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Make A GIF
Website for making animated GIFs from pictures, a video clip or an online video link, and hosting them.
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Overview
Make A GIF turns pictures, a video clip you upload or a webcam recording into a looping GIF. It also pulls a clip from a YouTube, Facebook, TikTok or Twitch link. You trim to the part you want and it builds the loop. It is also a hosting site: finished GIFs sit in your account with a link to share, and there is a public library people browse.
It runs in the browser instead of an app. Making GIFs is free, but every free GIF carries a Make A GIF watermark and is capped in quality. Finished GIFs are published to the public library. Premium is a monthly subscription, offered with a trial, that removes the watermark and adds HD GIFs and faster editing.
Key features
✓Builds a GIF from a set of pictures
✓Builds a GIF from an uploaded video clip
✓Builds a GIF from a YouTube, Facebook, TikTok or Twitch link
✓Webcam capture straight to GIF
✓Trim to the exact part you want
✓GIF speed, resize & caption controls
✓Hosts your GIFs with a share link
✓Account to save & organise your GIFs
✓HD GIFs & no watermark on Premium
When to use
Use Make A GIF if:
- You have pictures, a short clip, an online video link or a webcam recording and want any of them turned into a loop in the same place.
- You want to grab one moment out of a longer video, since you trim to the part you want before it builds the loop.
- You want the GIF hosted with a share link rather than sitting in your downloads folder.
- You make GIFs often and want them saved and organised under one account.
- You want to see whether the tool suits you before paying, since Premium comes with a trial.
When NOT to use
Skip Make A GIF if any of these describe you:
- You need a clean GIF without paying. Every free GIF is watermarked and quality-capped, so another GIF maker will serve you better.
- Your GIF is personal or work-related and should not be public. Every finished GIF is published to the public library here.
- You care about exact frames and file size, for example to fit an email or a forum limit. ezgif gives you frame-by-frame editing and optimisation that this does not.
Frequently asked questions
You can make GIFs for free, but every free GIF carries a Make A GIF watermark and is limited in quality. Premium is a monthly subscription, offered with a trial, and it removes the watermark and adds HD GIFs and faster editing. If you stop paying you can keep making GIFs on the free terms.
A set of pictures, a video clip you upload, or a recording from your webcam. It also takes a link to a video on YouTube, Facebook, TikTok or Twitch. In each case you trim to the section you want and the site turns it into a looping GIF.
No. A finished GIF is published to Make A GIF's public library, under your account or as anonymous if you are not signed in. The publishing form has no privacy setting, so do not put anything personal or belonging to a client through it.
Upgrade to Premium, or use a GIF maker that does not watermark free output. The watermark switch in the publishing form is locked for free users. The watermark goes on when the GIF is created, so it cannot be taken off one you already made.
You set the speed, as the delay between frames. You can also resize or crop the frames, keep transparency, and add captions. There is no frame-by-frame editing, and the final file size is not adjustable.
No. Make A GIF is a website. You use it in a browser on a computer or a phone, and there is nothing to install.
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