Convert SVG to GIF Online

Yes, if the SVG animates with CSS keyframes or SMIL. The timeline is read out of the file, so unlike most converters you are not asked to type in how long the animation runs. Animation driven by JavaScript is not captured, and a static SVG gives a single frame.

Yes. Any animated SVG heading for GIF gets a frame rate control on its row, from 5 up to 20 frames per second, and 10 is the default. Smoother means more frames, and more frames means a bigger file in almost exact proportion: doubling the rate roughly doubles the size.

Up to 120 frames. A timeline too long for that at your chosen rate keeps all of itself at a lower rate rather than losing its ending, so a thirty second animation arrives complete and slightly choppier instead of stopping twelve seconds in.

It matches the SVG's own width and height attributes, exactly as the PNG conversion does. An SVG declared at 100x100 rasterizes to a 100x100 GIF. Animated output is capped at 800px on its longest side, since every pixel is paid for once per frame.

GIF transparency is a single palette entry, on or off, with nothing in between. The soft antialiased edge of a vector shape is made of partly transparent pixels, and each one becomes fully opaque in its own colour. Convert to PNG instead if you need the edge to blend into the background behind it.

A GIF holds at most 256 colours. A smooth gradient contains thousands, so it gets quantized down and the steps become visible. Flat fills are unaffected, which is why logos survive the trip and illustrations with soft shading often do not.

Yes, and this differs from our SVG to PNG page. No browser can encode a GIF, so the file is sent to our server, converted in memory, returned and never stored. It counts against the daily limit of 20 files. An animated conversion takes several seconds rather than an instant, because every frame is rendered.