Crop a GIF

How it works

Screen-recorded GIFs almost always include things nobody needs to see — a browser chrome, a taskbar, half of another window, a name in a title bar. Cropping fixes it, and cropping a GIF properly means cropping every frame identically while keeping the animation intact.

Choosing the area

The first frame is shown so you can drag a selection over it. Drag inside the box to move it, drag a corner to resize it. Because every frame in a GIF shares the same dimensions, the selection you make on frame one applies exactly to all of them.

Cropping also makes the file smaller

Removing pixels removes data from every frame at once, so cropping away a wide empty margin often shrinks a GIF substantially — sometimes more than resizing it does, and without making anything blurry.

Privacy in the literal sense

The usual reason to crop a screen recording is that something in shot should not be shared: an email address, a customer name, a file path, an open tab. Doing that on a site that uploads the GIF first means the uncropped version has already left your machine. Here it never does.

What is kept

Frame count, frame timing and looping are all preserved. Re-encoding rebuilds the colour palette, so the result is not byte-identical to the original in the area you kept, but visually it is the same.