GIF Cropper — Crop Animated GIFs
Cut out unwanted margins, center subjects, or change framing across all frames in an animated GIF. Drag an interactive crop boundary directly over the first frame with instant preview. Choose from freeform rectangular cropping or standard fixed aspect ratios including square 1:1 for social avatars, widescreen 16:9 for video embeds, and 4:3 for classic displays. Every frame in the animation is sliced cleanly to the exact chosen boundary.
Use Cases
How to crop an animated GIF
Drop your GIF file into the canvas area to load its first frame into the interactive cropper.
Drag the handles to frame your subject, or pick an aspect ratio preset like 1:1 or 16:9.
Click Run to slice all animation frames to the selected rectangle and re-encode the GIF.
Check the cropped animation preview, verify dimensions, and download your cropped GIF.
Frequently Asked Questions
- Does cropping apply to every frame in the GIF?
- Yes. The crop coordinates you set on the first frame are applied uniformly across every frame in the entire animation sequence.
- What aspect ratio presets are available?
- You can choose Free form for arbitrary selections, 1:1 for square social posts and profile pictures, 16:9 for widescreen video embeds, or 4:3 for standard presentations.
- Will cropping reduce the GIF file size?
- Yes. Cropping discards all pixel data outside the boundary, which proportionally decreases the uncompressed data and overall file weight.
- Are frames re-encoded or just cropped?
- Pixel buffers are cropped in memory and re-encoded cleanly with gifenc, preserving palette accuracy and transparency.
Private by design. Interactive canvas cropping and frame slicing run entirely in your browser — your GIF is never uploaded to a server.
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