GIF Splitter (GIF to Frames)

See exactly how an animated GIF is built and take it apart. The splitter lists every frame with its delay, disposal method, position, size, transparency and palette, totals the running time and reads the loop count. It saves the frames you choose — all of them, a range, or every Nth — as PNG, JPG or WebP: either as full frames, the picture as it appears at each moment, or as the stored layers, only the patch each frame actually draws, which is what you need to edit or rebuild the animation. Nothing is uploaded.

How to use this tool

1. Choose a GIF.
2. Set the range of frames and, if you like, every Nth frame.
3. Choose full frames or stored layers, and the image format.
4. Read the frame table, then download the frames individually or as a ZIP.

Formula

Total length = sum of all frame delays (delays under 0.02 s count as 0.1 s)

GIF stores delays in hundredths of a second; browsers play delays of 0 or 0.01 s as 0.1 s, so the table shows both. Disposal says what happens after a frame: keep it, clear its area to the background (transparent), or restore what was there before. Full frames apply all of this; stored layers show the raw frame rectangle with its transparent colour left transparent. The loop count comes from the NETSCAPE2.0 block: none means the GIF plays once.

Example

A 12-frame GIF with delays of 8, 8, 8 … 8 hundredths and one 50 at the end runs 11 × 0.08 + 0.5 = 1.38 s per loop. Saving frames 1 to 12, every 3rd gives 4 images: frames 1, 4, 7 and 10.