Convert a video to a looping GIF on your phone

Overview

Pick a video and set the start point, then choose how long the GIF should run, from 2 to 15 seconds. Three widths, 320, 480 or 640 pixels, and three frame rates, 10, 15 or 20 fps, let you balance smoothness against file size: 480 px at 15 fps is a sensible default for chats, 640 at 20 for a web page where it needs to look good. The GIF is set to loop forever and has no sound, as the format requires.

GIF can only show 256 colours per frame, which is why many converters produce banding and grainy noise. iEdit builds an optimised palette from the clip itself, so skies, skin and gradients keep as much of their colour as the format allows. The frames are decoded and quantised on your device, nothing is uploaded, and the finished GIF goes to My files, where it animates in the viewer. The source video is left as it is.

Make a GIF when a reaction, a demo or a short loop needs to play automatically wherever it is pasted: in a chat, a forum post, a wiki, an e-mail that will not play video. Keep it short and modest in size and it will load everywhere. For a looping video with sound and full colour, Loop video is the alternative. Everything happens on your phone, so it works offline.