Compress GIF to 256 KB
Ceiling pre-set to 256 KB. Drop the GIF, get one that fits. Never uploaded.
Drop GIFs here or click to browse
The converter downloads once (about 32 MB), then works offline. Your videos stay on your device.
Why 256 KB?
The Discord emoji ceiling. Animated emoji must land under 256 KB, and most GIFs are megabytes. This page walks a quality ladder — colors, then frame rate, then scale — and stops at the first step that fits.
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Frequently asked questions
Will my GIF still animate under 256 KB?
Yes. The ladder trades palette colors and frame rate before touching dimensions, so the animation itself survives. Very long GIFs give up more quality; trimming the loop first buys sharper frames.
For a Discord emoji, should I also resize it?
Discord scales emoji down to 128×128 anyway, so pre-resizing with our Resize GIF to 128×128 page usually gets you under 256 KB with quality to spare.
Is my GIF uploaded to compress it?
No. The re-encode runs in your browser through WebAssembly FFmpeg with a regenerated optimal palette. Nothing is sent anywhere.
How does the tool get under 256 KB?
It walks a quality ladder — fewer palette colors first, then a lower frame rate, then smaller dimensions — and stops at the first step that fits under 256 KB. Files already under the limit come back untouched.