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How to Optimize Animated GIF | How to Reduce GIF Size | How to Compress GIF Files
Animated GIFs are everywhere. You can find them in texts, instant messages, and emails, but also on social media channels and websites. They’re so popular that many mobile keyboards have a special button to search for GIFs.
One downside to GIFs is that they can be quite large files. To help you reduce the size of the GIF images you find or create, we’ve rounded up some of the best GIF compressor and optimizer tools. Online tools, Android apps, and desktop programs: our list includes a few of each.
Think of image compression like this. To compress an image, you have to remove some detail from it, and—this is the key—some detail is more important than others. Compression programs and services find the details that are least important and remove them to create a smaller file. They might reduce the number of colors in the image or simply change the dimensions of the image.
