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GIF Maker

Turn a set of images into one animated GIF, entirely in your browser.

Privacy: your files never leave your device. All processing happens locally in your browser.

How to use

  1. 1.Click Browse images and select two or more pictures; they appear as numbered thumbnails in the order they will play.
  2. 2.Set the speed in frames per second and choose whether the GIF loops forever or plays once — the animation re-encodes as you adjust.
  3. 3.Preview the animated result, then click Download to save your .gif. Everything runs locally, so nothing is uploaded.

About GIF Maker

GIF Maker builds an animated GIF from several still images without ever leaving your browser. Pick two or more pictures, arrange them in the order you want them to play, choose how fast the frames advance and whether the animation loops, and download a ready-to-share .gif in a single click. There is no account to create, no watermark, no queue, and no server round trip: every frame is decoded, resized, quantized, and encoded on your own device, so the images you drop in are never uploaded anywhere.

Under the hood the tool uses gifenc, a fast, lightweight, pure-JavaScript GIF encoder. Because a GIF requires every frame to share the same dimensions, the first image you add defines a common canvas. That canvas is capped so its longer side never exceeds 800 pixels, which keeps encoding quick and file sizes reasonable; smaller images are never upscaled, so they stay crisp. Each subsequent image is scaled proportionally to fit inside the canvas and centered on a white background, so photos with different shapes and aspect ratios line up cleanly instead of stretching or cropping. The tool then reads the pixels of each rendered frame, reduces them to a 256-color palette, maps every pixel to that palette, and writes the indexed frame into the animation stream with your chosen delay.

You control the animation with two simple options. The speed control is expressed in frames per second, from a slow one frame per second up to a smooth thirty frames per second, and the tool shows the matching per-frame delay in seconds so you always know how long each image stays on screen. The default of two frames per second, roughly half a second per image, is a comfortable starting point for slideshows and reaction clips. The loop switch decides whether the GIF repeats forever, which is the classic behavior most people expect, or plays through once and stops. Change either option and the animation is re-encoded immediately, so you can preview the result and fine-tune the timing before you download.

Typical uses include stitching a burst of photos into a short animation, making a simple slideshow, turning screenshots into a step-by-step demo, building reaction GIFs and memes, or animating frames you exported from a design or drawing app. The tool accepts the common web image formats, including JPG and JPEG, PNG, WebP, BMP, and static GIF; for an animated source GIF it uses the first frame. To keep everything fast and responsive on a single main thread, you can combine up to fifty frames per animation, and larger frames are downscaled to the 800-pixel cap described above.

Because the whole pipeline is local, GIF Maker works offline once the page has loaded, respects your privacy by design, and never counts against any upload limit. It is a practical, zero-cost way to create shareable animations for chat apps, social posts, documentation, forums, and email without installing software or handing your images to a third party.

Frequently asked questions

Are my images uploaded to a server?
No. Every step — decoding, resizing, color reduction, and GIF encoding — runs in your browser on your own device using pure JavaScript. Your images never leave your computer, so the tool works offline and keeps your files private.
Which image formats can I use, and are there any limits?
You can combine JPG, JPEG, PNG, WebP, BMP, and static GIF images (an animated GIF contributes its first frame). To stay fast on one thread, you can add up to 50 frames, and the animation is capped so its longer side is at most 800 pixels.
How do I control the animation speed and looping?
Use the frames-per-second control to set how long each image stays on screen, from 1 up to 30 fps (the default is 2 fps, about half a second per frame). The loop switch makes the GIF repeat forever or play through a single time.

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