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TGS to GIF

Play a Telegram .tgs sticker on your device and save it as a GIF, for chats and apps that cannot play TGS. Free, with no account or uploads.

A .tgs is a Lottie compressed with gzip. It plays as it is, on your device, and Export is set to a GIF.

Drop a .tgs sticker to make a GIF

It plays as it is, drawn by ThorVG on your device.

  • JSON
  • LOTTIE
  • TGS

Stays on your device. Nothing is uploaded.

How it works and help

A little help along the way

Follow these steps. Every option is explained underneath. Everything happens in your browser; nothing you draw or bring in is sent anywhere.

  1. Say what you want to makeChoose a moving logo or icon, a loading animation or an animated icon to open a small animation that already moves, ready to change. Open a file takes an SVG, a picture or a project you saved before; you can also drop an SVG on the page.
  2. DrawDraw rectangles, ellipses, polygons, stars and triangles, paths with the pen, and strokes with the pencil and brush. Fill closed areas with the bucket, join or cut shapes with the Shape Builder, and write words in the site's fonts.
  3. Animate with keysA key says what a part is like at one moment: its position, turn, size, opacity or colours. Set a key at one time and another later, and every frame between them is worked out for you.
  4. Choose the easingEach key says how the movement goes on to the next: Steady, Jump, Smooth, Speed up, Slow down, Speed up, slow down, Overshoot or Spring, or a curve of your own in the graph editor.
  5. Play itPlay the timeline to watch it. It can loop, play once or play there and back, and a work area plays only the part you are working on.
  6. Export itSay where it will go: social media or a video makes an MP4, a chat or an email a GIF, a website or an app an animated WebP with a clear background, and a still picture a PNG or SVG of one frame. Each file is checked before it is offered.

Questions people ask

What is a .tgs file?
Telegram's animated sticker: a Lottie animation compressed with gzip, at 512 × 512 pixels and 60 frames a second. This page opens it and plays it as it is.
How is a .tgs turned into a GIF?
ThorVG draws each frame on your device, and the Animation converter's engine writes them as a GIF that plays in every chat and app. Nothing is uploaded.
Will the GIF keep the sticker's clear background?
A GIF keeps pixels only fully clear or fully solid, so soft edges can look rough. For soft see-through edges, choose an animated WebP or an APNG.

This page is the Animation maker, opened for this one job; every other tool it has is one press away. Each of its settings is explained on the Animation maker's own page.

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