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GIF to SVG converter

Convert GIF to SVG in your browser. No upload and no account: the file never leaves your device, so the only size limit is your device’s memory.

I want SVG
90%
Icon sizes
How to make the SVG

Tracing suits logos, icons and flat artwork and scales cleanly. Photos are better kept as pixels inside the SVG.

16
50%
Dither Scatters black dots to suggest gray, instead of a hard cut-off.
Advanced 5
Keep the animation For animated GIF, WebP and APNG sources. Turn off to save just the first frame.
Rotate
Mirror horizontally
Mirror vertically

For an exact width and height, use the Resize Image tool instead.

Bytes of your files sent anywhere: 0 B

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Read more about the GIF format and the SVG format, or see every image tool and all image conversions.

Should you convert GIF to SVG?

Only if something specifically needs an SVG. For logos, icons and flat artwork, tracing the GIF into shapes gives a file that stays sharp at any size. For photographs, SVG gains nothing: the result either looks like a poster or simply wraps the same pixels.

Bear in mind SVG is opens almost everywhere: it works in browsers and design tools, but not social networks, chat apps, Office or most forms.

GIF is a 256-color image format best known for short looping animations; SVG is a vector format made of shapes instead of pixels. Use SVG for logos, icons and illustrations on websites, where the same file has to look sharp on every screen.

GIF and SVG compared
Property GIF SVG
Compression Lossless Vector (shapes, not pixels)
Transparency Yes Yes
Animation Yes Yes
Support Opens everywhere Opens almost everywhere
Best for Short, silent loops and reaction images Logos, icons and illustrations that must stay sharp at any size
Introduced 1987 2001

How to convert GIF to SVG

  1. 01

    Add your GIF

    Drop your GIF image onto the box, or click to choose it. It is read from your disk and stays there.

  2. 02

    Check the settings

    The output is already set to SVG. Change the quality if you want to; the defaults suit most files.

  3. 03

    Save the SVG

    Press convert and save the SVG. Several files come back together as a ZIP.

What changes when GIF becomes SVG

Transparency is kept

GIF and SVG both support transparency, so transparent backgrounds and soft edges come through unchanged.

Animated files keep their first frame

SVG can animate, but this converter writes animated SVG only for GIF and APNG targets. An animated GIF is saved as a still of its first frame.

Tracing or keeping the pixels

“Trace into shapes” reduces the picture to a set number of colors and outlines each area as a vector path, ideal for logos and icons. “Keep the exact pixels” wraps the GIF image inside the SVG, which is larger than the original but looks identical.

Expect a much smaller file

GIF: A five-second animation can easily pass 10 MB. SVG: A simple logo is often only a few KB. Shrinking the file is often the main reason to make this conversion.

This page is put together from our notes on each format, choosing only what is true of GIF and SVG, so every pairing states the same facts the same way. How these pages are made.

Why it doesn’t upload

Changing a picture’s format is work your browser already knows how to do. Sending your photos to a server first only adds waiting and risk, so nothing is sent.

How to check for yourself

Worth knowing

  • About the GIF. A few seconds of video as GIF is often ten times the size of the same clip as MP4, because GIF compresses each frame as a separate picture.
  • About the SVG. Converting a photograph to SVG does not turn it into vectors. Either the pixels get wrapped inside an SVG, which is bigger and no sharper, or a tracer turns it into flat blobs of color.
  • DDS, PSD, EXR, XWD and JPEG 2000 are read by the FFmpeg engine, a one-time 31 MB download.

Questions

Will converting GIF to SVG lose quality?

No. GIF and SVG are both lossless, so every pixel is kept.

Will the SVG be smaller than the GIF?

Expect a much smaller file. GIF: A five-second animation can easily pass 10 MB. SVG: A simple logo is often only a few KB. Shrinking the file is often the main reason to make this conversion.

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