GIF Editor - Crop, Resize, Speed & Video to GIF

GIF editor in Chrome: crop, resize and speed up GIFs or turn a video into a GIF. Free, files never leave your device.

GIF Editor is a free Chrome extension that lets you crop and resize animated GIFs, change the speed, cut frames, add a caption, or turn a video clip or a set of photos into a new GIF. The frames are processed in your browser, so your files stay on your device. 🔰 How to use GIF Editor 1. Click the extension icon in the Chrome toolbar to open GIF Editor in the side panel. 2. Drop a GIF, a video or several photos into the panel, click to choose files, or paste an image from the clipboard. 3. Pick a tool, adjust the settings and watch the preview change. 4. Press Apply to write the changes into the file, or Open full editor when you want the frame timeline. 5. Download the finished GIF, or export it as MP4 or WebP. 6. Found an animation on a web page? Right-click it, choose Edit in GIF Editor and the file opens straight in the panel. ℹ️ GIF Editor is free with every tool unlocked. You can edit as many files as you like without a trial period, a sign-up form or a watermark. 👍 Top 🔟 reasons to choose GIF Editor 1️⃣ Local processing. The open-source gifsicle and FFmpeg engines are packaged inside the extension and run on your computer, so private clips never reach a server. 2️⃣ Quality kept where it matters. Resizing, speed changes and frame edits rewrite the GIF directly instead of re-encoding every frame, so the original colors survive. 3️⃣ Frame by frame control. The full editor shows a timeline where you select frames with a click, pick a range with Shift and add single frames with Ctrl. 4️⃣ Precise cropping. To crop a GIF, drag a box over the preview or type the position, width and height in pixels. 5️⃣ GIF speed from 0.25x to 4x. Slow a reaction down or speed up a long screen recording, and reverse GIF playback with one click. 6️⃣ Captions that stay editable. Add text layers in the font, size and color you like, give them an outline and drag them anywhere on the preview. 7️⃣ Smaller files on demand. Optimize offers three levels and a lossy compression slider, and shows the size before and after. 8️⃣ Video to GIF. Set the start and end, the frame rate and the width, and convert a clip of up to 60 seconds. 9️⃣ Photos to GIF. Use it as a GIF maker and combine up to 500 images into one animation, set the delay per frame and decide how pictures of another size fill the frame. 🔟 Undo and redo. Changes queue up as pending steps, so you can step back before anything is written to the file. ❓ Why would you need GIF Editor? ✅ A reaction GIF is too big for a chat app and has to lose a few megabytes without looking blocky. ✅ A support engineer records a bug, trims the dead seconds at the start and sends a short loop. ✅ A marketer turns a product demo video into a light animation for an email newsletter, where video does not play. ✅ A teacher speeds up a slow science experiment clip so the class sees the whole reaction in a few seconds. ✅ A designer crops a square loop for a social media profile and a wide one for a website banner. ✅ A blogger adds a short caption to a meme without uploading the picture to an online service. ✅ A photographer uses GIF Editor to build a slideshow from a burst of shots taken at an event. ✅ A developer prepares animated screenshots for documentation below a repository size limit. ✅ A community manager collects fan art animations and needs them in one size. ✅ You work with screen recordings with client data and company rules forbid sending them to a website. ❓ Frequently Asked Questions: ❔ How can I edit a GIF? 💡 Drop the file into the side panel and choose a tool on the toolbar, from cropping and rotation to speed and captions. Each tool shows its result on the preview. Nothing is written until you press Apply, which lets you combine several changes and save them in one pass. An animated GIF found on a web page opens in the same panel with a right-click. ❔ How do I edit an already existing GIF from a website? 💡 Right-click the animation on the page and pick Edit in GIF Editor from the menu. The extension loads that one file into the panel. Some sites block such downloads; in that case Chrome asks your permission for that one site, and the extension never requests it at install. Files above 200 MB are not fetched, so save them to your computer and drop them in instead. ❔ Is an online editor safe for private clips? 