FitFileSize

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Compress a GIF to 2 MB

A GIF made from a screen recording or a video clip is often 5 to 20 MB. To reach 2 MB it is compressed and made smaller in pixels as far as needed, and frames are dropped only as a last resort.

Drop your file here

or choose a file · PDF, JPG, PNG, GIF, WebP, TIFF, BMP or HEIC

Your upload limit
  • Deleted automatically
  • Free, no watermark
  • Quality kept where possible

Getting a GIF under 2 MB

The first lossy step adds a little grain that is hard to see in motion. If that is not enough, the GIF uses fewer colours and fewer pixels, a step at a time, and we keep the first step that fits. Dropping frames comes last, after the pixel size.

The GIF is never converted to a video or another format. It comes back as a GIF, with its frame delays and loop count as they were.

Tips

  • For a GIF in documentation or a README, crop away empty parts of the screen before recording. Pixels you do not record cost nothing.
  • Lower the frame rate in your screen recorder if you can: 10 to 15 frames a second is usually smooth enough for a demo.
  • If one GIF has to carry a long demo, splitting it into two shorter GIFs keeps both sharper.

How it works

  1. 1

    Drop your file

    A PDF or an image. It goes over an encrypted connection and nowhere else.

  2. 2

    Pick your limit

    Choose the size the form asks for. We start with a cleanup that changes nothing you can see.

  3. 3

    Download it

    If it needs more, we find the gentlest quality setting that still fits, and delete everything soon after.

Questions

Is it free?

Yes. There is no sign-up and no watermark.

What happens to my file?

It is processed on our server and deleted automatically: the original 5 minutes after the run finishes, the compressed file after 10. A file you upload but never compress is deleted within 30 minutes. You can also delete everything right away with Delete now.

Will it look worse?

We try a lossless cleanup first, which does not change how the file looks. Only if that is not enough do we lower image quality, and we pick the gentlest setting that still fits your size.

What if my file cannot get that small?

You get the smallest version we could make and a clear note saying so, instead of a file that silently misses the limit.

Why does the size page aim a little under its limit?

Some sites count a kilobyte as 1000 bytes and others as 1024. We aim under the stricter one, so a 200 KB page aims for 200,000 bytes and the file passes either way.

Common size limits

PDF

Photos and images

PNG

iPhone photos (HEIC)

Forms and applications

Discord

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