Turn an animated GIF into an animated WebP. 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 and can take a while for large files.
Save the WebP, or download everything as one ZIP if you converted several files.
The GIF to WebP 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 work starts the moment you press Convert. How long it takes depends on your device and the size of the file.
No sign-up, no email address and no watermark. Add several files and download them together as a ZIP.
WebP animations keep more colour than the 256 a GIF is limited to and are typically much smaller than the same GIF, so pages that use them load faster. Current browsers show them; some older editors, email clients and chat apps still need a GIF.
The defaults suit most files. Under Options you can set the frame rate, set the width, trim the start and end and set the quality. This is demanding work for a browser: a long or high-resolution file can take several minutes, and your device does all of it, so keep the tab open.
This pair uses the compatibility engine, ffmpeg built for the browser, because GIF is not handled by the browser's built-in codecs. It is a one-off download of about 10 MB that the browser keeps, it is slower than the built-in codecs, and it takes files up to 1 GB. The result is a looping animation of at most 30 seconds, counted from the start point you set under Options. The GIF's own frame timing is kept unless you choose a frame rate, and the picture is scaled down to 480 pixels wide at most, never enlarged. Unlike a GIF it keeps full colour, and it has no sound.
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 converterWebP is Google's image format for the web. It is typically a quarter to a third smaller than JPG or PNG at similar quality and supports both transparency and animation. Browsers handle it well; older editors, printers' portals and some messaging apps do not.
Opens in All current browsers; many older desktop apps and upload forms do not accept it
WebP converter| GIFGIF image | WEBPWebP image | |
|---|---|---|
| Stands for | Graphics Interchange Format | WebP |
| Type | Raster image, often animated | Raster image |
| Compression | Lossless, but limited to 256 colours per frame | Lossy or lossless |
| Transparency | On or off only (no soft edges) | Yes |
| Animation | Yes | Yes |
| Introduced | 1987, by CompuServe | 2010, by Google |
| Opens in | Every browser, phone and messaging app | All current browsers; many older desktop apps and upload forms do not accept it |
| Best for | Short looping clips and reactions | Images on websites |
| File extension | .gif | .webp |
No. The GIF to WebP conversion runs inside your browser, on your own phone or computer. The file is not sent to ToAny or to anyone else.
A little: ToAny writes WebP in its lossy mode, so a small amount of detail is traded for a much smaller file. At the default setting the difference is hard to notice. You can raise the quality under Options; there is no lossless setting.
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 WebP. There is nothing to install.
Yes. GIF to WebP runs on the compatibility engine, which takes files up to 1 GB, and a long clip takes a while because it is slower than the browser's built-in codecs. Beyond that the limit is your device's memory, since nothing is uploaded; a computer copes with large files better than a phone.