JPG to GIF Maker

Add your photos to the box above, put them in the order you want, choose how long each picture stays on screen and press the button. A moment later you see the finished animation playing, with its file size, number of frames and length, and you can download it as a GIF file.

Everything happens in your browser with our own GIF encoder, so your pictures are not uploaded anywhere. You can add up to 200 pictures, each up to 50 MB, and PNG, WebP, BMP and GIF pictures work as well as JPG. With a single picture you get a still GIF instead of an animation.

GIF is one of the oldest picture formats on the web, created in 1987, and still the one that plays as a moving picture almost everywhere without a play button. A GIF file can hold many frames, each with its own delay, and a note that tells the viewer how many times to play them. Browsers, chat apps, email programs and forums show it as a short silent clip that starts on its own.

The price of that wide support is an old design. Each frame of a GIF can use at most 256 colours, chosen from millions, and the pixels are packed with a lossless method called LZW that works well for flat areas and poorly for the fine noise of photos. That is why a GIF made from photos is larger and a little rougher than the photos themselves, and why the settings on this page matter so much.

Turning photos into GIF is still the simplest way to make something that moves and plays everywhere: in a message, a forum post, an email signature or a product page where video is not allowed. The rest of this page explains what each setting does, how big the files get, and how to reach a size limit when a site asks for one.

A JPG to GIF animation is simply your photos shown one after another, with a delay after each. The tool decodes every picture, scales it to the size you choose, reduces it to the colours a GIF can hold, and writes the frames into one file with the delay and the loop setting you picked. The preview below the button shows the result exactly as a browser will play it.

Good animations usually come from photos that belong together: a burst of shots taken a fraction of a second apart, a series showing a plant growing, a step-by-step craft, the same room before and after, a product turned around on a table. The closer the photos are to each other in framing and light, the smoother the movement looks and the smaller the file becomes, because GIF stores similar frames more efficiently.

You do not need any special camera mode. Hold the phone still, or rest it on something, take several shots, and add them here. If the pictures came out slightly different in size or shape, the Shape and Crop settings line them up so the animation does not jump.

This is an images to GIF maker, not only a JPG converter. You can mix JPG photos, PNG screenshots, WebP pictures from the web, BMP files from old programs and even GIF files, of which the first frame is used. Every picture becomes one frame of the result, in the order you set.

Pictures do not need to be the same size. The first picture decides the shape of the GIF unless you choose another one, and the others are either cropped to fill that shape or fitted whole inside it with the background colour around them. This makes it easy to combine a portrait phone photo with landscape pictures without anything looking stretched.

If you only want to join pictures side by side or one under another as a single still image, Merge Images is the better tool. If what you have is a video clip rather than separate pictures, use Video to GIF instead.

This JPG to GIF converter free of charge has no sign-up, no watermark on your animation, no daily limit and no trial. You do not need to install an app or create an account, and you can make as many GIF files as you like, one after another.

Because the encoding is done by your own device rather than a paid server, there is nothing to pay for and no queue to wait in. A GIF of ten photos at 480 pixels usually takes a few seconds on a modern computer and a little longer on an older phone. Larger widths, many pictures, cross-fade and a file size limit all add work, and the tool shows its progress while it runs.

To turn multiple JPG to GIF frames, add all the pictures at once or in several rounds; new pictures are added after the ones already in the list. Each picture appears as a small card with arrows to move it earlier or later and a button to remove it.

Sort by name puts the pictures in the order of their file names, which is usually the order they were taken, because phones and cameras number their photos. Reverse turns the whole list round, handy when the pictures came in newest first. You can still fine-tune single pictures with the arrows after sorting.

Up to 200 pictures fit in one GIF. Keep in mind that every picture adds to the file size: two hundred photos at 480 pixels make a GIF of many megabytes, which some sites will not accept. For long sequences a smaller width, fewer colours or a short video may be the better choice.

