Crop GIF

Cut an animated GIF down to the part you want: free hand, in fixed ratios or exact pixels, every frame.

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Crop an Animated GIF

This free GIF cropper cuts an animated GIF down to the part you want, on every frame at once. Open the GIF and its first frame appears with a crop box on it; drag the corners or edges, move the box, lock an aspect ratio from the list, or type the exact width and height in pixels. Reset puts the box back. The download is a GIF of the boxed area only, with every frame cropped identically, the frame timing and loop setting untouched. It trims a black border off a converted video, turns a wide screen recording into a square for social media, or pulls one face out of a group reaction GIF.

Ratios and Exact Pixels

Free mode gives you eight handles and any shape. Locking a ratio - square, 4:3, 3:2, 16:9, 9:16 for stories, 4:5 for portrait posts, 2:3 - keeps the box in that shape while you resize from a corner. The width and height fields show the crop in real pixels of the GIF and accept typed values; with a ratio locked, typing one side sets the other. A rule-of-thirds grid appears while you drag.

Every Frame, Same Crop

GIFs often store frames as small patches over the previous one, so the tool composites the animation the way a browser plays it before cropping, and every output frame is the complete picture inside the box. The cropped GIF is re-encoded with one shared palette, keeps its transparency, and plays exactly as long as the original. To change the size without cutting anything off, use the /resize-gif/ tool.

Private by Design

Your GIF never leaves your device. It is decoded, cropped and re-encoded entirely inside your browser; nothing is uploaded, there is no signup and no watermark, and once the page is open the tool even works offline.

Frequently Asked Questions About Cropping GIFs

How do I crop a GIF?

Open it, drag the box to the part you want - or lock a ratio, or type the pixels - and press Download. Every frame is cropped the same way.

Can I crop a GIF to a square?

Yes. Pick 1:1 from the ratio list; the box stays square while you resize it. 9:16 and 4:5 are there for stories and portrait posts.

Does cropping reduce quality?

The pixels inside the box are copied as they are, nothing is resampled. The GIF is re-encoded with one shared palette, which is invisible on almost every GIF, and the file gets smaller with the picture.

Why does the preview show only the first frame?

The box needs a still picture to aim on; it applies to every frame in the download, which plays on the result screen before you save it.

Is my GIF uploaded to a server?

No. Everything runs in your browser - nothing is transmitted anywhere, and the tool keeps working offline once the page is open.