. 2. Set frame range and size

      Trim and scale in the browser.

    3. 3. Download the GIF

      No upload, no watermark.

    Questions

    Why is the GIF huge, or grainy?

    GIF is 256 colours and each frame is a full bitmap, so a 10-second 480px clip can be tens of megabytes. Grain is the palette, not JPEG-style artefacts. Short, small, limited-colour sources work; a 1080p take does not belong in this format.

    Why not 60 fps at the original resolution?

    A 1080p 60 fps GIF would lock the tab and produce a file nobody can send. Encoding holds every frame as a bitmap in memory, which is why the tool caps duration, frame count and width up front rather than dying halfway through.

    Does the GIF loop, and does it keep the sound?

    It loops forever, because the encoder sets the GIF loop flag to infinite. GIF has no audio track, so the sound is dropped. Choose 240, 320 or 480 px wide and 4 to 12 fps within the 12 second, 80 frame cap.

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    Everything on this page works on a file you already have, which is why it costs nothing. Generating something that did not exist (video from a prompt, a voice, a score) runs a model, and that costs credits.