Turn GIF GIFs into CUR. It is converted in your browser, so the file never leaves your device.
Drop GIF files here
or choose from your computer paste with Ctrl V
from Photos or Files
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Drop GIF 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 CUR, or download everything as one ZIP if you converted several files.
The GIF to CUR converter is part of this page and runs inside your browser. Your GIFs 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.
GIF is limited to 256 colours and produces very large files for anything longer than a few seconds. CUR is what Windows needs for a custom mouse pointer. GIF is at home in short looping clips and reactions; CUR is the usual choice for mouse pointers on Windows.
CUR holds a single still image, so an animated GIF does not stay animated. The defaults suit most files. Under Options you can pick which icon sizes go into the file.
If the GIF is animated, only its first frame is converted and the result is a still picture. The picture is fitted into squares of the sizes you pick, 32, 48 and 64 pixels by default; the hotspot, the pixel that points, is the top-left corner, where an arrow's tip sits.
GIF 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 converterCUR is structured like an ICO icon file with one addition: each image carries a hotspot, the pixel that actually does the pointing. Windows uses it for custom mouse pointers. Cursors are small, typically 32 by 32 pixels.
Opens in Windows, icon and cursor editors, GIMP and IrfanView; not browsers' image viewers
CUR converter| GIFGIF image | CURWindows cursor | |
|---|---|---|
| Stands for | Graphics Interchange Format | Windows Cursor |
| Type | Raster image, often animated | Raster image (cursor) |
| Compression | Lossless, but limited to 256 colours per frame | Usually none |
| Transparency | On or off only (no soft edges) | Yes |
| Animation | Yes | No |
| Introduced | 1987, by CompuServe | The early 1990s, by Microsoft |
| Opens in | Every browser, phone and messaging app | Windows, icon and cursor editors, GIMP and IrfanView; not browsers' image viewers |
| Best for | Short looping clips and reactions | Mouse pointers on Windows |
| File extension | .gif | .cur |
No. The GIF to CUR conversion runs inside your browser, on your own phone or computer. The file is not sent to ToAny or to anyone else.
No further quality is lost: CUR stores the decoded pixels exactly. The result is identical in content.
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 GIF file, press Convert and save the CUR. 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.