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GIF to WEBP converter

Convert GIF to WEBP 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 WEBP
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 WEBP format, or see every image tool and all image conversions.

Should you convert GIF to WEBP?

A safe conversion when WEBP is what you need: both GIF and WEBP keep every pixel, so the picture itself doesn’t change.

Bear in mind WEBP is opens in current browsers and apps: it works in every current browser, but plenty of desktop apps, print shops and upload forms still refuse it.

GIF is a 256-color image format best known for short looping animations; WEBP is a web image format that can be lossy or lossless, with transparency and animation. Use WEBP for pictures on your own website or app, where every kilobyte affects load time.

GIF and WEBP compared
Property GIF WEBP
Compression Lossless Lossy or lossless
Transparency Yes Yes
Animation Yes Yes
Support Opens everywhere Opens in current browsers and apps
Best for Short, silent loops and reaction images Images on websites, where smaller files load faster
Introduced 1987 2010

How to convert GIF to WEBP

  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 WEBP. Change the quality if you want to; the defaults suit most files.

  3. 03

    Save the WEBP

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

What changes when GIF becomes WEBP

Transparency is kept

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

Animated files keep their first frame

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

Expect a much smaller file

GIF: A five-second animation can easily pass 10 MB. WEBP: Typically 25–35% smaller than the same JPG. 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 WEBP, 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 WEBP. Images saved from websites arrive as WEBP even when the page looked like it showed a JPG, and then a document editor or upload form refuses them.
  • DDS, PSD, EXR, XWD and JPEG 2000 are read by the FFmpeg engine, a one-time 31 MB download.

Questions

Will converting GIF to WEBP lose quality?

WEBP is lossy, so some detail is discarded. The quality slider decides how much; the default of 90 is chosen so the difference is invisible in almost every photo.

Will the WEBP be smaller than the GIF?

Expect a much smaller file. GIF: A five-second animation can easily pass 10 MB. WEBP: Typically 25–35% smaller than the same JPG. Shrinking the file is often the main reason to make this conversion.

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