How to convert a GIF to animated WebP
- Drop your GIF file on the box above, or click it to choose the file — or press Load a sample to try it first.
- Check the settings below the box; the defaults suit most files.
- Press Convert. Long jobs show a progress bar and can be cancelled; you then see what was made and its real size.
- Download the .webp file.
What is kept when you convert a GIF to animated WebP
- Every frame is encoded by your browser’s WebP encoder and packed into an animated WebP with the same frame timing and loop count.
- Frames are full-colour; transparency is kept.
- Writing WebP needs Chrome, Edge or Firefox; on browsers that cannot encode WebP the tool says so instead of saving a different format under a .webp name.
About GIF and WebP files
A GIF holds one or more frames, each with up to 256 colours, a display time in hundredths of a second, and a rule for what happens to it when the next frame appears. It plays everywhere, which is why it survives. It opens in every browser, chat app and image viewer.
Animated WebP stores full-colour frames with transparency and usually takes a fraction of the GIF’s size. Each frame keeps its own display time. It opens in every current browser, Telegram and WhatsApp stickers.
Good to know
- Browsers play frame delays of 0 or 10 ms as 100 ms, so 20 ms (50 frames per second) is the fastest a GIF really plays.
- Keep the GIF as well if you also post to older apps that only show the first frame of a WebP.
Privacy and limits
The file is read and converted by this page in your browser; there is no upload and no account. Frame count, size and memory are checked from the file’s structure before any frame is decoded, so a hostile GIF cannot exhaust the tab. A GIF may have up to 500 frames and 2,048 pixels on each side. Files up to 50 MB are accepted; a file of the wrong type or a damaged file is rejected with the reason.