WebP to GIF Converter
A tool, forum or old program wants a GIF, but your picture is a WebP. This page decodes the WebP and saves its first frame as a GIF on your device. Be aware that the result is a still image, not an animation, and that GIF is limited to a small palette of colours.
How to convert WEBP to GIF
- Add your WEBP files by dropping them, clicking the drop zone or pasting.
- The output format is already set to GIF. Adjust quality or size if you need to.
- Press Convert and compare the original and new size for each file.
- Download each file or all of them as a ZIP.
When to convert, and when not to
- A platform or program only accepts GIF files for a still picture.
- You have a simple graphic, such as a logo or diagram, that suits a limited palette.
- You need a GIF with a transparent background from a transparent WebP.
- Do not use this for photographs or for animations. Photos lose smooth colour in GIF, and an animated WebP will not stay animated.
What changes
- Only the first frame is converted, so the output is always a single still picture.
- The GIF uses 255 colours plus one transparent colour, so gradients and photos can show visible banding.
- Transparency is kept as fully see-through or fully solid pixels; soft edges are not preserved.
- Metadata is not copied.
- Use Resize if you want smaller pixel dimensions.
What a still GIF from a WebP gives you
GIF is best known for short looping animations, but the format can also hold a single picture. This converter creates exactly that: one frame, taken from the first image in your WebP. If the WebP was animated, the later frames are ignored.
That makes the page useful when something specifically demands the .gif extension and you only care about a still image. If you wanted to keep the movement, you need a different tool, because animation is not part of this converter.
If you need a GIF of a specific moment of an animated WebP, extract that moment as a still image first with a screenshot or a frame-grab tool, then convert the still here. The converter itself always takes the first frame and has no timeline, which keeps it simple and makes its behaviour easy to predict from the page title.
Colours: what the 255-colour limit does to your picture
A GIF can only use a small fixed palette. This tool chooses 255 representative colours from your picture and reserves one more for transparency. Flat artwork with a handful of colours usually comes through almost unchanged.
Photographs and smooth gradients are harder. Colours must be mapped to the nearest palette entry, which can create visible steps in skies or skin tones. If your picture looks rough, try WebP, PNG or JPG instead, which do not have that limit.
A good way to judge whether GIF will work is to think about how many distinct colours your picture really has. A logo with a few solid colours is ideal. A sunset photo is not. If you are not sure, convert the file and compare the result with the original at full size, paying attention to the smooth transitions.
Transparency in GIF is all or nothing
WebP can store partial transparency, such as the soft edge of a drop shadow. GIF cannot. Each pixel is either fully visible or fully transparent, so soft edges turn into hard ones and shadows may look rough or disappear.
For a clean result, start from artwork with crisp edges, or accept that the outline will be sharper than in the WebP. If soft transparency matters, PNG is the format to choose.
If the transparent edges look rough after conversion, try placing the GIF on the page background it will really be used on and judge it there. Sometimes the outline is fine in context. If it is not, go back to the source artwork, export it with a hard edge on purpose, or switch to PNG, which handles soft transparency correctly.
Privacy: your files stay on your device
- The tool decodes, resizes and encodes your pictures with your browser. The files are never sent to a server.
- To check it yourself: open the browser developer tools (F12), open the Network tab, convert a file, and look for any request that carries your image. You will see none.
Frequently asked questions
Will my animated WebP stay animated?
No. Only the first frame is converted, and the GIF is a still image.
Why do the colours look different?
GIF uses a limited palette of 255 colours plus one for transparency, so smooth gradients can show banding.
Does the GIF keep a transparent background?
Yes, but only as fully see-through or fully solid pixels. Soft edges are not kept.
Is there a quality slider?
No. GIF is not a lossy format in this tool, and the colour limit is fixed.
Is the file uploaded to a server?
No. Everything runs locally in your browser.