Convert SVG to GIF

Pick the largest size you will ever display it at, because this is the step where the file stops being resolution-independent. An SVG is stored as mathematical paths and renders sharp at any size; the GIF is a fixed pixel grid, and enlarging it afterwards can only interpolate. Export at twice the intended display size if it is headed for a high-DPI screen. SVG renders perfectly at any size, stays editable, is searchable and diffable as plain text, and is usually a fraction of the size of an equivalent PNG. GIF is CompuServe’s 1987 format, and the only reason it survived is that it animates.

In an SVG, text is real text — selectable, searchable and re-styleable, and it needs the font to be available or embedded to render as intended. Converting away from SVG turns that text into pixels or into document text depending on the target; converting towards SVG only produces real text if the source had a text layer to begin with.

No pixel data, no. Both formats store the image without lossy compression, so the picture that comes out is identical to the one that went in and the conversion can be repeated indefinitely. What changes is file size, and which features travel — colour depth, embedded profiles, layers and animation are all supported unevenly between lossless formats.

Transparency survives when GIF is PNG, WebP, TIFF, GIF, or SVG. Converting to JPG flattens the alpha channel against a white background — if you need transparency, pick a transparency-aware target instead of GIF.

Embedded ICC colour profiles are read from the source SVG and re-attached to the GIF output where the format supports it (JPG, PNG, TIFF, WebP). Formats without profile support fall back to sRGB with a soft-proof step.

Camera EXIF (ISO, shutter, lens, GPS) is preserved by default during SVG -> GIF when both formats support metadata. Use the privacy toggle to strip metadata before download if you want to share images without geolocation or device-fingerprint exposure.

Yes — drag multiple SVG files into the upload zone and they queue in parallel. Free tier accepts 100 MB per file; Premium has no per-file cap and runs more parallel workers, so a 200-image batch typically finishes in under two minutes.

For straightforward format conversion we run the same libpng / libjpeg-turbo / libwebp / ImageMagick pipelines a desktop editor uses, at the same quality. The difference is that desktop tools open one file at a time; we accept a batch and run them in parallel on server-side workers.

Default behaviour is 1:1 — your GIF output has the same pixel dimensions as the source SVG. If you need to resize as part of the conversion, use /resize-image/ after, or chain the operations with the /image-pipeline/ utility.

For JPG / WebP, quality 75-85 typically yields a GIF 60-80% smaller than the SVG with no visible difference at normal viewing distance. For lossless GIF (PNG, TIFF), expect smaller savings — usually 5-30% via better deflate / LZW compression than the source already had. GIF animation plays absolutely everywhere — email clients, forums, chat apps and browsers all render it with no codec negotiation.

Yes — uploaded SVG files are processed in isolated workers and deleted within minutes. We never read, store, or share the pixel data. The full retention window is documented at /privacy/.