About gifmaker.shop

gifmaker.shop is a small set of free tools for making and fixing GIFs: video to GIF, GIF to MP4, captions, Discord emoji, petpets. Each tool does one job, opens fast and doesn’t ask you to sign up.

Your files stay on your device

Most online converters upload your video to a server, convert it there and send the result back. We don’t. When you drop a file here, your browser reads it, decodes the frames and builds the GIF or MP4 inside the page you have open. The file never leaves your phone or computer, and there’s no upload wait and no server-side size cap.

That works because modern browsers can decode video themselves (through an interface called WebCodecs) and because the heavy lifting runs in a background thread, so the page stays responsive while it works. Where a browser can’t decode a format, we tell you instead of quietly sending the file somewhere else.

The GIF encoder is our own. It picks a 256-color palette from frames spread across your clip, dithers the gradients, and skips pixels that didn’t change between frames. We measured it against ffmpeg’s standard high-quality GIF settings on real footage before publishing a single page.

What pays for it

Ads on the pages, placed around the tools and never inside them. Analytics tell us which tools people use, so we know what to fix and build next. The privacy policy explains both, including the cookies.

The tools

• GIF Maker: Video or photos to GIF, all in one place.
• Video to GIF: Trim a clip, set size and FPS, download.
• MP4 to GIF: Turn an MP4 into a sharp GIF without uploading it.
• MOV to GIF: iPhone and QuickTime videos, HEVC included.
• GIF to MP4: Same timing, smaller file, plays everywhere.
• Petpet GIF Maker: The head-pat GIF of any picture or avatar.
• Discord GIF Maker: Animated emoji that fit under 256 KB, automatically.
• Add Text to GIF: Top and bottom captions on a GIF or a clip.
• Images to GIF: Photos in order, a duration for each, one GIF.
• Text GIF Maker: Typing, wave, bounce, rainbow: animated words.
• WhatsApp GIF Maker: A GIF, or a clip under 6 s that WhatsApp sends as one.

Open-source credits

These projects make the tools possible. We use them unmodified.

• Mediabunny by Vanilagy reads and writes MP4, MOV and WebM files. Mozilla Public License 2.0; source at github.com/Vanilagy/mediabunny.
• gifenc by Matt DesLauriers writes the GIF files. MIT License.
• gifuct-js by Matt Way reads GIF files. MIT License.
• Fonts, all under the SIL Open Font License 1.1: Archivo (license), Anton (license), Bangers (license), Pacifico (license), Press Start 2P (license), Lobster (license) and Inter (license).

Get in touch

Found a bug, or a file that won’t convert? Email [email protected]. Telling us your browser and the file type helps a lot. More on the contact page.