Convert GIF animations to highly efficient WebP format.
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Modernize your animations. Convert GIFs to highly efficient Animated WebP files for faster website loading.
Drag your GIF files into the tool or click to browse. We support batch processing for multiple files.
RiseConvert automatically analyzes frames and colors, applying intelligent compression to reduce size.
Get your new .webp files instantly. They are ready to be used on any modern website or app.
Replacing GIFs with WebP can improve your Core Web Vitals (LCP speed). Google Search favors faster sites, so this simple switch boosts your SEO.
The GIF format, developed in 1987, is notoriously inefficient. It processes animations frame-by-frame as full images, leading to bloated files. RiseConvert brings you the future with Animated WebP.
Our conversion engine leverages Google's libwebp library to analyze motion data and transparency. Unlike GIF's primitive LZW compression, WebP uses advanced predictive coding (based on VP8 video technology). It predicts pixel values based on neighboring blocks, storing only the differences.
The result? Animated images that are 30-50% smaller than their GIF counterparts, support full 24-bit color (vs GIF's 256 colors), and offer 8-bit alpha transparency channel for smooth edges.
8-bit alpha channel for smooth anti-aliased edges (GIF has only 1-bit).
Supports 16.7 million colors compared to GIF's limit of 256.
Developed by Google
For decades, the Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) has ruled the web. But it's an ancient format (older than the World Wide Web itself!) that is holding the internet back.
Agile and Beautiful: Animated WebP files are smaller, support more colors, and handle transparency better. If you run a website, blog, or store, using WebP means faster page loads and clearer images for your visitors.
One of the biggest visible differences is transparency. In a GIF, a pixel is either fully transparent or fully opaque. This creates choppy, "jagged" edges when placing a GIF over a colored background.
WebP supports 8-bit alpha transparency. This implies 256 levels of transparency, allowing for shadows, soft edges, and "anti-aliasing". Your stickers and animations will blend perfectly into any background.
Compression where no data is lost. Original image can be perfectly reconstructed.
Compression where some data is discarded to save space (WebP usually does this intelligently invisibly).
The component of an image that stores transparency information.
Visual flaws introduced by heavy compression, such as color banding or fuzziness.
WebP is supported by Chrome, Firefox, Edge, and Safari. It works on almost all modern devices.
Using WebP images allows your pages to load faster, which is a direct ranking factor for Google.
Files are processed in a secure environment and automatically deleted after 2 hours.
"Reduced my homepage weight by 4MB just by converting the hero GIF to WebP. Incredible."
"I love that it keeps the transparency clean. No more white halos around my stickers!"
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