Phones name photos with the date and time or a running number, so Sort by name nearly always gives the right order. Pictures downloaded from different places may have random names; for those, use the arrows, or rename the files with numbers such as 01, 02, 03 before adding them. Use two digits, because 10 sorts before 2 when names are compared as text.

Check the order in the preview before you download. If one frame is out of place, move it with the arrows and press the button again; the pictures stay loaded, so you do not need to add them again.

This JPG to GIF online free tool works in any modern browser: Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari on Windows, Mac, Linux, iPhone, iPad and Android. There is nothing to install. On a phone, tap the box and pick the photos straight from your gallery.

Phones have less memory than computers, so very long animations at large widths may be slow there. If a phone struggles, choose 320 or 240 pixels, use fewer pictures, or make the GIF on a computer. The finished file is saved to your downloads folder, or on iPhone to Files, from where you can share it.

If you want photos to GIF with speed that suits the mood, the setting to use is Speed. It says how long each picture stays on screen: 0.1, 0.2, 0.5, 1 or 2 seconds, or Custom with any value from 0.02 to 60 seconds. Next to it the tool shows how many pictures per second that means, so you can think in frames per second if you prefer.

Short delays make movement: 0.1 or 0.2 seconds per picture turns a burst of photos into a little clip. Medium delays, 0.5 to 1 second, suit a slideshow of different photos where each should be seen. Long delays of 2 seconds or more are for before-and-after pictures, steps of a recipe or text that people need time to read.

One honest warning about very fast settings: GIF stores delays in hundredths of a second, and several browsers slow down delays shorter than 0.05 seconds, often to 0.1 seconds. So a GIF set to 0.02 seconds may play at its intended speed in one program and slower in another. For smooth motion faster than about 20 pictures per second, a video is the more reliable format.

Width sets how wide the GIF is in pixels; the height follows from the shape. Choose Original to keep the size of the first picture, up to 1600 pixels, or 640, 480 (the default), 320 or 240, or Custom for any other value. For messages and forums 480 is a good balance, for small icons and signatures 240 or less is enough.

Width matters more for the file size than any other setting, because the number of pixels grows with the square of the width. A GIF 640 pixels wide has about 1.8 times the pixels of one 480 wide, and four times the pixels of one 320 wide. Halving the width roughly quarters the file size.

When your pictures have different shapes, the tool has to decide what to do with the ones that do not match. Crop to fill, the default, scales each picture until it fills the frame and cuts off what sticks out at the edges, so every frame is filled edge to edge. Fit whole picture keeps each picture complete and fills the empty space around it with the background colour.

The shape of the frame itself follows the first picture unless you choose another one under More options: Square 1:1, wide 16:9 or tall 9:16. Square is handy for profile pictures and grids, 16:9 for landscape screens and 9:16 for phone screens and stories. If you need a particular part of a single picture, Crop Image lets you cut it out precisely before adding it here.

A GIF carries a small note that tells the viewer how often to play it. The JPG to GIF loop setting writes that note: Forever, the default, plays the animation again and again for as long as it is on screen; Play once stops on the last frame; Number of times plays it as often as you type in and then stops.

Forever is what most people expect from a GIF and what chat apps and forums show best. Play once suits an animation that ends on a message, a logo or a final result, so it does not distract after it has been seen. A number such as 3 is a middle way for email signatures and web pages where endless movement can annoy readers.

Some programs ignore the loop note. A few email clients play only the first frame, some older viewers always loop, and a few apps show only one frame until the image is tapped. If the end of your animation matters, make the last frame one that makes sense on its own, because it may be the frame that stays on screen.

A GIF frame can hold at most 256 colours. When the tool turns a photo with millions of colours into a GIF, it picks the 256 that best represent the picture and maps every pixel to one of them. Under More options you can choose fewer: 128, 64, 32 or 16. Fewer colours mean a smaller file and a rougher look; for photos 128 is often hard to tell apart from 256, while 16 looks like a poster.

