Examples
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AfterEdit GIF online without uploading it
Pick the edits, press Apply Edits, download one file.
This GIF editor puts the common edits of an animated GIF on one screen. Crop with a draggable box, rotate by 90, 180 or 270 degrees, flip horizontally or vertically, resize to a width, change the speed, play it in reverse and add top and bottom text.
You choose what you need, press Apply Edits and get one GIF to download. The file is read and written by your browser, so it is never sent to our server. There is no watermark, no sign-up and no limit on how many files you edit.
It edits the GIF as a whole. It does not open a frame list, so there is no deleting, reordering or drawing on single frames.
Made for
- Reaction GIFs
- Meme captions
- Square avatars
- Chat stickers
- Slide animations
- Docs and blog posts
How to use the GIF editor in four steps
- 1
Add your GIF
Click the file picker or drop the GIF on the preview. It loads in your browser and plays right away so you can see what you are changing.
- 2
Set the edits you want
Drag the crop box (Free, 1:1, 4:3, 16:9 or 9:16, or type the numbers), then rotate, flip, set a new width, pick a speed from 0.5x to 2x, tick reverse and type the top or bottom text. Leave the rest at default.
- 3
Press Apply Edits
All the chosen edits run in one go. The result plays in the page with its size in pixels, frame count, length and file size before and after.
- 4
Download or start over
Download saves the edited GIF. Start over returns to the picker, and your settings stay for the next file.
Online GIF editor: one run or frame by frame?
Pick by the kind of change you need to make.
| This GIF editor | Frame-by-frame editors | One tool per edit | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Best for | Whole-GIF changes in one export | Changing single frames | One edit, such as only a crop |
| Crop, rotate, flip, resize | All on one screen | Usually included | Each on its own page |
| Speed and reverse | 0.5x to 2x, plus reverse | Frame delay settings, reorder | Separate tools |
| Text | Top and bottom, same on every frame | Often per frame | Separate tool |
| Delete, reorder or draw on frames | Not available | Yes | Not available |
| Where the file goes | Stays in your browser | Depends on the tool | Depends on the tool |
| Extras | No watermark, no sign-up | Varies | Varies |
What combining edits looks like on a real GIF
We tested one stack of edits on a 640 by 360 GIF with 150 frames and about 19.9 MB. A 1:1 crop, a 90 degree rotation, a flip, a 240 px width, 2x speed, reverse and a caption went through in one run. The result was a 240 by 240 GIF of about 4.89 MB, finished in 3.5 seconds in Chrome on a Mac.
In a separate test, reverse on its own gave frames that matched the source pixel for pixel. Your time depends on your device and the size of the GIF.
Limits of this GIF editor before you start
Reverse keeps every frame in memory, so a huge GIF can be refused. A 1920 by 1080 GIF with 90 frames needed more than 600 MB and the editor said it was too large. Resize or crop it first, or leave reverse off.
Text is the same on every frame, at the top and bottom only, with no timing and no free placement. Adding text re-encodes the colors, so a captioned GIF can come out larger than the original. At 2x some frames can be dropped when their delay would fall under 20 ms. The GIF Compressor shrinks a file afterward.