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Convert a WEBP image to GIF instantly, right in your browser.
Upload a WEBP file to convert it to GIF.
This tool converts a WEBP image to GIF entirely in your browser -- the file is decoded, redrawn onto a canvas, quantized down to GIF's 256-color indexed palette, and LZW-compressed into a real .gif file, all without ever being uploaded to a server. If your source image has 256 or fewer unique colors (typical for logos, screenshots, and flat-color graphics), the palette is built from its exact colors with no quality loss; a genuinely photographic image with more colors is automatically reduced to a fixed 256-color palette instead.
Click the upload area and choose a WEBP file. The converted preview appears immediately; click Download to save it as a real .gif file.
Need to go the other way? Use the GIF to WEBP tab above, or open the GIF to WEBP converter directly.
GIF is still the format of choice anywhere near-universal, decades-old compatibility matters more than color accuracy -- old forums, certain CMS upload filters, and some embed widgets accept GIF specifically. Its 256-color palette makes it a poor fit for photographs (expect visible color banding on gradients and skies), but a strong one for logos, icons, and simple flat-color graphics, which compress to it with no visible loss at all.
WebP files are usually saved with lossy compression, which introduces subtle color variations across the image, in a similar way to JPEG. When the browser decodes the file, a graphic that looks like it has only a few colors may contain hundreds or thousands of distinct shades. This tool counts the distinct colors after decoding, so a lossy WebP of a logo can push past the 256-color limit and force the fixed palette (8 levels of red, 8 of green, 4 of blue) even though the artwork looks simple. A lossless WebP is more likely to keep an exact palette.
WebP supports transparency, but the GIF written here does not carry an alpha channel. Transparent pixels are flattened onto white, so a WebP with a see-through background ends up with a white background. If you need a specific background, flatten the WebP onto it first in an image editor.
Animated WebP files are drawn onto the canvas by the browser as a still image, so you should expect a single frame rather than an animation. The output is always one static GIF frame, and it will not reproduce motion.
Say you have a 600x400 lossy WebP screenshot of a pricing table with a white background and blue headings. Compression noise makes the text edges contain many blended shades, but the flat areas stay clean. If the total stays at 256 or below, you get a pixel-identical GIF. If the screenshot also contains a small photo, the count exceeds the limit and everything, including the flat white and blue, is snapped to the nearest grid color, so the blue may look a touch different. Check the preview before you download it.
If the target accepts PNG or JPG, one of those is normally a better home for a WebP image than GIF. GIF is best kept for flat artwork.
The GIF has the same width and height as the WebP. Nothing is resized, and the file is produced entirely in your browser.
No -- the whole conversion happens locally in your browser using the Canvas API and a hand-written GIF encoder. Your file never leaves your device.
No -- this produces a single static-frame GIF from your source image, not an animation.
GIF only supports 256 colors total. If your source image has more unique colors than that (common in photos), they're mapped to the closest match in a fixed 256-color palette -- exact-color images (most logos and graphics) aren't affected at all.
Lossy WebP compression creates many slightly different shades after decoding, so the distinct color count can exceed 256 even for simple-looking artwork. When that happens the fixed grid palette is used.
The browser draws it as a still image, so the result is a single static GIF frame, not an animation.
No. The GIF written here has no transparency, so transparent areas are flattened onto white.
Usually not. GIF's 256-color limit produces banding on photos, and the file is often larger than the WebP.
WebP and GIF aren't interchangeable: WebP works well for web images that should load fast, both photos and graphics, whereas GIF is the better fit for simple graphics and short looping animations.
| WebP | GIF | |
|---|---|---|
| File extension | .webp | .gif |
| Compression | lossy or lossless | lossless, but limited to a 256-colour palette |
| Transparency | Full transparency (alpha channel) | On/off transparency only |
| Animation | Supported | Supported |
| Colours | 16.7 million plus an 8-bit transparency channel | 256 per frame |
| Best for | web images that should load fast, both photos and graphics | simple graphics and short looping animations |
| Support | all current browsers; some older desktop and print software cannot open it | every browser, chat app and editor |
The conversion happens in your browser; the file is never uploaded.