Convert AVIF to GIF
Free online converter for AVIF files. Indexed-colour format with animation support. Nothing to install, no watermark, and every file is deleted automatically.
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About AVIF and GIF
AVIF .avif
A modern image format derived from the AV1 video codec. It compresses harder than JPEG or WebP at the same visual quality, and handles wide colour and high dynamic range.
Good for
- The smallest files of any format here at a given quality
- Transparency, animation, wide colour gamut and HDR
- Holds up better than JPEG at very low bitrates
Trade-offs
- Support is newest — older browsers and many desktop apps cannot open it
- Encoding is slow compared with JPEG
- Fine detail can smooth over at aggressive settings
image/avif
GIF .gif
A 1987 format that survives for one reason: it animates, and it plays everywhere without a video player. Its palette is capped at 256 colours per frame.
Good for
- Animation that works in any browser and any chat app
- Lossless within its 256-colour palette
- Universally supported after nearly four decades
Trade-offs
- 256 colours means visible banding on photographs
- Transparency is on-or-off per pixel, so edges look jagged
- Far larger than a real video file for the same clip
image/gif
AVIF and GIF side by side
| AVIF | GIF | |
|---|---|---|
| Compression | Lossy or lossless | Lossless, 256-colour palette |
| Transparency | Yes | Yes — 1-bit, no partial |
| Animation | Yes | Yes |
| Typically used for | Modern web delivery, bandwidth-sensitive images | Short loops, reaction clips, simple animations |
What changes when you convert AVIF to GIF
Down to 256 colours
GIF stores a palette of at most 256 colours per frame. A photograph converted from AVIF has to be reduced to fit, which shows as banding across skies, skin and gradients. For a still image this is almost never the right format — GIF is worth choosing only when something must animate everywhere without a video player.
Camera data is removed by default
A AVIF straight from a phone or camera carries EXIF metadata — model, settings, timestamp and, quite often, the GPS coordinates of where the photo was taken. The converted GIF is written without it, so a file you are about to share does not quietly carry your location. The orientation flag is read and applied to the pixels first, so the image will not come out sideways once the tag holding it is gone. If you need the metadata kept, there is a setting for it.
How the GIF is written
Our default is a high effort setting on the palette search, which is where GIF quality is won or lost. The quality control on the converter moves this if you need to — the default aims to be indistinguishable from the source at a sensible file size, rather than to win a compression benchmark.
Other AVIF conversions
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