Easily make the perfect animated GIF
GIFs can be used almost anywhere photos can, from viral meme formats and profile pictures to reaction comments and video clips. Whether you want to start with a video, photos, other GIFs, or text, the Kapwing Studio lets you record, create, edit, and download GIF files quickly.
Kapwing is a powerful, all-in-one GIF editor that supports the plethora of tasks that you'd like to do to edit your GIF, while at the same time being easy enough that anyone can get started. What's more, if you don't have a GIF to edit, you can use Kapwing's plugins to discover new GIFs to create and share with your friends.
How to Make a GIF Online
- Add video, GIFs, and images
Make a GIF from your own content. Easily upload your favorite media, or just paste a link.
- Edit your GIF
Drag and drop your media into the right order. You can also change the size and shape of your output GIF. When you’re ready, export and set the format to GIF.
- Share your video
Download your new video and share directly on social media. Get ready for higher engagement!
Animated GIF Maker Made for Everyone
Brilliantly capture the little moments of emotion and reaction. GIFs have become an essential part of our every day language. With Kapwing's online GIF editor, creators can now easily make GIFs from videos, images, or even just text.
Make GIFs for Instagram, Discord, Twitter, and Reddit to share perfect reacts to post, strengthen your own tone, or highlight your online personality. Using this GIF maker, you can make GIFs from YouTube or your own images in seconds. Simply paste the YouTube video link to make a GIF out of a video or upload multiple images and adjust the time duration of your GIF. Go further as to add text, transitions, animations, images, crops, filters, and speed adjustments to enhance your content. Remember that animated GIFs will not play sound, so converting a video into a GIF will remove any sound from the video file.
Kapwing also supports a large library of text animations as well as special effects that you can apply to your GIF. You can remove the background of a video, for example, and add a different background to convert to a funny GIF to share with friends. These animated files are ideal for quick comments, meme formats, and in-text video embeds.
Discover even more features on Kapwing
Add Subtitles
Generate and customizable captions that automatically sync to your video. Use our AI-powered tool to create a transcript of your video, and then customize your auto-synced subtitles to make them perfect for your content creation needs. Resize, swap out fonts, or add in professional animations and transitions - all your edits will instantly be applied to the entire video.
Smart Cut
Smart Cut automates your video editing process by detecting and removing silences from your video in a matter of seconds. You'll be saving hours of editing time and completing your rough cut faster than ever for talking head videos, recorded presentations, tutorials, vlogs, and more. Editing has never been so seamless.
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Resizer
Repurpose videos faster and make them look more professional with our Resize Canvas feature! In just a few clicks, you can take a single video and adjust it to be the right size for every other platform, whether it's for TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Twitter, Linkedin, or somewhere else.
Background Remover
With Kapwing's smart background removal tool, you can isolate people from the background of a video for free, without a green screen. All it takes is a few clicks. Upload your content, select the Remove Background tool, and use the preview to choose the threshold that best works for you.
Clean Audio
Enhance your project’s audio in seconds with Kapwing. In one click, Clean Audio automatically removes background noise, corrects loudness, and helps reduce popping sounds in your audio and videos. To use it, simply upload a video or audio file, then select Clean Audio on the right side.
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Collaborative editing
Work with your team directly in Kapwing. Create and edit content, then send it to share and collaborate with your teammates. Make team workspaces, comment in the editor, and work on videos together in real time or asynchronously.
Trimmer
Edit the length of your video clip by dragging the timeline handles or by using the Split tool. It’s never been easier to cut out silences, rearrange clips, or adjust the length of your audio to fit your video.
Waveforms
Kapwing's customizable waveforms let you bring your audio or podcast content to life. Our Waveform tool creates an automatically-generated, animated graph showing the frequency and amplitude of your audio over time. Choose between a classic waveform style and a stacked “bars” style to bring your own touch to your project.
Unlimited Overlays
Make your content pop with image overlays, emojis, progress bars, and audio waveforms. Then simply resize and position them to customize your project. With unlimited overlays, the possibilities are endless.
Stock Assets
Browse hundreds of royalty-free images, GIFs, videos, sound effects, and music clips directly in our editor. Curate assets that will bring your project to life, then edit them the way you want to all in one place.
Templates
Get inspired by hundreds of trendy video templates made to unleash your creativity. Select the template that best suits your project, and then make it your own with custom videos, images, or text. Making professionally designed videos or memes has never been faster.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the best free GIF maker?
While there are many sites that let you find GIFs, Kapwing is the only website that supports creating, recording, editing, and exporting GIFs all in one single platform. The combination of ease of use and powerful editing features are what lead reviewers to trust Kapwing with a 4.9+ rating on Google Reviews. Kapwing works with no ads, and is completely free and online. Simple GIFs can be created and repurposed within seconds without any software downloads or installations. Out of the many GIF creators online, creators agree that Kapwing is a clear choice.
How do I make my own GIF?
Many GIFs are small segments of videos that have been trimmed and then converted into a GIF, or 'Graphics Interchange Format' image. To make their own GIF, creators often start with a video, usually a popular one from YouTube or live television. This video is then broken down into a short segment that varies from 1 to 30 seconds. Many times, GIFs capture a very brief scene or moment of time that has a powerful reaction or evokes a strong emotion from the viewer. Once a video is trimmed and converted to a GIF format, it becomes a true GIF that can be shared and posted on social media platforms.
How do you make a GIF with pictures?
A GIF made from still pictures is similar to a slideshow video, but exported in a GIF format. To make this type of GIF slideshow, you'll need to find a reliable online GIF editor that supports stitching clips together. One great option is Kapwing, which allows creators to append images together into a video format using a timeline editor. This lets creators specify the duration of each image as well as move the images around to best fit what they want in their completed GIF. By uploading the various images, assembling them in order, and exporting as a GIF, creators can make a GIF from still pictures.
How do I make GIFs interesting?
Since GIFs are short file formats, creators need to focus on making shareworthy and relevant content to get the most interesting final GIFs. Often times, shareworthiness comes from a memorable moment or a emotional reaction. Many of the best GIF creators focus on moments from big events, like the Grammy's or the Superbowl. Other GIFs contain something funny or unusually, like a cat playing the piano. The most interesting GIFs will always immediately catch a viewer's attention and result in the GIF being widely shared on social media.
What's different about Kapwing?
Easy
Start creating immediately with thousands of templates and copyright free videos, images, music, and GIFs. Repurpose content from the internet by pasting a link.
Free
Kapwing is completely free to start. Just upload a video and start editing. Supercharge your editing workflow with our powerful online tools.
Accessible
Automatically subtitle and translate videos with our AI-powered Subtitler tool. Caption your videos in seconds, so that no viewers get left behind.
Online
Kapwing is cloud based, which means your videos are wherever you are. Use it on any device and access your content anywhere in the world.
No spam or ads
We don't serve ads: we're committed to building a quality, trustworthy website. And we will never spam you nor sell your information to anyone.
Powerful
Kapwing works hard to help make the content you want, when you want it. Get started on your project today.
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