GIF Cropper

What GIF Cropper does

GIF Cropper cuts every frame of an animated GIF down to the same rectangle. Use it to remove borders and empty space, or to cut a GIF to a square or a 9:16 shape for social posts. To scale the whole picture down instead, use GIF Resizer.

Place the crop box by dragging it, by keyboard, or by typing exact pixel values. The preview plays the cropped animation as you go.

How to use it

1. Select Choose GIF and pick a .gif, or drop one on the file row. The crop box starts around the whole picture.
2. Pick an Aspect ratio, or keep Free for any shape.
3. In Crop Area, drag the box to move it and drag its edges or corners to resize it. Or type X, Y, Width, and Height in pixels.
4. If the subject moves, use Frame shown while cropping to check other frames under the box.
5. Watch the preview, then select Download GIF.

Formats and limits

• Input: one GIF file.
• Output: a GIF named after the original with -cropped added, such as cat-cropped.gif. It keeps every frame, delay, and the loop count.
• Every frame is cropped to the same rectangle, in whole pixels, at least 1 pixel across.
• Nothing is scaled, so the cropped area keeps its full sharpness.

Settings explained

Aspect ratio

Free allows any shape. 1:1, 4:3, 16:9, and 9:16 keep the box to that shape: picking one reshapes the box around its center, and resizing it keeps the shape.

X (px) and Y (px)

The box's left and top edges, measured from the top left corner of the GIF.

Width (px) and Height (px)

The size of the cropped GIF. With an aspect ratio set, changing one changes the other.

Crop box keyboard controls

Tab to the box, then use the arrow keys to move it 1 pixel, Shift with an arrow key to move it 10 pixels, and Alt with an arrow key to resize it from the right or bottom edge.

Reset crop

Puts the box back around the whole picture, or the largest box of the chosen shape.

Privacy

The frames are cropped in this tab, and the GIF is encoded in a Web Worker, a background thread of the same page. Nothing is uploaded, and the file is only written when you select Download GIF.

FAQ

Can the crop follow a moving subject?

No. One rectangle is used for every frame. Check a few frames with Frame shown while cropping so the subject stays inside the box.

Why is the cropped file not much smaller?

Cropping removes pixels, but the GIF is encoded again with its own palettes. GIF Optimizer can shrink it further.

Can I make the GIF larger?

Not here. Cropping only takes away. GIF Resizer changes the pixel size of the whole picture.

Related tools

• GIF Rotate and Flip - turn or mirror the GIF before cropping.
• GIF Resizer - scale the cropped GIF to an exact size.
• GIF Border and Frame - add a border around the cropped GIF.
• GIF Optimizer - make the cropped GIF a smaller file.
• Video Cropper - crop a video instead.