Does my MOV file get uploaded anywhere?

No. The QuickTime frames are decoded and the GIF is assembled in your browser. The .mov never leaves your device, and the page keeps working offline once it has loaded.

Will MOV files from my iPhone or Mac work?

Usually yes. Most iPhone, iPad, and Mac recordings save as H.264 or HEVC inside a .mov, and the tool reads whatever frames your browser can play. If a clip will not preview, your browser cannot decode that codec and the conversion will not run.

What happens to the sound in my QuickTime clip?

It is dropped. GIF has no audio track, so only the picture is kept. Keep the original .mov if you need the sound.

Why did my GIF turn out so large?

GIF stores every frame as a full palette image with no motion compression, so a few seconds of video can dwarf the source .mov. Trim the clip, lower the frame rate, and shrink the width to keep the file down.

Why does the GIF look grainier than the MOV?

Each frame is reduced to at most 256 colors, the format's ceiling. The gradients and fine shading a phone camera captures get flattened into visible bands. That is a GIF limit, not a flaw in your recording.

Does it pick the width and end time for me?

When the .mov loads, the width fills in from the source (capped at 640px) and the end fills in with the full duration. Adjust either before clicking Create GIF. Frame rate runs 5 to 24 fps and width 32 to 1280px.

MOV to GIF

Turns a QuickTime MOV clip into an animated GIF at the frame rate and width you set. GIF maps everything to 256 colors.

What this does

MOV is the QuickTime container Apple devices record to, and a GIF can only hold flat palette frames. This tool decodes your .mov clip, resamples the picture to the frame rate and width you choose, trims it to the start and end you set, and reduces every frame to a 256-color palette before writing a single looping .gif. The conversion runs on the frames your browser can already play back from the file.

Because GIF has no inter-frame compression, each frame is stored whole, so longer clips, higher frame rates, and wider output all push the file size up quickly. The QuickTime audio track is dropped, since GIF carries no sound, and smooth gradients from a phone camera can show banding once they are squeezed into 256 colors.

How it works

1Drop your .mov file or pick it from your device. Clips straight off an iPhone, iPad, or Mac work.
2Set the frame rate and width, and trim the clip with the start and end fields if you only need part of it.
3Click Create GIF, watch the preview, then download the .gif.

Built with open source

Mediabunny — Converts and edits video and audio in the browser via WebCodecs. Add-on encoders cover MP3, AAC, and FLAC. · MPL-2.0
gifenc — Fast GIF encoding with color quantization. · MIT

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