By default all frames share one palette built from all the pictures. That keeps the colours steady from frame to frame and makes the file smaller. Own colours for every frame builds a separate palette for each picture instead, which looks better when the pictures are very different, for example a blue sky photo followed by a red sunset, at the cost of a somewhat larger file and sometimes a slight flicker between frames.

Dithering is a trick to hide the limited colours. Instead of painting a smooth gradient with a few flat bands, it mixes pixels of neighbouring colours in a fine pattern that the eye blends together. Skies, skin and shadows look much smoother with dithering on, which is why it is the default.

The downside is the file size. The fine pattern is exactly the kind of noise that GIF compression handles poorly, so a dithered GIF is often 20 to 40 percent larger than the same GIF without dithering. Turn dithering off when you need a small file, when the pictures are flat graphics, screenshots or text, or when the speckled pattern bothers you. With dithering off, smooth gradients show visible bands instead.

Cross-fade adds four in-between frames between each pair of pictures, in which one picture slowly turns into the next. The result looks softer and more like a video slideshow than a hard cut. It works especially well for slideshows of different photos and for before-and-after pictures.

Because it adds frames, cross-fade makes the file larger, often three to five times, and the blended frames are full of mixed colours that need more of the palette. Use it with a smaller width or fewer colours if size matters. The fade frames are short, so the total length grows only a little.

Boomerang plays the pictures forward and then backward, so the animation moves to the end and smoothly returns to the start instead of jumping back. It suits motions such as a swing, a wave, a pour or a head turn, where a sudden jump at the loop point would look odd.

Boomerang nearly doubles the number of frames, and with it the file size, although the extra frames repeat existing pictures. Combine it with Forever looping for the familiar back-and-forth effect.

JPG photos have no transparency, so for them the background colour only matters with Fit whole picture, where it fills the space around pictures that do not match the shape. Pick white, black or any colour that suits the page the GIF will be shown on.

PNG and WebP pictures can have transparent areas. With Keep transparency on, those areas stay see-through in the GIF. GIF transparency is all or nothing for each pixel, though: a pixel is either fully see-through or fully solid. Soft edges and shadows that fade out in a PNG become hard edges in the GIF, sometimes with a thin fringe. For the cleanest result, set the background colour to the colour of the page the GIF will sit on and leave Keep transparency off.

People often ask for JPG to GIF high quality and expect the GIF to look as good as the photos. It is worth being honest: it cannot. A GIF frame has at most 256 colours, so photos with smooth gradients show slight banding or the fine grain of dithering, and the format is far less efficient than modern video at storing photos.

What you can do is get the best a GIF allows. Keep 256 colours and dithering on, use Own colours for every frame when the pictures differ a lot, choose a width no larger than the GIF will be shown at, and leave the file size limit on No limit. Start from the original photos rather than copies sent through a messaging app, because those are already smaller and compressed twice.

Making the GIF wider than it will be shown does not improve it; the browser scales it down and you pay for the extra pixels in file size. For a chat message 480 pixels is plenty, for a full-width banner on a website 800 to 1000 can make sense.

Many sites limit the size of uploaded pictures, so the tool has a File size limit setting: No limit, 1 MB, 100 KB, 50 KB or Custom with any number of kilobytes. With a limit set, the tool makes the GIF, checks its size and, if it is too big, tries again with fewer colours first and then with smaller frames, up to ten tries.

If the limit still cannot be reached after ten tries, the tool tells you so and gives you the smallest version it made, so you can decide whether to use it, remove some pictures or loosen the limit. It never quietly hands you a file that is larger than you asked for.

Getting JPG to GIF under 100KB is very possible, but it means a small GIF with few frames. A hundred kilobytes is about the size of one ordinary photo at phone-screen size, and a GIF has to fit all its frames into that. The File size limit setting does most of the work: choose 100 KB and the tool lowers the colours and the size until it fits.

