Reduce GIF Frames
Keep every 2nd, 3rd, 4th or 5th frame for a smaller, lighter GIF, same length, same timing.
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Keep every 2nd, 3rd, 4th or 5th frame for a smaller, lighter GIF, same length, same timing.
or browse filesdrop a GIF here or paste
This free GIF frame reducer keeps every 2nd, 3rd, 4th or 5th frame of an animated GIF and drops the rest, which is the surest way to make a GIF file smaller without shrinking the picture. Open the GIF, tap how many frames to keep, and the panel shows the frame count, the file size and the frame rate before and after while the original plays beside the result. A 30 fps screen recording kept at every 2nd frame is a 15 fps GIF at roughly half the size, and most viewers never notice.
Dropping frames here never speeds the animation up. Each kept frame takes over the display time of the frames removed after it, so the GIF runs exactly as long as before and every moment lands where it did - only the motion between moments gets coarser. To make a GIF faster instead, use the /gif-speed/ tool; to hand-pick single frames to remove, use the /gif-frame-remover/.
Many GIFs store every frame as a whole picture. For those the dropped frames are simply cut out of the file and the kept frames come through byte for byte, with their original colours and palette untouched - the note under the numbers says so. GIFs that store frames as small patches over the previous frame cannot be cut that way, because a patch depends on what came before; those are composited frame by frame and rebuilt from the kept frames, and the note says "rebuilt". Either way the result plays in the preview before you download it.
Your GIF never leaves your device. Frames are cut or rebuilt inside your browser; nothing is uploaded, there is no signup and no watermark, and once the page is open the tool even works offline.
No. The kept frames absorb the time of the removed ones, so the animation keeps its full length. Fewer frames per second is what makes it lighter.
Keeping every 2nd frame roughly halves the size, every 3rd cuts it to about a third, and so on - a little less when the file is rebuilt, because the shared colour palette is written once. The panel shows the exact size before you download.
Because that GIF stores frames as patches over the previous frame, so a dropped patch would leave a hole. The tool composites the frames and re-encodes the kept ones instead, which re-quantizes the colours slightly.
Use the /gif-frame-remover/, which shows every frame as a tile you can tap. This page is for thinning the whole animation evenly.
No. Everything runs in your browser - nothing is transmitted anywhere, and the tool keeps working offline once the page is open.