Video to Animated WebP
Convert a video or GIF into a looping animated WebP — smaller than GIF with full color.
Add source files
Drop images to animate, or a GIF/APNG to convert.
Pick an animation tool
Convert a video or GIF into a looping animated WebP — smaller than GIF with full color.
Fine-tune
Optional — sensible defaults are already set.
About Video to Animated WebP
Convert a video, or an existing GIF, into a looping animated WebP. Unlike GIF, animated WebP is not limited to 256 colours and uses lossy compression, so it usually looks better and weighs less. All current major browsers display it, which makes it a good GIF replacement for websites and many chat apps.
When it helps
- Creating lightweight animated previews or hero images for a website.
- Making animated stickers for apps that accept animated WebP, such as some messaging platforms.
- Shrinking an existing GIF while improving its colour quality.
- Turning a short product clip into an autoplaying image that does not need a video player.
Tips
- Start with the defaults (15 fps, 480 px max width, quality 75) and adjust from there. Frame rate and width affect size the most.
- Quality 60 to 80 is the usual sweet spot. Above about 90 the file grows quickly with little visible improvement.
- The max width only shrinks; a video narrower than the limit keeps its size. Audio is always removed.
- Encoding runs in WebAssembly and can be slow. Trim long videos first, and keep inputs well under the 2 GB limit.
Good to know
Quick answers about video to animated webp in your browser.
For quality and size, usually yes: full colour, smaller files and smoother gradients. GIF still has wider support in older software, email clients and some upload forms that only accept GIF.
Yes. This tool accepts GIF as input as well as video files. The GIF's frames are re-encoded with the frame rate, width and quality you choose.
Some desktop image viewers and older software only show the first frame or cannot open WebP at all. Browsers handle it well; for maximum compatibility elsewhere, GIF is still safer.
Yes. There is no sign-up, no watermark and no limit on how many files you process.
No. Files are read and processed locally in your browser, so they never leave your device.
Runs in WebAssembly: large files are slow and must stay under 2GB.
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Part of the GIF Tools collection.