GIF Editor — Edit Any Animated GIF in Your Browser
Open an existing GIF, rework it frame by frame, and export a cleaner result — all in the browser, nothing leaves your device.
A gif editor built for existing GIFs — open a .gif file, work directly on its frames, and export a better version. Drop in an animated GIF and you get a visual timeline where you can reorder or delete frames; trim the animation by setting a start and end frame; adjust the global frame rate (FPS); drag a crop box to zoom and reframe the canvas; apply one-tap filter presets; tune the palette; and export as a clean looping GIF with no upload and no watermark. The sections below walk through the three-step editing flow, explain which controls change what, break down how frame delay and FPS interact, and answer the questions editors ask most. To resize to exact pixel dimensions, use the resize GIF tool. For a broader look at every GIF utility on this site, start at the GIF tools hub.
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How to edit a GIF
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Open your GIF in the editor
Drag a .gif file onto the drop zone or click to browse. The editor decodes every frame of the animated GIF in the browser and lays them out on the timeline — no upload to any server.
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Reorder, delete, or retime frames
Drag frames along the filmstrip timeline to reorder them, or click × on any frame to delete it. Use the trim controls to set a start and end frame, shortening the loop. Drag the global FPS slider to retime the whole animation at once — the editor converts between frame delay and FPS automatically.
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Apply edits and export your GIF
Drag a crop box on the canvas to zoom and reframe to a focus area, pick a one-tap filter preset, tune the palette, and hit Export. The finished looping GIF saves straight to your device — clean, unbranded, and ready to share.
Why GIFMaker
Frame filmstrip timeline
Every frame of the animated GIF appears as a thumbnail on the filmstrip. Drag frames to reorder them and click × to delete unwanted ones. The canvas plays a live looping animated preview of the GIF as you edit — reorder frames, retime, or apply a filter and the playback loop updates in real time at your chosen FPS — so you can judge the loop and timing before you export.
Crop and zoom the canvas
Drag a box on the canvas to crop and reframe to a focus area — the editor applies a 1–3× zoom crop across all frames at once, so the loop stays intact. For a fixed-rectangle crop with exact pixel output, try the [crop GIF](crop-gif) tool.
One-tap filter presets and effects
Apply filter presets like Mono, Noir, or Warm across all frames in a single tap — Mono and Noir give a grayscale look; Warm, Instant, and Chrome give a warm or faded tone. Fine-tune with sliders for Brightness, Contrast, Saturation, Warmth, Vignette, and Sharpen, or layer in effects like Pixelate, CRT, or VHS.
Nothing uploaded, nothing watermarked
The GIF editor runs entirely in your browser. Your file never leaves your device, there is no server, no account gate, and no watermark stamped on the exported GIF.
What can you actually change in a GIF editor?
A browser-based GIF editor lets you reorder or delete individual frames on a visual filmstrip timeline, trim the animation by setting start and end frames, set a global frame rate in FPS, drag a crop box to zoom and reframe the canvas, apply one-tap filter presets like Mono or Warm, add text or stickers, and tune the palette before you export the finished loop — all without uploading anything to a server.
Think of it as a non-destructive trim pass on the GIF itself rather than a new-creation workflow. To lay a readable caption across every frame, use the GIF maker with captions. To resize a GIF to exact pixel dimensions, use the dedicated resize GIF tool. If you need to build an animated GIF from scratch from video, the web GIF creator is the right starting point. For a fully free option with no account required at any step, see the free GIF maker.
How do frame delay and FPS interact when you edit a GIF?
Frame delay — measured in hundredths of a second and embedded in each frame's GIF metadata — is the native speed control in the GIF format; FPS is simply 100 divided by that delay value, so a 10 cs delay equals 10 FPS and a 4 cs delay equals 25 FPS.
The editor exposes a single global FPS slider (1–30 fps) that retimes the whole animation at once: drag it and the editor writes a uniform frame delay across every frame. This is the cleanest way to control animation speed — change one value, every frame updates. If you want to create a new animated GIF from scratch rather than edit an existing one, the GIF maker is the place to start.
Does editing a GIF reduce its quality?
Editing a GIF in the browser re-encodes the output, but quality loss is minimal when you keep the same palette depth and avoid scaling the canvas up; cropping, reordering frames, and deleting frames are effectively lossless operations because they do not re-quantize existing pixel data unless you explicitly lower the palette or apply a lossy filter.
If file size is the concern rather than visual quality, the right move after editing is to run the result through the GIF compressor for a hard size target, or through optimize GIF to fine-tune dithering and palette reduction without a blanket quality cut. Both tools accept the exported GIF directly. For the full suite of GIF utilities, browse the GIF tools hub.
Related tools
Crop GIF — Trim the Frame, Keep the Loop
Drag a crop box once and it applies to every frame — cut the edges, reframe the shot, and the animation keeps looping.
Resize GIF — Exact Pixels or Percent, Ratio Locked
Set a new width and height in pixels or scale by percentage, keep the aspect ratio locked, and let a quality-preserving resampler scale every frame without the blur.
Optimize GIF — Tune Palette, Dither & Frames by Hand
Turn each optimization knob yourself — palette size, dithering pattern, frame removal — and a before/after preview shows exactly what it costs before you download.