How do I convert GIF to AVIF?

Upload your GIF file using the box above, confirm AVIF as the output format, then select Convert. The converted file is ready to download as soon as processing finishes — usually in a few seconds.

Is converting GIF to AVIF free?

Yes, and there is nothing to sign up for. Every conversion route is free on every plan — paying raises limits such as file size and how many conversions you get, and removes advertising. It never unlocks a format, adds a watermark or degrades the output.

Will the quality change when converting to AVIF?

AVIF uses lossy compression, so some data is discarded to keep the file small. The default quality setting is tuned to be visually or audibly transparent for most material, and you can raise it in the conversion settings.

What happens to my file afterwards?

The uploaded file is deleted as soon as the conversion completes, and the converted file is removed automatically once its retention window ends. Download links are signed and expire within minutes.

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Convert GIF to AVIF

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About GIF and 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

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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

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GIF and AVIF side by side

GIF compared with AVIF
	GIF	AVIF
Compression	Lossless, 256-colour palette	Lossy or lossless
Transparency	Yes — 1-bit, no partial	Yes
Animation	Yes	Yes
Typically used for	Short loops, reaction clips, simple animations	Modern web delivery, bandwidth-sensitive images

What changes when you convert GIF to AVIF

The palette does not grow

A GIF holds at most 256 colours per frame, and AVIF can hold millions — but the colours your GIF discarded when it was made do not come back. Any banding you can see in the GIF will still be there afterwards, stored in a format capable of much more.

You choose how much to keep

AVIF can compress either lossily or losslessly, so the quality setting decides the outcome rather than the format. High quality stays close to the GIF you started with; lower settings trade visible detail for a much smaller file.

Encoding takes longer

AVIF comes from the AV1 video codec, and that compression is slow — noticeably slower than writing a JPEG or a PNG. The payoff is the smallest file of any format here at a comparable quality. Check your audience first: browsers handle AVIF well now, but plenty of desktop and print software still will not open it.

How the AVIF is written

Our default is quality 60 — the scale is not comparable with JPEG's, and 60 here is a visually higher setting than the number suggests. 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.

Colour detail is stored at half resolution

AVIF keeps full brightness detail but records colour at half resolution in each direction, because the eye is far more sensitive to the first than the second. On photographs it is invisible. On saturated edges it is not: red text on white, thin coloured lines and flat graphic shapes can pick up fringing. If the GIF is a screenshot, a logo or anything with text in it, a lossless format will treat it far better.