GIF to MP4 converter

Drop the GIF onto the box above and press convert. The converter downloads once, runs on your own device, and hands back an MP4 you can download. There is no account and nothing to install.

Yes, with no account, no watermark and no limit on how many files you convert. Because the work happens on your device rather than on a server, there is nothing for us to meter.

Barely, and MP4 usually looks better. A GIF is limited to 256 colours, so gradients band badly; MP4 has no such limit. What you can lose is sharpness on very fine detail, because video compression is designed for photographic content.

Usually a third to a tenth of the GIF, sometimes much less. GIF stores every frame with almost no compression between frames, while MP4 only stores what changed. The longer the animation, the bigger the saving.

No. The converter is a WebAssembly build of ffmpeg that runs inside your browser tab, so the GIF is read from your disk and the MP4 is written back without either touching a network. You can watch this in your browser's network tab.

WhatsApp does not play .gif files. What looks like a GIF on WhatsApp is a short, looping, silent MP4. So to use an animated GIF in a message or a marketing template with a GIF header, it has to be converted first.

Meta's WhatsApp Business Platform caps GIF media at 3.5 MB. A larger file still sends, but it arrives as a regular video message with a play button instead of an auto-looping GIF. This tool shows you which side of the line your file is on.

MP4 has no transparency, so anything transparent becomes solid, usually black. If your GIF relies on a transparent background, put the background colour you want into the GIF before converting.

No. GIFs have no audio track, so neither does the result. That is what platforms expect from a GIF-style MP4 anyway, and it is why WhatsApp loops them silently.

Yes, though the memory limit bites sooner. iOS Safari is the tightest environment, so a GIF near 25 MB may fail on a phone that would convert fine on a laptop. Try a smaller file if it does.

Not yet. One file at a time, because each conversion needs the browser's full memory budget. Convert them one after another; the converter only downloads once per visit, so the ones after the first are much faster.

Not with this tool. It only goes one way. Going back to GIF means losing colours and multiplying the file size, which is almost never what you want.