Animated GIFs are notoriously large and uncompressed on the web, often weighing tens of megabytes. This page shrinks a GIF by compressing color palettes, removing redundant pixels across animation frames, and cropping transparent regions — all without changing the playback speed or dimensions.
How to shrink a GIF
- Upload a GIF up to 40 MB.
- Choose the optimization effort and compression mode.
- Press Convert file and download the smaller GIF.
Fast uses the quickest optimization pass. Smallest spends more time for a tighter file. Lossless keeps every pixel intact while still removing redundant frame data.
What you get
You get another GIF. Same dimensions. Same frame count and playback speed. Usually a significantly smaller number of bytes, which is what you want before you upload it somewhere with a size cap or share it in a chat app.
When this helps
- Animated memes and reaction GIFs shared over chat apps
- Large GIFs slowing down a webpage or email attachment
- Any GIF you are about to upload somewhere with a size limit
It will not convert your GIF to video. If you need a video format, use a dedicated transcoder instead.
Related image tools
After shrinking a GIF, you may want to convert still frames to a modern format or strip hidden metadata from a screenshot:
- Convert an image to WebP — smaller files for the web
- Convert PNG/JPEG to AVIF — next-generation compression
- Convert PNG to AVIF and strip metadata — format change plus privacy cleanup
Browse all GIF and image tools.