MP4 to GIF Converter

Convert any video to GIF — privately, in your browser

GIFs are the universal language of bug reports, release notes, docs, and social replies — they autoplay everywhere and need no player. This tool lets you convert a video to GIF entirely in your browser: drop an MP4, MOV, or WebM and it becomes a GIF without your footage ever touching a server. It is perfect for dropping animated screen captures into GitHub, Jira, Linear, and Notion, where video embeds are limited but GIFs play inline automatically.

How it works

Your browser already knows how to decode video, so the tool plays your clip frame by frame onto a hidden canvas, captures each frame at your chosen size and frame rate, and encodes them into a GIF locally. No ffmpeg install, no upload, no waiting in a queue.

Keep the file size down

• Shorten the clip — trim to the few seconds that matter.
• Lower the width — 360–480px is plenty for docs and chat.
• Drop the frame rate — 10–12fps reads as smooth for most screen content.

GIF caps colors at 256, so gradients and video can look banded — that is the format, not the tool. For crisp, shareable demos with full color, ScreenBuddy for Mac exports both optimized GIFs and high-quality MP4s directly.