Sticker on white
A bouncing character on white, the dither dots around it cleared.
GIF Background Remover: Transparent GIFs in Seconds
Drop an animated GIF and its white, black, color or green screen background is removed from every frame at once, with clean edges. This free GIF background remover runs in your browser and saves a transparent GIF, an APNG with soft edges or every frame as a PNG.
GIF background removerFree · runs in your browser
Drop a GIF to remove its background
Animated GIF, WebP or PNG, or a short MP4 or WebM clip. Everything stays in your browser.
- Free, runs in your browser
- Every frame at once
- Green screen and glows
- GIF, APNG and PNG frames
GIF Background Remover Examples
Eight animations made for these examples, each turned into a transparent GIF by this page's own engine. Open one to try every setting.
Pixel art on blue
A spinning coin with its hard edges kept pixel for pixel.
Emoji on mint
A waving hand lifted off a pastel background on every frame.
Logo on orange
Everywhere is on, so the holes in the letters turn clear too.
Character on navy
A floating ghost lifted off a dark background with soft edges.
Fire on black
Soft removal turns the black into transparency and keeps the glow.
Green screen
A dancing character keyed out of a chroma green background.
Smoke on white
Soft removal keeps every wisp of smoke half transparent.
How to Remove the Background from a GIF
Three steps, and nothing is uploaded.
Drop, paste or choose an animated GIF, WebP or PNG, or a short MP4 clip. The background color is read from the edges of the frames and removed at once.
Click a color to remove it from every frame, or click a part to keep it. Set the tolerance, clear dither specks and keep soft edges.
Save a transparent GIF for any page, an APNG that keeps soft edges, or every frame as a PNG, cropped to the animation if you like.
What This GIF Background Remover Does Best
Six things it does well, from a sticker on white to fire on black.
OriginalEvery frame at once
The background color most frames share is found on their edges and removed from all of them, even while the subject moves.
OriginalGreen screen in one step
Chroma green and blue backgrounds come out cleanly with a higher tolerance and a one-pixel shrink against green fringes.
OriginalFire, smoke and glows
Soft removal reads each frame as color on the background, so flames and smoke on black or white keep their soft, see-through edges.
One click for every frame
A color you click is removed, or kept, on every frame wherever the subject moves, and Undo steps back one click at a time.
Clean, crisp edges
Dither specks around the subject are cleared, edges are unmixed from the background, and pixel art keeps its hard edges.
Free and private
Everything runs in your browser: no upload, no account and no watermark, with full-size downloads.
Guide: Make a GIF Transparent, Cleanly
Five short tips for a clean transparent GIF.
Start with a plain background
GIFs on one color, a green screen, black or white come out best. The more even the background, the cleaner every frame.
Set the tolerance
Raise it for compressed or dithered GIFs and green screens; lower it when parts of the subject are close to the background color.
Holes and gaps
Turn on Everywhere to clear the background inside letters, loops and the gaps between arms and legs, or click a hole to remove its color.
Fire, glows and smoke
Turn on Soft removal for effects on black or white: they fade into transparency instead of keeping a dark or light fringe.
Pick GIF or APNG
A GIF stores each pixel as clear or solid: under GIF edges, choose the color of the page it goes on for smooth edges, or download the APNG, which keeps every soft edge.
Who Uses a Transparent GIF
Common reasons to remove the background from a GIF.
Streamers and creators
Put animated stickers and alerts over videos, streams and thumbnails.
Designers and web makers
Drop animated icons and logos onto any page color without a box around them.
Game developers
Clean animated sprites and effects, then turn them into a sprite sheet.
Social media and chat
Make stickers and reactions for chats, stories and posts.
GIF Background Remover FAQ
Answers about transparent GIFs, edges, files and privacy.
Open the GIF in this GIF background remover: its plain background is removed from every frame at once. Click any leftover color, then download the transparent GIF.
Yes. It runs entirely in your browser, needs no account and adds no watermark.
No. Every frame is processed on your device; nothing is sent to a server.
Yes. Open a GIF or a short MP4 clip on green, raise the tolerance a little, turn on Everywhere and set Shrink edge to 1 px for clean edges.
Under GIF edges, choose the color of the page the GIF will sit on, and soft edges are blended onto it. For any background, download the APNG, which keeps every soft edge.
Yes. Turn on Soft removal: flames, glows and smoke on black or white become see-through pixels with their soft edges kept.
Animated GIF, WebP, PNG (APNG) and AVIF files, and short MP4, WebM or MOV clips, read at 12 frames a second.
Yes. Make a sprite sheet sends the transparent animation to the GIF to sprite sheet tool in your browser, or you can download every frame as a PNG.
Make Your GIF Transparent Now
Open a GIF and download a clean transparent GIF in seconds, free with this GIF background remover in your browser.
Open a GIF