Step 1: Share your WebM files using the button above or by drag and drop.
Step 2: Click the 'Transform' button to start the transformation.
Step 3: Grab your converted GIF files.
WebM to GIF Transformation FAQ
What file size should I expect from a 5-second WebM → GIF?
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Animated GIF: 2 to 8 MB at 480p depending on motion complexity. Animated WebP: 200 KB to 1 MB at the same resolution / quality. Animated WebP is 5 to 10x more efficient than GIF for the same visual quality. GIF is lossless but capped at a 256-colour palette per frame, using LZW compression and single-colour binary transparency.
Does the codec inside the WebM change the GIF I get?
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Not the picture, only the wait. A WebM is a Matroska-family container, and that family keeps the container and the codec completely separate — what the file actually holds was decided when it was written and is not implied by the extension. The converter decodes whatever it finds back to raw frames first, and those frames are identical whichever codec produced them. Decode cost is not identical: the newer, more efficient codecs take several times longer to unpack than the older ones, so two WebM files of the same length can take noticeably different times to reach the same GIF. WebM is deliberately narrow: VP8 or VP9 video (AV1 more recently) with Vorbis or Opus audio, and nothing else.
The WebM came from a web page — can that be turned into a GIF?
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Yes, once you have the file itself. A WebM is what the web uses for inline video precisely because browsers play it with no plugin, so the clip playing in a tab is usually a plain WebM that saves and uploads here like any other file. The exception is a streaming player that hands out short numbered segments rather than one file — those have to be reassembled before anything can be converted. Rights are the other thing worth checking: being able to download a video is not the same as being allowed to republish an animation made from it. WebM plays natively in every modern browser with no plugin, no licence fee and no patent exposure, which makes it the default for web-embedded video.
Can someone viewing the GIF pause it or skip through it?
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No — a GIF is an image file, so it starts the moment it is decoded and carries no play, pause or scrub control anywhere. That is a property of the format rather than of the page it sits on, and it is why the first frame matters more here than it would in a video: readers who have asked for reduced motion, and mail clients that render one frame only, see that frame and nothing else. Pick a start point whose opening frame reads sensibly on its own.
Will the GIF animation play audio from the WebM?
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No — animated GIF formats (GIF, WebP, APNG) do not store audio. If you need sound, target a video container (MP4, WebM) instead of an animated image format.
Can I make the GIF animation loop forever?
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Yes. The Loop setting makes the GIF repeat forever (the default) or play once and stop. There is no setting for a specific number of repeats. The loop flag is stored in the file, and most viewers respect it.
Why does my GIF look choppy compared to the WebM source?
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Two common causes. A lower frame rate drops frames: 15 fps from a 60 fps WebM keeps only one frame in four, so pick a higher value in the Frame Rate setting. And GIF is limited to 256 colours, so gradients dither visibly; animated WebP keeps full colour.
Can I crop or resize the WebM before making the GIF?
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Yes — the resize option scales the WebM down before frame extraction, which dramatically shrinks GIF file size. A 480p GIF from a 4K WebM is roughly 16x smaller than a 4K GIF. Use /video-cutter/ for cropping in a separate step.
Is my WebM video private during GIF animation creation?
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Yes. Uploaded WebM files are processed on our own conversion servers, no person reviews them, and they are never shared. The upload and the converted GIF are both deleted automatically about 24 hours after the conversion, which leaves time to download the result. See /privacy/ for the full policy.