💡 Check where your files go. A typical online service uploads every frame to its servers, adds a watermark or limits the number of frames. Here the work stays inside Chrome, long GIFs are edited whole instead of being cut to the first few dozen frames, and the finished GIF carries no logo. Every tool is free, so no feature waits behind a paywall. ❔ How do I edit an animated GIF frame by frame? 💡 Open the full editor from the panel to see every frame on a timeline. Delete single frames with the × on each thumbnail, keep only a selected range to trim the start and the end, or restore deleted frames if you change your mind. GIF Editor keeps at least one frame, so a stray click cannot leave you with an empty file. ❔ Can I make a GIF from text? 💡 You can add text to a GIF, a video clip or a photo sequence. Add a text layer, type your words, choose bold or italic and the alignment, then place the caption on all frames or only on a chosen range. A text layer stays editable until you apply it, so typos are easy to fix. ❔ How can I make a GIF from a YouTube video? 💡 Streaming sites do not offer the video as a file, so the extension cannot pull it from the player. Use a clip that you have saved on your computer and have the right to use, drop it into the panel, set the start and end time (up to 60 seconds in total) and press Convert to GIF. ❔ How do I resize a GIF without making it blurry? 💡 Open Resize, keep the Keep aspect ratio box checked and type the new width or height in pixels. The panel shows the output size before you apply. Shrinking a GIF keeps it crisp. Enlarging a small animation cannot add detail that was never there, so for a bigger display it is better to start from the original video and convert it again. ❔ How many steps can I undo? 💡 The side panel remembers the last 8 applied steps and the full editor the last 10. Before you press Apply, pending changes can be removed one by one at no cost, because nothing has been written to the file yet. ❔ Can I rotate or flip a GIF? 💡 Yes. Rotate turns the animation by 90, 180 or 270 degrees. Flip mirrors it horizontally or vertically. Both changes rewrite the frames without recompression, and the Loop forever option lets you choose whether the result repeats endlessly or plays once. ❔ Can I combine photos of different sizes into one GIF? 💡 Yes. The first photo sets the frame, and you decide how the others fill it. They can be cropped to cover the whole frame, fitted inside it with empty edges, or stretched to the exact size. Set one delay for every picture, preview the animation and press Create GIF. ❔ Which video formats can I convert? 💡 Any video your Chrome can play, such as MP4 with H.264, WebM and most MOV files, converts fastest. Other formats go through the built-in video engine and take longer. The video engine is about 30 MB and loads once, the first time you need it. ❔ Is there a limit on GIF length or size? 💡 Most edits have no frame cap, including crop, speed and optimize. Output sides go up to 8192 pixels. Adding text redraws every frame, so a very long high-resolution GIF may need more memory than the browser allows; the editor warns you before it starts and suggests resizing or deleting frames first. ❔ Why does my GIF play slower in the browser than I set? 💡 Browsers do not show frame delays below 20 milliseconds and slow them down. If a sped-up GIF looks wrong, lower the frame rate or delete every second frame instead of shortening the delay further. ❔ Can I make a GIF smaller for Discord, Slack or email? 💡 Yes. Start with Optimize at the Medium level, then try the lossy slider if the file is still too big. Lowering the width with Resize cuts the size much faster than compression alone. When the platform accepts video, MP4 or WebP export gives the smallest file. ❔ What permissions does the extension need? 💡 At install it asks for two things, the side panel and an entry in the right-click menu of images and videos. Access to a website is requested only when you right-click a file on a site that blocks direct downloads. GIF Editor cannot read your browsing history and has no account, and the list of bundled open-source components with their licenses is available from the panel. ❔ Does it work on a Mac or a Chromebook? 💡 GIF Editor runs wherever desktop Chrome runs, so it works on Windows and macOS computers as well as on Linux and Chromebooks. You do not need Photoshop or a separate photo editor, and once installed it keeps working offline. If you have any questions, problems, or feature requests, please contact us. Install it now!