Images
Turn your GIF files into WebP in seconds. Everything happens in your browser: nothing is uploaded to any server.
Drag your files here
Or paste them with Ctrl+V. They never leave your device.
Photos lose a lot of colour; here only the first frame of an animated GIF is converted. As WebP it is much lighter, ideal for a fast website.
GIF is a veteran format limited to 256 colours, with single-level transparency and animation.
Strengths: It works everywhere and suits simple drawings, icons and short animations.
Limits: Photos lose a lot of colour; here only the first frame of an animated GIF is converted.
WebP is a Google format designed for the web, with lossy or lossless compression and transparency.
Strengths: It is noticeably smaller than JPG and PNG at similar quality, so pages load faster.
Limits: Some editing apps, older viewers and upload forms still do not accept it.
No. The GIF to WebP conversion runs entirely in your browser, with code downloaded from this site and executed on your device. You can check it in the Network tab of the developer tools or by going offline after the page loads.
A little: WebP uses lossy compression. At the default quality the difference is not visible to the naked eye, and you can raise it in the options for maximum quality.
Your device’s memory sets the limit: on desktop, images up to about 100 megapixels; on mobile, up to 16.7. If an image is too large you are told before it starts.
Yes. Drop as many GIF files as you like: several are converted at the same time, depending on your processor cores, and when they finish you can download each WebP or all of them in a ZIP.