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WebP to GIF converter

Convert WEBP images to GIF format

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All processing happens in your browser. No data is sent to any server.

Read this before converting: if your WebP is animated, the GIF you get here will not be. The conversion draws the image onto a canvas, which yields one frame, and the encoder writes exactly that one frame with no delay or loop information. For a still WebP the conversion is straightforward, with one significant change - colour. Each pixel is mapped to the nearest entry in a fixed 216-shade palette with no dithering, so illustrations and flat graphics hold up while photographs pick up visible banding.

Key facts about WebP to GIF converter

Key facts about WebP to GIF converter
AnimationNot carried over. An animated WebP contributes its first frame and nothing else - there is no frame list or looping block in the output.
Palette216 fixed colours on a six-level cube per channel, identical for every image, so brand colours are rounded to the nearest available shade.
DitheringNone. Each pixel takes its closest palette entry, which keeps flat regions clean and makes gradients step.
TransparencyDropped. No palette index is reserved as transparent, and only the colour channels are read, so alpha areas become black.
QualityThe colour reduction is the only loss added - the underlying detail is whatever the WebP decoder produced, unchanged.
CompressionLZW over the palette indices, written in the page, in a GIF89a file with a 256-entry global colour table.
Size behaviourFlat artwork can land close to the WebP; photographs typically come out several times larger, since indexed colour compresses noise poorly.
Compatibility gainedGIF is accepted everywhere - old forums, wikis, email clients, chat apps and every browser ever shipped.
Better alternativesPNG for lossless stills with alpha, JPG for photographs, both universally supported and both far better suited than GIF.

What happens to your file

The WebP decoder is the one in your browser; the GIF encoder is JavaScript on this page. After decoding, the canvas pixels are read out, each is matched to a palette entry by nearest RGB distance, and the LZW coder emits the header, colour table and image blocks into a Blob. No frame extraction service, no WebAssembly module and no upload is involved, so the whole conversion works with the network disconnected.

About this tool

  1. 1

    Check whether the source is animated

    Open the .webp in a browser tab first. If it moves, this conversion will keep only the opening frame.

  2. 2

    Add the file

    Only .webp is accepted here, up to twenty at a time.

  3. 3

    Note the palette warning

    The amber banner states the 256-colour ceiling before conversion; for photographic sources that is the limiting factor.

  4. 4

    Convert and inspect

    Look at the smooth areas of the result. If the stepping is too visible, PNG is the better target for a still image.

Specs & compatibility
Input and outputTakes .webp only (image/webp) and returns .gif with the image/gif type; any other extension is refused before decoding.
Conversion pathWEBP to GIF runs in three steps: an <img> element decodes the WebP and passes frame one to the canvas; the pixels land on a 2D canvas in this tab; then getImageData feeds a palette mapper and an LZW encoder that live in the page.
Browser supportThe WebP side needs Chrome 32, Firefox 65, Edge 18 or Safari 14 to decode, while writing the GIF needs nothing from the browser, the encoder shipping inside the page.
Controls for this pairNo quality slider, GIF not being a lossy target here, so the max-dimension presets from 3840 down to 200 px are the only way to hold the GIF down in size against the WEBP.
Batch, caps and namingTwenty WEBP files per run at 500 MB each; one result downloads as a single GIF, several as converted-gif-files.zip, zipped by JSZip 3.10 in page memory.
Device ceilingThe canvas caps it: past roughly 16,384 px a side Chromium refuses the bitmap and iPhone Safari gives up sooner, so an oversized WEBP fails before any GIF bytes exist.
  • Vector-style artwork exported as WebP converts cleanly, because its handful of flat colours survives palette matching intact.
  • Transparent WebP stickers and badges become black-backed squares here - convert them to PNG instead to keep the cut-out.
  • If you need a moving GIF, you need a tool that reads every frame and its delay; a single-frame conversion cannot reconstruct a timeline.
  • Reducing the size with a preset before converting improves LZW compression and makes any banding less obvious.
  • Uploading to an old forum, wiki or ticketing system whose attachment filter allows only .gif.
  • Producing a deliberately indexed, retro-styled still from a modern web asset.
  • Converting a simple flat-colour graphic for a legacy template that was built before PNG was common.
No. The conversion captures the image as a canvas draws it, which is one frame, and the encoder writes a single-image GIF with no graphic control extensions or Netscape loop block. Converting an animation properly requires demuxing every frame with its delay and rebuilding the timeline, which this page does not do.
Because every pixel is snapped to the nearest of 216 fixed values, at even steps of 51 per channel. A brand colour that sits between two of those steps is moved to whichever is closer. The palette is not computed from your image, so there is no way for an unusual shade to be represented exactly.
It is gone. GIF can flag one palette index as transparent, but this encoder does not reserve one, and it reads only the red, green and blue channels. Transparent WebP pixels hold zero in all three, so they appear black. PNG is the right target when the alpha channel needs to survive.
Rarely. WebP is a modern codec and GIF's LZW over indexed colour is not competitive on anything detailed. A simple graphic with few colours can come close or occasionally win, but a photograph will usually produce a GIF several times the size of the source.
Only when a system demands the extension. PNG is equally universal, lossless and keeps full colour and transparency; JPG handles photographs at a fraction of the size. GIF's remaining advantage is animation, and that is exactly what this conversion cannot provide.

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