About 2WebP

Why this exists

Animated WebP is one of the better-kept secrets of the modern web. It's smaller than GIF, sharper than GIF, and supported in every browser people actually use — but most tooling still pushes you toward GIF or MP4. I wanted a tool that converted short clips to animated WebP without uploading my files to a stranger's server.

2WebP runs entirely in the browser via FFmpeg compiled to WebAssembly. Your file never leaves your device. There are no accounts, no queues, and no upload progress bars to stare at. Pick a clip, trim it, pick a preset, download.

It's built for the people who keep hitting this problem: front-end and Webflow/Framer developers shrinking hero animations, designers prepping looping assets, marketers who need an email-safe clip that won't bloat the message. Most converters that handle animated WebP are server-based — you upload the footage, wait in a queue, and trust that the file gets deleted afterwards. That's slower, it's a privacy question, and it breaks the moment the clip is sensitive or large. Doing the encode locally sidesteps all of that: nothing uploads, there's no file-size ceiling imposed by someone else's infrastructure, and the only limit is your own machine.

How the guides are written

Every guide on this site is hand-written by me. I run real benchmarks on my own machine, cite specs and caniuse data with dates pinned, and update articles when the landscape shifts. If something is wrong, please tell me.