Turn ANI cursors into GIF. It is converted in your browser, so the file never leaves your device.
Drop ANI files here
or choose from your computer paste with Ctrl V
from Photos or Files
Ready · other file types work too0 bytes uploaded, ever
Drop ANI files onto the box above, or click it to choose them. ToAny reads the file's contents to detect the type, so a wrong extension does not matter.
Press Convert. Open Options first if you want to change the defaults. The work happens in this tab.
Save the GIF, or download everything as one ZIP if you converted several files.
The ANI to GIF converter is part of this page and runs inside your browser. Your cursors are never sent to ToAny or to anyone else.
Nothing has to travel to a server and back, so the conversion starts the moment you press Convert, even on a slow connection.
No sign-up, no email address and no watermark. Add several files and download them together as a ZIP.
ANI is a Windows-only pointer format that other apps do not open. GIF plays and loops automatically in every browser, chat app and email client. ANI is at home in animated mouse pointers on Windows; GIF is the usual choice for short looping clips and reactions.
The defaults suit most files. Under Options you can resize the result.
An animated cursor is converted from its first frame only.
ANI is a RIFF container holding a sequence of cursor frames with a timing for each, which Windows plays as an animated mouse pointer such as the spinning busy circle. Most image viewers cannot open it.
Opens in Windows, cursor editors and some image tools; not browsers
ANI converterGIF is a 1987 format that survives because it loops silently everywhere. Each frame can use at most 256 colours, so photos and video look grainy and files are far larger than an equivalent MP4.
Opens in Every browser, phone and messaging app
GIF converter| ANIAnimated cursor | GIFGIF image | |
|---|---|---|
| Stands for | Windows Animated Cursor | Graphics Interchange Format |
| Type | Raster image (animated cursor) | Raster image, often animated |
| Compression | Usually none | Lossless, but limited to 256 colours per frame |
| Transparency | Yes | On or off only (no soft edges) |
| Animation | Yes | Yes |
| Introduced | The mid-1990s, by Microsoft | 1987, by CompuServe |
| Opens in | Windows, cursor editors and some image tools; not browsers | Every browser, phone and messaging app |
| Best for | Animated mouse pointers on Windows | Short looping clips and reactions |
| File extension | .ani | .gif |
No. The ANI to GIF conversion runs inside your browser, on your own phone or computer. The file is not sent to ToAny or to anyone else.
Yes, for photos: GIF holds at most 256 colours, so the picture is reduced to a 256-colour palette and smooth gradients can show bands. Graphics that already use few colours come through unchanged.
Yes. Add as many as you like, convert them together and download each result or all of them as one ZIP.
The steps are the same everywhere because ToAny runs in the web browser: open this page in a current version of Chrome, Edge, Safari or Firefox, add the ANI file, press Convert and save the GIF. There is nothing to install.
Pictures of up to 120 megapixels are accepted (for example 12,000 by 10,000 pixels); a larger one is refused with a message. Beyond that the limit is your device's memory, since nothing is uploaded; a computer copes with large files better than a phone.