Convert GIF to WebP

For a still image, WebP does everything GIF does in a fraction of the bytes — transparency included — and every current browser displays it. The honest catch is animation: this page produces still WebP, so a moving GIF becomes its first frame, and the tool counts the frames and tells you so before you press anything.

  1. Your GIF files

    Drop your GIF files here

    GIFWebPPNGJPG

    Your files are never uploaded.

  2. What you want back

  3. Your files

How to convert GIF to WebP

  1. Add your GIF files

    One or many. They are read by your browser and never uploaded.

  2. Read the frame count

    An animated GIF is flagged with its frame count before converting — only the first frame survives.

  3. Save the WebP files

    Individually, or the batch as a zip.

What you get

Smaller than the GIF, and than the PNG detour

GIF's compression is from 1987; WebP's is not. A still GIF typically shrinks by half or more, and lands smaller than the equivalent PNG too — with the 256-colour palette ceiling gone at the same time.

It tells you about the frames first

The GIF's structure is read and its frames counted before anything converts. Twelve frames in, one picture out — stated above the button, not discovered in the result. A still GIF says nothing, because there is nothing to warn about.

Transparency comes along

GIF's single see-through colour maps cleanly into WebP's real alpha channel. Nothing is filled in white, and edges that were hard stay hard.

Your files are never uploaded

Reading, counting and converting all happen in this page. Your files stay yours, verifiably — the network tab is right there.

Questions about GIF and WebP

What happens to an animated GIF?
You get the first frame as a still WebP, and the page tells you the frame count before you convert so the choice is informed. Animated WebP exists as a format, but this tool does not write it — if you need the motion kept, converting is not what you want; keep the GIF or use a video format.
Why WebP instead of PNG?
Size, at no cost that matters here. Both keep transparency and both are accepted by every current browser; WebP is simply smaller — typically a quarter to a third off the PNG for the same image. PNG's remaining advantage is software older than WebP support, which in browsers means roughly pre-2020.
Will the WebP look better than the GIF?
It will look the same, in a smaller file. A GIF is limited to 256 colours and that limit was applied when it was made — no conversion invents the colours back. What WebP removes is the penalty for *future* edits: out of the palette, adjustments stop collapsing into dither.
Does anything still not open WebP?
Every current browser and most current apps read it. The stragglers are old desktop software and some office tooling — if the image is bound for one of those, JPG or PNG on this same page is the safer target.
Is it free, and is my file uploaded?
Free, no account, no limit. Everything happens in your browser. Your files are never uploaded.

If the result needs to fit under an upload limit, resize it to a size in KB. Photos from an iPhone rather than the web? That is HEIC to JPG. Or see the rest of the image tools.