Hagif vs makegif

Hagif is a browser-first workshop for creating downloadable media files, with workflows for GIFs, video, images, audio, PDFs, SVGs, and utilities. Featured tasks include video-to-GIF, GIF compression, image-to-GIF, and GIF-to-MP4; it also offers templates and prompt-to-GIF. Core conversion and editing run in the browser on the user’s device, and standard single-file processing is free, requires no account, and produces watermark-free downloads. Free batch GIF processing is limited to one file at a time. The 24-hour Hagif Power Pass costs $4.99, paid once and adds batch GIF processing, ZIP downloads, exact-target search, and additional quality candidates for up to 10 selected GIFs; it does not renew automatically. Hagif says files stay in the browser except when using AI GIF, which sends the text prompt to Cloudflare Workers AI before creating the animation in the browser. Large files may run out of memory, and codec support varies by browser, source format, and device.

makegif is a free browser-based tool for creating and editing animated GIFs on the web. It can build GIFs from JPG, PNG, GIF, WebP files and screenshots, or convert short videos supplied as local files or direct video URLs. Video conversion includes controls for duration, size, frame rate and quality, with a 200MB maximum file size and a 5–30 fps range. Frame tools let users reorder or reverse frames, remove frames, and set one delay globally or different delays per frame. Separate cropper and resizer pages handle animated GIFs and list a 30MB file limit. Exports are watermark-free. Files used in browser tools are intended to stay local in the browser unless a feature says otherwise. The site may collect basic analytics, including visits, device type and referrer data. makegif is independently maintained, and its tools are provided as-is.