WebP to GIF Converter

Animated WebP stickers and memes are compact, but many chat apps, forums, e-mail programs and older editors only accept GIF. This converter turns WebP images into GIFs in your browser, frame by frame: each frame keeps its own display time, the loop setting carries over, and transparent areas stay transparent. Still WebP images become single-frame GIFs. Nothing is uploaded, and no large engine has to load — the frames are read with the browser's own image decoder.

How to use this tool

1. Choose the width, looping, transparency and colour options.
2. Choose one or more WebP files; conversion starts right away.
3. Check the frame count, length and preview of each GIF.
4. Download the GIFs (several come as one ZIP).

Formula

GIF frame delay = WebP frame duration, rounded to 1/100 s (minimum 0.02 s)

GIF stores delays in hundredths of a second, so a 33 ms WebP frame becomes 30 ms. Each frame is reduced to at most 256 colours with its own palette; after the first frame only the pixels that changed are stored, the rest are left transparent over the previous frame, which keeps animations small. WebP loop counts are kept (0 = forever); a WebP that plays 3 times becomes a GIF that plays 3 times.

Example

A 512 × 512 animated sticker with 24 frames at 40 ms (0.96 s per loop, playing forever) becomes a GIF with 24 frames of 40 ms, also looping forever. At "Up to 256 px" it is resized to 256 × 256, which typically cuts the GIF to about a quarter of the size.

Browser support

Reading the frames of an animated WebP needs the ImageDecoder feature, which current Chrome and Edge (and other Chromium browsers) provide. Where it is missing, still WebP images still convert, and an animated one shows a clear message instead of a broken GIF. The usual video engine cannot help here, because its WebP decoder does not support animation.