Why are white parts inside my character not removed?

That is on purpose. "Touching the edges" only removes background that is connected to the border of the GIF, so a white shirt or the whites of the eyes stay. Switch the Where setting to "Everywhere" to remove the colour from the whole picture, or paint over a spot with the Erase brush.

GIF Background Remover

Remove the background from an animated GIF - white, any solid colour or a green screen - and keep every frame and its timing. Download a transparent GIF, or a WebP or APNG with smooth edges. Still images? Use the PNG Background Remover.

Drop your GIF here or browse Animated or still GIF - or paste one with Ctrl+V Auto-detects the background Every frame kept Most GIFs never leave your device

Live preview

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Background to remove

Click the preview to pick a colour - Shift+click adds another.

Kind of background

Tolerance 12%

Exact colourSimilar shades too

Raise it until the background is gone - stop before your subject starts to fade.

Where

Output

New background

Ctrl + Enter removes, Space plays

How to Remove the Background from a GIF

Add your GIF. Drop an animated GIF on the page, browse for it, paste it with Ctrl+V, or paste a Tenor, GIPHY or X link.
Check the automatic cut. The background colour is found from the edges and removed in the live preview. Scrub through the frames to check them all.
Fine-tune. Move the tolerance slider, click the background with the eyedropper, or switch to Green screen. Paint with the Erase or Keep brush for stubborn spots.
Pick the output. Transparent GIF for every app, WebP or APNG for smooth edges, or a new background colour or picture.
Remove and download. Click Remove background, then download the result or open it in another GIF tool.

Three Ways to Cut Out the Background

The tool removes a colour, so it works best on GIFs with a plain backdrop.

You choose which pixels count as background.

Setting	What it removes	Best for
Touching the edges	The colour where it connects to the border - like a paint bucket from every side	Most GIFs - stickers, cartoons, logos on white
Everywhere	That colour anywhere in the frame, including gaps between arms or letters	Text and shapes with holes
Green screen	Every light and dark shade of the backdrop hue	Green or blue screen clips with uneven lighting

A fading backdrop? Turn on Follow gradients, or Shift+click a second colour. For photo backgrounds, crop them away first with the GIF Cropper.

Clean, Smooth Edges on a Transparent GIF

A GIF can only show a pixel or hide it.

That is why curved edges cut from white can leave a thin light halo on a dark page.

Three fixes, from best to simplest:

Save as WebP or APNG. Both keep real, soft transparency and play in every modern browser. You can turn them back into a GIF later with WebP to GIF or APNG to GIF.
Use a matte. Set Matte to the colour of the page or chat the GIF goes on - the edge pixels blend into it.
Clean the fringe and shrink by 1 px. This trims the tinted outline on every frame.

Transparent GIF, WebP or APNG?

All three keep the animation and its timing.

Format	Edges	Use it for
GIF	Hard (on or off)	Discord, forums, email, old apps - anywhere
WebP	Smooth, full alpha	Websites and stickers - usually the smallest file
APNG	Smooth, lossless	Websites and apps that need pixel-perfect colours

Need a video instead? GIF to MP4 makes a small clip, but MP4 has no transparency - pick a new background colour first.

Change the Background of a GIF

Removing is only half the fun.

Switch New background to a colour to match your brand or a chat theme, or to a picture to drop the animation into a new scene.

The cut edges blend smoothly into the new background, and the result plays the same everywhere.

Then shrink it for chat apps with Compress GIF or the GIF Resizer, or add a caption with Add Text to GIF.

Fix Common Problems

Background still visible - raise the tolerance a little, or Shift+click the leftover colour to add it.
Holes in the subject - lower the tolerance, switch Where to Touching the edges, or paint the spot with the Keep brush.
Gaps between arms or letters stay filled - switch Where to Everywhere, or paint them with the Erase brush.
Halo or glow around the subject - turn on Clean colour fringe, shrink the edge by 1 px, or save as WebP.
Loose dots left over - set Despeckle to Small.
The GIF is too big for chat - shrink it with Compress GIF or trim it with the GIF Cutter.

Frequently Asked Questions

Drop the GIF on this page. The tool reads the colour around the edges and removes it from every frame straight away, so the preview shows the result before you click anything.

Fine-tune with the tolerance slider or the eyedropper, then click Remove background and download a transparent GIF, WebP or APNG.

Yes. Nothing is resized and no frames are dropped. Every frame keeps its own delay and the loop count stays the same.

To change those on purpose, use the GIF Resizer, the GIF Speed Changer or the GIF Loop Changer afterwards.

That is on purpose. Touching the edges only removes background that is connected to the border of the GIF, so a white shirt or the whites of the eyes stay.

Switch Where to Everywhere to remove the colour from the whole picture, or paint over a spot with the Erase brush.

Yes. Pick Green screen as the kind of background. It ignores light and shadow on the backdrop and only looks at the hue, which is what uneven studio lighting needs.

Turn on Clean colour fringe to take the green glow off hair and edges.

A GIF pixel is either fully transparent or fully visible, so soft, anti-aliased edges cannot exist in a GIF. Choose WebP or APNG output for smooth edges with real transparency.

If it has to be a GIF, set Matte to the colour of the page it will sit on, so the edge pixels blend into that colour instead of leaving a white halo.

Yes. Under Output, switch New background to Colour or Image. The cut-out animation is placed on your colour or picture on every frame.

The result is a normal GIF that looks the same in every app.

Most GIFs are processed right in your browser, so there is no upload and the limit is your device memory.

Big GIFs and WebP output in Safari use our server, which takes GIFs up to 50 MB, 2,000 frames and 2,000 px per side.

When the work happens in your browser, the GIF never leaves your device.

When our server is used, the GIF gets a random name and is deleted automatically within 4 hours. We never share it - see our Privacy Policy.