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Place a window on the GIF. GIF Crate crops or pads every frame in this browser, and the file stays on your device.
Preview
Upload GIF
Tap or click to choose a GIF, or upload from a URL. You can also drop a file or paste.
Controls
Resize a GIF without leaving the browser
A banner wants a wide GIF. A story wants a tall one. A post wants a square. GIF Crate is the browser toolbox for those jobs. On this page you set a new frame, crop into the animation, or add space around it, then save. The motion stays. The file stays on your device.
The same tool also lives at GIF Resizer.
Pull the frame inside the picture to trim every frame the same way. Let it hang past the picture and the extra room is yours to fill: clear, or a color that suits the layout. Wide, tall, or square, you pick the shape. Nothing here squashes the GIF to force the fit.
How to resize a GIF
Three steps, from the file on your device to a GIF you can post. No account, no install, no watermark.
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Open a GIF
Drop it on the page, pick a file, paste from the clipboard, or paste a public link. GIF Crate accepts GIFs. The picture you open from this device is not uploaded.
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Choose the new shape
Drag the frame until the GIF fits, or type the width and height you need. Crop in for a tighter shot. Add space for a banner, a story, or a square. If you add space, leave it clear or give it a color. A zoom control can make the saved GIF larger or smaller.
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Save it
Download keeps a copy for you to post or send. Apply leaves the new GIF on the page when you want another pass. Every frame follows the frame you set, so the animation still plays.
When a GIF needs a new shape
The usual reason to resize a GIF is a slot that does not match the file. These are the jobs this page is for.
Banners and headers
Channel art and page headers are wide. Add room on the left and right so the animation sits in the middle of a banner, instead of rebuilding it.
Stories and tall posts
A story frame is tall. Give the GIF space above and below, or crop it to a vertical cut, and keep the motion that made it worth posting.
Squares for a feed
Profile posts and thumbnails often want a square. Crop to that shape so the subject stays put and the loop still reads at a small size.
A cleaner edge
Trim a stray border, empty margin, or leftover background. The same cut applies to every frame, so the animation does not jump.
Wider or taller, the GIF stays itself
The sketch below is not your file. The pale block is the GIF, and it keeps the same shape on every card. What changes is the room around it.
The wider card is a banner: space on the left and right. The taller card is a story: space above and below. That space can stay clear or take a color. To trim instead, drag the frame inside the picture. Every frame loses the same edge, and the animation is not squashed to fit.
Why resize a GIF with GIF Crate
The animation stays together
One frame for the whole GIF. You are not cropping frame one by hand and hoping the rest match. The loop keeps its order.
The picture is not squashed
A new shape comes from a crop or from space around the GIF. The picture itself is not pulled wider or taller to fake the fit.
Free, and it stays with you
No account and no watermark. Open a GIF, resize it, and download it in the browser. A link you paste is loaded so you can work, and it is not kept.
One toolbox, this tool first
GIF Crate is a set of GIF tools. The one on this page resizes an animated GIF. It is ready to use above, with nothing else to install.
GIF resize questions
- How do I resize a GIF online?
- Open it at the top of this page, set the width and height you need, and download. The resize runs in your browser. You can crop the GIF, or add space around it, and the animation comes with you.
- Can I crop an animated GIF?
- Yes. Drag the frame inside the picture and every frame is cut to that same view. The loop does not have to be rebuilt, and you do not crop each frame by hand.
- Can I make a GIF wider or taller without squashing it?
- Yes. Add space on the sides for a wide GIF, or above and below for a tall one. The original picture keeps its shape. Leave the new space clear, or fill it with a color.
- Will the animation still play?
- It will. Every frame gets the same new size, in the same order, with the timing the file already had. You download one GIF, not a pile of stills.
- Is this free, and do you keep my GIF?
- It is free, with no account and no watermark. A GIF from your device is resized there. Paste a public link and GIF Crate loads it so you can work. That copy is not stored.
- What if I only want it a little larger or smaller?
- Use the zoom control before you download. That changes how big the saved GIF is. Adding space changes the canvas around the picture. Cropping changes what part of the picture you keep.