Compress a GIF

Shrink an animated GIF so it fits an upload limit. Trims the palette first, then the size, then frames, and keeps it animated.

No uploads, stays on your deviceFree foreverNo watermarksAI-powered

Drop a GIF or click to upload

Supports GIF

or paste with Ctrl+V

🔒 Your image never leaves your device

Working with lots of GIFs?

Drop a folder of GIFs and get them all back converted, resized or sharpened in one go, instead of doing them one at a time.

How to Compress a GIF

1

Upload the GIF you want to shrink.

2

The tool reads every frame and works out how far it needs to go.

3

It trims the palette first, then the dimensions, then frames if it still has to.

4

Compare the new file size against the original.

5

Download the smaller GIF, still animated.

What People Use This For

Discord uploads - get a meme GIF under the 10MB free-account limit

Email - keep an attached GIF small enough that it does not bounce

Web pages - cut the weight of a GIF that is slowing a page down

Slack and Teams - make a reaction GIF preview quickly instead of hanging

Forums and wikis - meet an attachment cap without losing the animation

Phone storage - shrink a folder of saved GIFs

Getting a Smaller GIF

1

Flat colours and simple shapes compress much further than film footage

2

Cropping to the part that matters saves more than any palette change

3

A shorter clip beats a heavily compressed long one almost every time

4

If the result still looks good, run it again to go further

5

Screen recordings shrink especially well because so much of the frame never changes

Why This One Works on GIFs

Palette First

Takes the least visible saving before touching size or frames, so quality goes last.

Stops At Your Target

Compresses only as far as it has to, rather than flattening every GIF to the same setting.

Nothing Gets Uploaded

The whole thing runs on your device. A 40MB GIF never leaves your machine.

Free and Unlimited

No account, no size cap on what you put in, and no watermark on what comes out.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Everything you need to know

A GIF has three levers and this tool pulls them in order. First the palette, from 256 colours down, which is the biggest saving and the least visible. Then the dimensions. Then the frame count, dropping frames and stretching the remaining delays so the clip still runs for its original length. It stops as soon as the file is under target.