You get a better result if you help it. Use 5 to 10 pictures rather than 30, choose 240 or 320 pixels wide, set 64 colours and turn dithering off, and leave cross-fade and boomerang off. Photos that are similar to each other, such as a burst of shots of the same scene, fit far more frames into the limit than a slideshow of different places.

A JPG to GIF 50 KB limit is tight and common in email signatures, forum avatars and some upload forms. Expect a small, simple animation: 3 to 6 pictures, 160 to 240 pixels wide, 16 to 32 colours, dithering off. The tool will shrink further on its own if needed, but you keep more control by choosing these values first.

Pictures with large calm areas, such as a logo on a plain background, a product on white or a short piece of text, pack much better than detailed landscapes. If the result looks too rough, try fewer pictures before fewer colours: three clean frames usually look better than ten blurry ones. For a file that is already a GIF and only slightly too big, Compress GIF can trim it further.

GIF is not the most efficient format for moving pictures, and it is fair to say so. A short MP4 video of the same photos is often five to ten times smaller and shows full colour without banding. Animated WebP is usually much smaller than GIF too and supports soft transparency. GIF wins on one thing: it plays almost everywhere, including places that do not allow video, such as email signatures, many forums and image upload fields.

So use GIF when the place you are sharing to expects a picture rather than a video, and when the animation is short. For long slideshows, large sizes or anything with sound, a video is the better choice. If you already have a GIF and need it in another format, GIF to WebP makes an animated WebP, and GIF to PNG or GIF to JPG take out single frames as still pictures.

Pictures in the right order, checked with Sort by name, Reverse and the arrows.

Speed chosen for the job: fast for motion, slow for slideshows and text.

Width no larger than the GIF will be shown at.

Crop to fill or Fit whole picture, and the shape you want.

Loop set to Forever, Play once or a number.

File size limit set if the place you share to has one.

Preview watched once before downloading.

Your pictures are not uploaded. The page loads the tool once, and from then on your photos are read, scaled and turned into a GIF by your own browser. Nothing is sent to our server or anyone else's, and nothing is stored after you close the page.

That matters for family photos, pictures of documents and work you have not published yet. You can even disconnect from the internet after the page has loaded and the tool will keep working.

When you press the button, the browser decodes each picture and draws it onto a canvas at the width and shape you chose, with Crop to fill or Fit whole picture. If cross-fade is on, it blends the in-between frames; if boomerang is on, it adds the frames in reverse.

Our GIF encoder then builds the palette, either one shared palette for all frames or one per frame, maps every pixel to it with or without dithering, packs the pixels with LZW compression and writes the frames, the delays and the loop note into one GIF file. The heavy work runs in a background worker, so the page stays responsive. With a file size limit set, these steps repeat with fewer colours or smaller frames until the file fits or ten tries are used up.

Take the photos for an animation with the phone held still, ideally resting on something, so only the subject moves. Small shifts of the camera look like shaking in the GIF.

Use photos with the same light. A cloud passing between shots changes the brightness and makes the animation flicker.

Fewer, well-chosen frames beat many similar ones. Ten pictures at 0.2 seconds often look as smooth as thirty at 0.07 seconds and make a much smaller file.

Choose the width the GIF will be shown at, not larger. A bigger GIF does not look sharper when it is scaled down, it only loads more slowly.

Make the first and last frames count. Some apps show only the first frame until tapped, and Play once stops on the last.

Before you post, open the downloaded file in a browser tab to see it as others will.

Share the GIF straight from your downloads folder or gallery. If it turns out a little too large for a site, Compress GIF reduces it without making it again. To use one frame as a still picture, GIF to PNG and GIF to JPG save the frames separately, and GIF to WebP makes a smaller animated WebP for websites.

To prepare the photos before animating them, Resize Image makes them smaller, Crop Image cuts out the part you need and JPG to PNG turns a photo into a PNG. All are listed under Image Tools.