Convert WebP to GIF
Free online converter for WebP files. Indexed-colour format with animation support. Nothing to install, no watermark, and every file is deleted automatically.
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About WEBP and 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 .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 and GIF side by side
| WEBP | GIF | |
|---|---|---|
| Compression | Lossy or lossless | Lossless, 256-colour palette |
| Transparency | Yes | Yes — 1-bit, no partial |
| Animation | Yes | Yes |
| Typically used for | Web images where size matters | Short loops, reaction clips, simple animations |
What changes when you convert WEBP to GIF
Down to 256 colours
GIF stores a palette of at most 256 colours per frame. A photograph converted from WEBP 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 WEBP 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.
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