Image to GIF — Stack Photos Into One Animation

Add your still images, drag the thumbnails into the order you want, set a per-frame delay or playback speed, and export — the studio stitches each photo into one frame of a looping animated GIF. JPG, PNG, WebP, and HEIC stills all stack into the same sequence.

The order is yours to control: the frames sit as draggable thumbnails, so you arrange the sequence before rendering rather than accepting whatever order the files imported in. Set the frame delay to pace it — a long delay holds each still like a slideshow, a short one at a higher frame rate plays as motion. Because the work runs through WebAssembly in your browser, the whole batch is assembled locally and nothing uploads. If your source is footage rather than a set of stills, use video to GIF instead; this tool and its sibling photo converters all live in the image-to-GIF toolkit.

Technically two — a GIF only needs at least two frames to animate, and each still you add becomes one frame. In practice, somewhere between five and a few dozen photos gives a slideshow enough beats to feel deliberate, while a smooth-motion sequence wants more frames played at a faster delay.

There's no hard upper limit beyond your browser's memory, since the stack is assembled on your device. More frames mean a longer, heavier GIF, so the per-frame delay matters as much as the count: a dozen stills at a half-second delay is a calm slideshow, while thirty frames at 80 ms reads as fluid animation. Two photos toggling back and forth even make a clean before-and-after loop. If the finished GIF ends up heavier than you'd like, send it through the GIF compressor to bring the file size down without redoing the sequence.

JPG, PNG, WebP, and HEIC stills all stack into the same animation, and you can mix formats in one sequence — a few PNGs beside a batch of iPhone HEIC photos is fine. Each format is decoded in-browser, so you never convert the stills to a common type first.

PNG and WebP both carry transparency, which the GIF preserves as it builds each frame, so a logo or cutout keeps its see-through background. HEIC is the format an iPhone saves photos in by default, which is why this pairs naturally with the iPhone GIF maker when your stills come straight off the camera roll. If you only have one source type, the dedicated PNG to GIF, WebP to GIF, and picture to GIF converters open the same studio with that format front and center.

Image-to-GIF builds an animation from a set of separate still photos you supply and order yourself, so you decide exactly which frames appear and how long each holds. Video-to-GIF starts from one continuous clip and samples frames out of it at a chosen frame rate — the motion is already captured.

That difference shapes the controls. Here you're stitching a deliberate sequence: every frame is a photo you chose, the order is set by dragging thumbnails, and the per-frame delay is yours to tune still by still. With a video you're trimming a span and letting the FPS decide the frames. Reach for this tool when you have discrete images — a slideshow, a stop-motion run, a before-and-after — and reach for video to GIF when you have footage to clip down.