What are the size limits I am fighting?

Discord 8 MB (25 MB with Nitro), Slack and most email 10–25 MB, Twitter/X 15 MB, GitHub README ideally under 10 MB, web pages ideally under 1 MB.

Will the animation timing change?

No. Dropped frames hand their display time to the next kept frame, so the total length and pacing stay the same.

Why is the result the same file?

If none of the settings reduce the size (for example a tiny GIF already at 64 colours), the original is returned unchanged rather than a larger file.

No. Decoding and re-encoding run in your browser.

Video Converters

GIF Compressor

A GIF that is too big for Discord’s 8 MB or a page-speed budget can usually lose 50–80 % of its size with no visible change: fewer colours, a slightly lower frame rate and a sensible width.

Runs in your browser — files never leave your device.

Drop GIF files here

or click to browse · paste from clipboard · up to 200 MB each

Select files

Options

Maximum width

Frame rate

Colours

Why convert GIF to GIF

GIF stores every frame as an indexed image with up to 256 colours and no real inter-frame compression, so size scales with width × height × frames × colours. Halving the width quarters the size; going from 20 to 12 fps cuts it by 40 %; 128 colours instead of 256 saves 10–20 % on photos and much more on flat graphics.

The compressor decodes every frame (respecting the GIF’s disposal rules), drops frames to hit the target frame rate while keeping the animation’s timing, scales, and re-quantises each frame to an optimised palette — all in your browser. If nothing helps, you get the original back.

How to convert GIF to GIF

Drop one or more GIFs onto the page.
Choose a maximum width, a frame rate and the number of colours.
Click Compress and compare the size before downloading.

About the format

GIF · Graphics Interchange Format · .gif

A 1987 format limited to 256 colours per frame, still everywhere because it is the only animated image format every app can play.

GIF transparency is all-or-nothing: a pixel is either fully opaque or fully transparent.
Animated GIFs are large — a 10-second clip can be bigger than the same clip as MP4.
The 256-colour palette causes banding in photos; PNG or WebP is better for still images.

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