10 best gif creator apps for Android
Gifs have quickly become one of the most popular ways for people to express themselves. That’s because it requires less time to view than a video, but it’s also more expressive than a photo. You can find them all over social media and the Internet in general. Some of them are pretty fantastic also. If you’ve ever thought of creating a gif yourself, you have two options. The first is a camera app that turns a short piece of video footage into a gif. The other is a gif creator tool that helps you make them from other stuff. We’ll explore both of these because they are the best gif creator apps on Android. If you find the creation process too tedious or annoying, you can always surf Giphy for some really good gif creation app!
Camera MX
Price: Free / Up to $1.99
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Camera MX is one of several gif creator apps that are also camera apps. You can record short spurts of video or many photos. The app can turn all of that into GIFs for you. It's not great for making random ones from, say, videos on YouTube. However, it's a good way to shoot some yourself. It's also a halfway decent camera app on its own. The GIF feature goes by Live Shot in the app. It should work for basic GIF creating.
Footej Camera
Price: Free / $2.99
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Footej Camera was one of the first cameras to also do GIFs. It's also a really good camera app. It features manual camera controls, an integrated gallery app, burst shot mode, a photo histogram, and more. There is even 4K video support on many devices (with more coming). The app can also create high quality GIFs using photos or videos that you shot. Those GIFs are shareable just about everywhere. The app has a few problems here and there. However, the dev team is generally fairly communicative about fixing them.
GIF Maker and Editor
Price: Free / $2.99
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GIF Maker is one of the more popular GIF creator apps. You can cut and crop videos in your gallery to create GIFs. It can also create them using up to 200 photos. You can also add stickers, text, or edit existing GIFs. The GIFs should work on most websites afterward. You have to come up with the material to make the GIF yourself. Otherwise, this one is pretty good. It does have bugs, though. There is also a learning curve you'll have to get a handle on.
Gif Me Camera and GIF maker
Price: Free / $1.49
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Gif Me Camera is a camera app specifically for GIF making. It captures up to 14 seconds of video. You then edit it with color filters, stickers, text, and other stuff. It also supports stop motion, time lapse, and other types of shots. There is support for video-to-GIF conversions for those who have videos laying around. The free version has advertisements. It also adds a watermark to your GIF. The pro version removes both of those things.
Gif Me Camera and GIF maker
Giphy Cam
Price: Free
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Giphy Cam is one of the newer gif creator apps. It's also from Giphy, one of the undisputed champions of the GIF format. The camera records a short segment of video. You can alter that video with tons of filters, special effects, stickers, text, and more. It also has a five-shot burst mode alongside its video mode. This is probably the best GIF/camera app hybrid. It doesn't have any camera features, but it does GIFs better than the others by a fairly wide margin. It's completely free with no in-app purchases.
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Some messaging apps have a GIF creator built-in. GroupMe is one of them as is Google Allo. GroupMe can't create GIFs from nothing. However, you can take a GIF, add text, and the app will remake it for you. Google Allo has a camera function that shoots a few seconds of video. That video is sent to your friends in GIF format. These aren't great for general GIF creation. That's why we condensed them to one spot on this list. GroupMe is especially nice for being able to add quick, clean text to existing images and GIFs, though.
GroupMe, Google Allo, and some other chat apps
Motion Stills
Price: Free
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Motion Stills is a GIF creator app by Google. It has two modes that you can use. The first shoots a short bit of video. You can turn it into a GIF from there. The second mode allows you to shoot slow motion video. You can share your Stills as looping GIFs or as videos. It just depends on what you need. The app does have a few issues. It's a newer app, though. Those issues will likely be fixed over time. The app is free with no ads or in-app purchases. It's difficult to complain too much.
Pixel Animator
Price: Free / Up to $3.86
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Pixel Animator is technically a pixel art app. However, you can create GIFs with your artwork. The app has a decent interface. You can get in and start drawing almost immediately. The free version of the app lets you make GIFs with up to 15 total frames. The paid version removes that restriction. Perhaps its most useful feature is the ability to port the prior image in a GIF to the next image. That way you just have to make slight alterations instead of starting over from scratch. It's super useful for those who want to make their own unique GIFs.
PowerDirector
Price: Free / Up to $5.99
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PowerDirector is one of many video editing apps with GIF support. This one just happens to be better than most of the other ones. It's a video editor app. Thus, it'll have similar features. However, two of the export formats include GIF still images and animated GIFs. This will definitely work best for turning a video into a shorter GIF. The app is free to download and play with. You may need to purchase additional features via in-app purchases.
Price: Free
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Believe it or not, Tumblr has a GIF making process within its official app. It lets you add stickers, text, and other customization if you want to. It works a lot like GroupMe's functionality does. Of course, that is on top of the app's normal function, which is to share and read stuff to and from other Tumblr users. This is a good tool for those who already use Tumblr. However, those who don't should probably try one of the other apps on this list. As usual, the Tumblr app is free with no in-app purchases.
