GIF Cutter

What GIF Cutter does

GIF Cutter keeps one part of an animated GIF and drops the rest, or splits a GIF into two files at a frame. It works frame by frame, so the cut lands exactly where you put it.

The preview plays only the part you keep, and the readout shows the frames and times you picked. Audio Cutter does the same for sound.

How to use it

1. Select Choose GIF and pick a .gif, or drop one on the file row. The range starts at the first frame and ends at the last.
2. Drag the Start frame and End frame handles over the strip of frames, or type the frame numbers.
3. To make two GIFs instead, pick Split into two GIFs and choose the last frame of part 1. Preview switches between the parts.
4. Check the readout under the preview, then select Download GIF, or Download part 1 and Download part 2 when splitting.

Formats and limits

• Input: one GIF file.
• Output: a GIF named after the original with -cut added, such as cat-cut.gif, or two files ending in -part1 and -part2 when splitting.
• Frames keep their own delays, and the loop setting is kept.
• Splitting needs a GIF with at least two frames. Each part keeps at least one frame.
• Times in the readout use the delays browsers show, so frames stored with 10 ms or less count as 100 ms.

Settings explained

Mode

Keep a part makes one GIF from the frames between the handles. Split into two GIFs cuts the whole GIF into two files.

Start frame and End frame

The first and last frames to keep, both included. The handles over the strip and the number boxes move together.

Part 1 ends with frame

In Split mode, part 1 runs from the first frame to this one, and part 2 has every frame after it.

Handle keyboard controls

Tab to a handle, then use the arrow keys to move one frame, Page Up and Page Down to move ten, and Home and End to jump to the ends.

Privacy

The frames are picked in this tab, and the GIF is encoded in a Web Worker, a background thread of the same page. Nothing is uploaded, and files are only written when you download them.

FAQ

Why does the first kept frame look different?

It should not: every frame is stored as the full picture shown at that moment, so a cut can start anywhere, even in a GIF that only saved the changed areas of each frame.

Can I keep two separate parts in one GIF?

Cut each part here, then use GIF Frame Editor to put frames together or delete the ones in between.

Why is a short cut not much smaller?

The kept frames are encoded again with their own palettes. GIF Optimizer can shrink the result.

Related tools

• GIF Frame Editor - delete single frames anywhere in the GIF.
• GIF Joiner - put cut parts back together, or join other GIFs.
• GIF Speed Changer - change how fast the kept part plays.
• Video To GIF - make a GIF from a video clip to cut here.
• Video Cutter - keep one part of a video instead.