Free, in your browser, no signup: files delete themselves within an hour.
One file at a time for now
Batch processing isn't available yet: drop files one by one, or use the Merger to join them.
Converting GIF to WEBM is free and takes seconds: upload the GIF above and download it as WEBM, usually around a tenth of the size.
Flipping GIF to WEBM is the sanity move: the same animation as WEBM video is usually a tenth of the GIF's size. Your GIF's frames are re-encoded once into WEBM, 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.
WEBM is video the way browsers like it: open, royalty-free and built to stream. A Matroska-based container restricted to VP8/VP9/AV1 video with Vorbis or Opus audio. That makes it the right destination when what you need is embedding on the web without licensing worries.
Drop your GIF file into the flipper above, or click to browse for it.
Check the output format: WEBM is already selected for you.
Hit Convert, give it a moment, then download your new WEBM.
| GIF | WEBM | |
|---|---|---|
| Born | 1987, CompuServe | 2010, Google, out of its VP8 acquisition |
| Type | video · lossy | video · container |
| Best for | short, silent, autoplaying loops that work absolutely everywhere | embedding on the web without licensing worries |
| Weak spot | color depth and size: 256 colors per frame and no modern compression | life outside the browser: editors, TVs and Apple devices get picky |
| Typical size | huge for what it shows: a few seconds can outweigh a minute of MP4 | often smaller than the equivalent MP4: VP9 and AV1 squeeze harder than H.264 |
| Plays on | Everything with a screen: every browser, chat app and forum since the nineties. | Every modern browser; hit-and-miss in editing apps and on Apple hardware. |
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 WEBM compresses across frames instead of storing each one whole.
Every modern browser; hit-and-miss in editing apps and on Apple hardware. That's the usual reason people leave GIF behind: WEBM 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.