--- title: "Video to GIF converter, free, no upload | Kuro" description: "Turn a stretch of an MP4, MOV or WebM into a looping GIF at the width and frame rate you pick. Free, in your browser, no upload." canonical_url: "https://meetkuro.com/tools/video-to-gif/" locale: "en" tool: "video-to-gif" --- # Video to GIF Drop a video, pick the seconds you want, and get a GIF that loops. It's made in your browser, so the video is never uploaded. Your file never leaves this device. Everything runs in your browser. [Video to GIF](https://meetkuro.com/tools/video-to-gif/) ## Made for - [MP4 to GIF](https://meetkuro.com/tools/video-to-gif/mp4-to-gif/) - [GIF for Discord (under 20 MB)](https://meetkuro.com/tools/video-to-gif/discord/) ## How it works 1. Drop your video. 2. Set where the GIF starts and ends, then pick a width and a frame rate. 3. Press Make GIF and download it. ## Questions ### How big will the GIF be? That depends on the picture, so nobody can say exactly before it's made. A GIF stores every frame whole, with no motion compression, so its size goes roughly with width × height × number of frames. The tool says how many frames it will write before you press, and while it works it shows the size the finished file is heading for. Halving the frame rate roughly halves the file; narrowing it helps more: in one test, a noisy 30-second clip at 20 fps made a 64.5 MB GIF at 640 pixels wide and a 19.3 MB one at 320. ### Why do some colours look banded? A GIF frame holds at most 256 colours. Each frame here gets its own palette of up to 256, picked from that frame, which keeps screen recordings and flat graphics crisp. Smooth gradients, like skies and skin in low light, can show steps. ### Does the GIF have sound? No. The GIF format has no sound track. To keep the sound, send the clip as an MP4: Compress a video makes one small enough to share. ### How long can it be? Up to 30 seconds, taken from anywhere in a video of up to 2 GB. It starts on the first five seconds; change the start and end to pick another stretch. ### Does my video get uploaded? No. The frames are decoded and the GIF is written in your browser, on your device. ### Which browsers does it work in? Current Chrome, Edge, Safari and Firefox, as long as the browser can play the video in your file. Making a GIF needs no video encoder, so it also works in a browser that can't make MP4 video. ## Kuro In Kuro you make the moving picture itself: a short clip from a few words or from a still. [Make a clip in Kuro](https://app.meetkuro.com/create?type=shorts&utm_source=tools&utm_medium=tool&utm_campaign=video-to-gif) — Kuro opens the clip composer. ## More free tools - [Frame grabber](https://meetkuro.com/tools/video-frame-grabber.md): Save any frame of a video as a full-quality image, or let it pick thumbnails. - [Image resizer](https://meetkuro.com/tools/image-resizer.md): Make a picture smaller or larger, in pixels or by a percentage. - [Image converter](https://meetkuro.com/tools/image-converter.md): Turn HEIC, WebP, PNG or JPG pictures into JPG, PNG or WebP. - [Compress a video](https://meetkuro.com/tools/compress-video.md): Make a video small enough for Discord, email or WhatsApp. - [Resize a video](https://meetkuro.com/tools/resize-video.md): Turn a video into 9:16 for TikTok, Reels and Shorts, or 4:5, 1:1 or 16:9. - [Crop a video](https://meetkuro.com/tools/crop-video.md): Cut a video down to the part you want to keep, at its own size. --- ## About Kuro Kuro is an AI picture studio: prompt-driven images, clips, voice-overs and music, and storyboard-backed films with consistent characters across every scene. Agents connect over MCP and can generate directly: ``` claude mcp add kuro https://api.meetkuro.com/mcp --transport http ``` The app is at https://app.meetkuro.com and requires an account. Each guide, model page, comparison and free tool page on this site (not a tool's variants, and not the index pages) has a Markdown twin at its own URL plus `.md`, and so do /benchmarks/, the English /agents/ page (as /agents.md) and the MCP tool reference. Free video tools: https://meetkuro.com/tools/