Convert GIF to WebP
Free online converter for GIF files. Modern web format, roughly 30% smaller than JPEG. Nothing to install, no watermark, and every file is deleted automatically.
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About GIF and WEBP
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
WebP .webp
Google's image format, designed to replace both JPEG and PNG. It can compress either way — lossy for photographs, lossless for graphics — and supports transparency and animation in both modes.
Good for
- Typically 25–35% smaller than JPEG at comparable quality
- Transparency in lossy mode, which JPEG cannot do at all
- One format covers photographs, graphics and short animations
Trade-offs
- Older software and some print workflows still will not open it
- Lossy WebP discards detail just as JPEG does
- Editing tools support it less consistently than PNG or JPEG
image/webp
GIF and WEBP side by side
| GIF | WEBP | |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | Web images where size matters |
What changes when you convert GIF to WEBP
The palette does not grow
A GIF holds at most 256 colours per frame, and WEBP 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
WEBP 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.
How the WEBP is written
Our default is quality 82, with the encoder choosing colour subsampling per image rather than applying it blindly. 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.
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