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WebP to GIF Converter

Animated WebP is what most sites now serve where a GIF used to be, and almost nowhere accepts one back. The trap is that a plain image converter will hand you the first frame and call it done. PhotoTray runs this through the video engine, so the animation actually survives.

Windows 10/11 (x64) · Free · No account

Drop in your filesGIFs land in the folder you pick, with every frame and the timing preserved.

Why convert

Why convert WebP to GIF

GIF is the format that still works everywhere an animation needs to go — chat apps, forums, older platforms, email, presentation software. Animated WebP is smaller and better in every technical respect, and almost none of those places will take one. So the conversion runs backwards from what you would expect: to a worse format, for the sake of being accepted.

  • An animation saved from a website that will not post anywhere.
  • Getting a reaction clip into a chat app or forum that only takes GIF.
  • Putting an animation into a presentation or a document.
  • Converting a folder of saved animations in one pass.

How it works

Convert WebP to GIF in a few clicks

  1. 1

    Drop your WebP files in

    PhotoTray detects which ones are animated. Still images are converted normally by the Image Converter instead.

  2. 2

    Choose GIF

    Every frame and the frame timing are carried across, with the palette chosen to suit the content.

  3. 3

    Get animated GIFs back

    In the folder you chose, with the WebP originals untouched.

The details

WebP to GIF, at a glance

Engine
ffmpeg — the video engine, not the image one
Animation
Every frame and the timing preserved
Colours
Reduced to GIF's 256-colour palette, chosen per file
File size
Larger than the WebP — GIF compresses animation poorly
Where it runs
Your own PC — nothing is uploaded
Limits
None — no file count, no file-size cap, no watermark
Platform
Windows 10/11 (x64)

Questions

WebP to GIF Converter, answered

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This conversion is part of the full tool — which handles the other formats in the same batch, and can keep doing it on a folder you choose.

Windows 10/11 (x64) · Free · No account

Runs on your PC · nothing uploaded · no watermark, no file limit