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Converting GIF to MP4 is free and takes seconds: upload the GIF above and download it as MP4, usually around a tenth of the size.
Flipping GIF to MP4 is the sanity move: the same animation as MP4 video is usually a tenth of the GIF's size. Your GIF's frames are re-encoded once into MP4, gain real compression, and can finally be embedded anywhere modern video plays.
GIF is the internet's court jester: 1987 technology that still runs every group chat. It was born in 1987, CompuServe, and its real weak spot is color depth and size: 256 colors per frame and no modern compression.
MP4 is the world's default video: the file that plays before anyone has to think about it. A container, most often carrying H.264 or H.265 video with AAC audio. That makes it the right destination when what you need is playing everywhere: browsers, phones, TVs, editors, slide decks.
Drop your GIF file into the flipper above, or click to browse for it.
Check the output format: MP4 is already selected for you.
Hit Convert, give it a moment, then download your new MP4.
| GIF | MP4 | |
|---|---|---|
| Born | 1987, CompuServe | 2001, the MPEG standards group, built on Apple's QuickTime design |
| Type | video · lossy | video · container |
| Best for | short, silent, autoplaying loops that work absolutely everywhere | playing everywhere: browsers, phones, TVs, editors, slide decks |
| Weak spot | color depth and size: 256 colors per frame and no modern compression | very little day to day: as a container its quality depends on the codec inside |
| Typical size | huge for what it shows: a few seconds can outweigh a minute of MP4 | roughly 50–100 MB per minute at 1080p, depending on bitrate |
| Plays on | Everything with a screen: every browser, chat app and forum since the nineties. | Every browser, phone, TV and editing app worth mentioning. |
You'll usually gain: modern video codecs render the same frames more smoothly than GIF's 1987 palette tricks, at a fraction of the size.
Much smaller: typically around a tenth of the GIF, because MP4 compresses across frames instead of storing each one whole.
Every browser, phone, TV and editing app worth mentioning. That's the usual reason people leave GIF behind: MP4 simply opens in more of the places that matter.
It scales with length and resolution: short clips finish in seconds, long HD videos can take a few minutes. Files auto-delete within an hour after.