AI GIF maker
LeafReel is an AI GIF maker for people who want a personal GIF instead of a stock one: type a name or upload a photo and get a short looping GIF to send or post. Holiday pages also offer free ready-made GIFs to download with no sign-in. Each AI GIF costs 20 credits and needs a free account; the GIF tools, such as video to GIF and the GIF resizer, are free.
Birthday GIFs
Thanksgiving GIFs
Christmas and Hanukkah GIFs
New Year GIFs
Pet GIFs
Reaction GIFs
More GIF makers
Free GIF tools
Questions and answers
An AI GIF maker creates a new looping animation from a name, a photo or a short description. A regular GIF maker only converts or edits a video or images you already have.
Choose a tool built around the subject you want, because a general GIF editor still expects you to supply the footage. LeafReel has separate pages for birthday GIFs with a name, pet GIFs and reaction GIFs, so you start from a name or a photo.
Yes. On LeafReel you upload one photo, choose a page such as the pet GIF maker or cheering GIF, and get a short looping animation of that subject.
Partly. Holiday pages have free ready-made GIFs to download, and the GIF tools are free; each AI GIF made with your name or photo costs 20 credits.
Giphy and Tenor are libraries for finding GIFs that already exist. LeafReel makes a new GIF with your name or photo in it, which a library cannot give you.
About one second: birthday GIFs have 8 frames and photo GIFs 6, each shown for 0.16 seconds. The loop repeats endlessly in chats and social posts.
Birthday GIFs use GPT Image 2.6, which animates the scene by itself. Photo GIFs use GPT Image 2.5, which draws 6 frames of your photo that LeafReel joins into a loop.
Yes. Each AI GIF has a small leafreel.com badge in the bottom-right corner. GIFs from the free GIF tools carry no LeafReel badge.
No. The GIF format has no audio track, so every GIF plays silently everywhere you post it.
Yes, in most cases. You download a standard GIF file and share it like any other, though each app sets its own file size limits and may convert the file.
Small repeating motion works best, such as clapping, a head tilt, flickering candles or a wagging tail. Large movement like a full dance can look jumpy in a short loop.
Yes, with the free tools in your browser: add a caption, reverse it, resize it, compress it or split it into frames.