Convert GIF to WebP
Convert GIF files to WebP entirely in your browser. Google's modern web format — JPG-quality photos at PNG-style flexibility, much smaller. Drop your GIFs below — nothing is uploaded.
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About GIF → WebP
Why convert GIF to WebP?
WebP produces dramatically smaller files than GIF for the same image, which is the main reason to convert. WebP escapes GIF's 256-colour palette limit and gives you full 24-bit colour. verto converts the first frame only — animation is not preserved.
About GIF
GIF is one of the oldest image formats still in active use, famous for short looping animations. It is limited to a 256-colour palette per frame, which makes it a poor fit for photographs but acceptable for flat graphics and short clips. In verto, GIF is accepted as an input only — animation is flattened to the first frame, because the modern outputs (JPG, PNG, WebP, AVIF) are encoded one frame at a time by the browser's Canvas API.
About WebP
WebP is a modern image format from Google designed to replace both JPG and PNG on the web. It supports lossy and lossless compression, an alpha channel, and even animation, while typically producing files 25–35% smaller than JPG at equivalent visual quality. Every up-to-date browser (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge) renders WebP natively, which makes it the default win for Core Web Vitals and bandwidth bills.
What you're converting between
A short primer on both formats so the trade-offs are obvious before you hit Convert.
GIF
SourceGraphics Interchange Format · introduced 1987
GIF is one of the oldest image formats still in active use, famous for short looping animations. It is limited to a 256-colour palette per frame, which makes it a poor fit for photographs but acceptable for flat graphics and short clips. In verto, GIF is accepted as an input only — animation is flattened to the first frame, because the modern outputs (JPG, PNG, WebP, AVIF) are encoded one frame at a time by the browser's Canvas API.
Strengths
- Universal browser and OS support
- Supports simple animation and 1-bit transparency
Trade-offs
- Capped at 256 colours per frame — terrible for photos
- Larger than WebP/AVIF for the same content
- In verto: first frame only when converting (animation is dropped)
WebP
TargetWebP · introduced 2010
WebP is a modern image format from Google designed to replace both JPG and PNG on the web. It supports lossy and lossless compression, an alpha channel, and even animation, while typically producing files 25–35% smaller than JPG at equivalent visual quality. Every up-to-date browser (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge) renders WebP natively, which makes it the default win for Core Web Vitals and bandwidth bills.
Strengths
- 25–35% smaller than JPG at the same visual quality
- Supports transparency, unlike JPG
- Native support in every modern browser
Trade-offs
- Some older tools, print kiosks and email clients still reject it
- Lossy WebP can soften text and hard edges at low quality
- Slower to encode than JPG
Popular conversions
Each link below opens the converter with the right output pre-selected.
- GIF to JPGUniversal compatibility
- GIF to PNGLossless with transparency
- GIF to AVIFBest compression for the modern web
- JPG to WebPSmaller files, transparency kept
- PNG to WebPSmaller files, transparency kept
- AVIF to WebPSmaller files, transparency kept
- JPG to PNGLossless re-encode
- JPG to AVIFBest compression for the modern web
Supported formats
JPG, PNG, WebP and AVIF cover almost every web and design workflow. GIF input is accepted but only the first frame is used. Conversions run entirely in your browser.
TIFF, SVG, HEIC, RAW, PSD, AI, EPS and PDF are not supported in this version. Please export to JPG or PNG first if your source is in one of those formats.
| Format | Input | Output | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| JPG | Yes | Yes | No transparency |
| PNG | Yes | Yes | Lossless, transparency |
| WebP | Yes | Yes | Good default for web |
| AVIF | Yes | Yes | Browser-dependent encoder |
| GIF | Yes | No | First frame only on input |
| TIFF | No | No | Not supported (browser-only) |
| SVG | No | No | Rejected for security |
| HEIC | No | No | Export to JPG/PNG first |
Frequently asked questions
Your files never leave your device
verto is a static page. Every conversion happens entirely inside your browser — there is no server-side processing, no upload, no temporary file, no cache. When you close this tab, every file is gone.
- No account required.
- No permanent storage, on the server or in your browser.
- No caching of conversion responses.
- Image metadata (EXIF, GPS) is stripped by default.