Top 15 YouTube GIF Maker to Make GIF Easily and Free

Sometimes you might come across a beautiful video on YouTube that you'd like to convert into a GIF for your Tumblr or blog. Luckily, there are lots of YouTube GIF maker apps that you can use. However, finding the perfect GIF maker can be a daunting task. That's because most GIF makers are either complicated to use or offer limited GIF editing tools. It's because of these reasons that I've decided to conduct some research and bring you these sixteen YouTube GIF maker HD tools. Let's take a look!

• Part 1. Best YouTube GIF Maker You Can't-Miss
• Part 2. Top 14 Free and Online YouTube GIF Maker

Part 1. Best YouTube GIF Maker You Can't Miss

Wondershare UniConverter is the best YouTube GIF Maker HD that you can find currently. It's fast, powerful, and simple to use. With it, you can download YouTube videos directly before converting to GIF. It allows you to set the start/end time, frame rate, and output size. In addition to that, this app also features a DVD burner/ripper, file converter, and a feature-laden toolbox.

Steps to convert YouTube to GIF with Wondershare GIF Maker:

Step 1 Launch the GIF maker tool.

Run the Wondershare GIF Maker then click the Toolbox. On the Toolbox window, click the GIF Maker option.

Step 2 Add your video.

Next, click the Video to GIF tab before clicking the +Add File icon to upload your YouTube video for conversion.

Step 3 Customize your video.

Now start customizing your GIF by entering the start and end time. You can also type in the output size and frame rate.

Step 4 Convert YouTube to GIF.

Last but not least, set a folder path for your GIF file and then click the Create GIF button. Wondershare GIF Maker will transcode your YouTube video to GIF quickly.

Part 2. Top 14 Free and Online YouTube GIF Maker

On top of the Wondershare GIF Maker, you can also add these free YouTube GIF maker apps to your conversion arsenal. They are simple-to-use, efficient, and works on any OS platform.

1. GifRun

To begin with, GifRun is simple enough for any skill level. After pasting the video link, GifRun will import your YouTube video quickly and redirect you to an editing page. There, you'll set the GIF duration, start/end time, and the resolution. You can also play your GIF before converting to see if it still needs some changes. Overall, it's one of the simplest GIF-making apps.

2. GIPHY

GIPHY is another excellent GIF maker that is straightforward, feature-laden, and ad-free. On it, you can create GIFs from image/video URL, local photos/videos, and camera roll. You can also decorate your GIF by adding tags, stickers, text, filters, and more. Even better, GIPHY has a dedicated mobile app for iOS and Android devices.

3. FreeGifMaker

FreeGifMaker is a robust tool that is incredibly simple to use. Just paste a link on the app, and it will upload your YouTube video in a nutshell. That aside, FreeGifMaker can make GIFs from YouTube videos and Photo links. You can also add GIF effects like the big eyes, Xmas, love eyes, and more. And of course, FreeGifMaker is a super-fast app to use.

4. Imgflip

Imgflip will allow you to make custom animations from YouTube videos, social media websites, and photos. It supports most popular video formats such as OGG, SWF, 3GP, MPEG, MOV, and more. Surprisingly, you can create GIFs from GIFs by merely pasting the URL. However, all Imgflip conversions feature an Imgflip watermark. But fortunately, the watermark is small, so your GIF will still be readable.

5. Gifs

Gifs is a smooth media editor that will make short, interesting animated GIFs for your social media platform. It can upload a video URL from YouTube, Vine, Vimeo, Facebook, and more. Also, Gifs can add or record local videos. After that, you will edit GIFs by adding captions, blurring, cropping. Inverting, and more. And yes, Gifs can make MP4 videos too.

6. Clideo

Clideo is an impressive video editor that does more than just making memes. Here, users can merge audios, filter video, add subtitles, speed up or slow down videos, resize video, and so much more. It also has a simple UI that should be comfortable for any users. However, you'll have to subscribe to unlock all its features.

7. GifGen

GifGen is undoubtedly one of the best online GIF makers on this list. It's simple-to-use and offers tens of ready-made GIFs to upload to your blog or social media platform directly. Apart from making GIFs, it can also edit them by changing tags, visibility, title, and GIF duration. What's more, you can mute GIFs if you want.

8. Imgur

If you're looking for the best place to find the funniest, inspiring, and most informative GIFs, memes, images, and other visual stories, try Imgur. Here, you can select and download your favorite GIF for future use. Although that is great, you should settle for the other options on this list that allow you to create customized GIFs.

9. Makeagif

Makeagif certainly won't disappoint when it comes to GIF-making functions. It's simple and comes with lots of free GIFs to download. It can create animated GIFs from Webcam, Facebook, YouTube, Pictures, and local videos. It can also edit GIFs by adjusting quality, speed, adding captions, and more.

10. GIFMaker

GIFMaker is a simple app that's comfortable to all, regardless of whether you're a professional photographer or an amateur. It can make GIFs from images or videos as well as edit them by resizing, reversing, merging, splitting, and more. It also features other tools like a password generator and an image compressor. Even better, you can upload as many as 300 images for converting to GIF.

11. GIFGEAR

GIFGEAR is a secure online GIF animator that allows the creation of animated photos in the GIF format. After loading your camera pictures, this app will enable you to choose the animation size, quality, start/end time, and so on. Sadly, this online GIF maker doesn't support any video format. But that aside, it's a lovely, free image GIF maker.

12. Picasion

Picasion is a multi-lingual, online GIF maker that supports batch importation of pictures. You can upload photos from your computer, webcam, or URL. After that, you can resize the GIF, split it, set GIF speed, and more. But just like GIFGEAR, Picasion doesn't support any video format.

13. GIKR

On GIKR, users can create GIFs from YouTube videos, local galleries, or sites like Picasa and Flickr. After adding your YouTube video, GIKR allows you to preset the GIF size or number of frames. However, GIKR is extremely ad-laden, making it complicated for users to have a smooth experience.

14. PicGIF for Mac

PicGIF for Mac is a simple-to-use GIF maker with an intuitive UI. It allows users to make GIFs from their life photos or videos on their Macs. You can also edit GIFs by trimming, inserting texts or stickers, and more. And lest I forget, it can export GIFs to Finder, E-mail, Tumblr, or iMessage.

So, if you want to make some animated GIFs from your YouTube videos, these free apps should sort you out. However, some of them are complicated, ad-laden, and don't support video formats. Also, they can't convert offline. Therefore, I recommend the Wondershare GIF Maker for the best results and smooth operations.