GIF Compressor Blog

Discord now allows GIFs up to 20MB. Learn how to compress a GIF for Discord locally in your browser—no upload, no watermark.

Need a GIF under 10MB for email, forums, or older Discord limits? Compress it locally to 10MB or less in one pass.

Discord animated emojis must be under 256KB and stickers under 512KB. Compress sticker and emoji GIFs locally without uploading them.

Most online GIF compressors upload your file to a server. This tool compresses GIFs with WebAssembly in your browser instead.

Need a GIF compressor to 20MB? Shrink any animated GIF under Discord’s 20MB limit locally in your browser.

GIFs balloon because every frame stores a bitmap plus a 256-color palette. Here is what actually reduces file size.