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Sprite Sheet to GIF - Free, With Automatic Grid Detection

Drop in a sprite sheet or a grid of stickers and get an animated GIF back. The gaps between tiles are found automatically, and every cutting line stays draggable so you can put it exactly where you want. Everything runs in your browser - the image is never uploaded.

What makes this cutter different

The grid is detected for you

Most sprite cutters make you count rows and columns by hand. This one scans for the gaps between tiles and places the lines itself - including on transparent sheets, where the usual colour-based detection fails.

Every line stays draggable

Detection gets you close; you decide where it lands. Drag any line, add or remove one, or nudge it a single pixel at a time with the arrow keys.

Presets for the usual layouts

3×3, 4×4, 4×6, 4×7 and 5×5 cover most sticker packs and sheets. One click replaces the whole grid.

One GIF, or one per row

Turn the whole sheet into a single animation, or split a 4×6 sheet into six separate four-frame GIFs - one per row or column.

Real transparency

Transparent areas stay transparent instead of turning into black boxes, which is what happens with most browser GIF encoders.

Nothing is uploaded

The image is read straight into the page and never sent anywhere. Works offline once the page has loaded.

How to turn a sprite sheet into a GIF

Drop in your sheet

Any grid image works - a sprite sheet, a sticker pack, a page of reaction images.

Check the grid

Lines are placed automatically. Drag them if a tile is clipped, or pick a preset if your sheet has no gaps to detect.

Set the timing

Choose frame order and how long each frame is held. Ping-pong plays the sequence then rewinds it.

Make the GIF

Download the animation, or grab the individual tiles as a ZIP instead.

What it is for

Game sprite sheets

Preview a walk cycle or attack animation as a GIF without opening an engine.

Sticker packs

Split a downloaded pack into individual stickers, or animate the whole sheet.

Reaction image grids

Cut a page of reaction faces into separate images you can actually send.

Frame-by-frame animation

Drew your frames in a grid? Turn the sheet straight into a looping GIF.

Comic and manga panels

Separate panels from a page and play them in sequence.

Contact sheets

Turn a grid of thumbnails back into the individual images.

Getting a clean cut

Gaps make detection work

Even a few pixels of background between tiles is enough. Seamless sheets have nothing to find, so use a preset there.

Drag beats recounting

If one line is slightly off, drag it rather than changing the row or column count - the rest of the grid stays where you put it.

Arrow keys for the last pixel

Click a line, then use the arrow keys to move it one source pixel at a time, or hold Shift for ten.

Transparent sheets are handled

Detection switches to reading the alpha channel, so dark artwork on a transparent background is not mistaken for empty space.

Fewer colours, smaller file

GIF stores a limited palette. Dropping to 64 colours often halves the file with little visible change on flat artwork.

Ping-pong doubles the frames

It plays forward then backward, which makes short loops smoother but roughly doubles the file size.

Why use this one

Detection plus manual control

Automatic tools fail on unusual sheets; manual tools make you do the work every time. Here detection gives you the starting point and you keep the last word.

Pixel-accurate cutting

Tile boundaries are computed so that neighbouring tiles meet exactly - no dropped column of pixels between them, no stray edge on the last one.

Sharp preview on any screen

The preview is rendered at your display's real pixel density, so you can see precisely where a line sits.

Works on touch

Lines can be dragged with a finger without the page scrolling out from under you.

Free, no account, no watermark

No sign up, no export limit and nothing stamped on the result.

Your file stays yours

Unreleased game art and private artwork never leave the machine.

Frequently asked questions

It scans for rows and columns that are almost entirely background colour, treats those as the gaps between tiles, and puts a cutting line down the middle of each gap. On transparent images it reads the alpha channel instead of colour.

That usually means the tiles sit edge to edge with no gap between them - there is nothing to detect. Pick the preset that matches your sheet, or drag the lines into place yourself.

Yes, that is the point. Drag any line, add or remove lines, or select one and nudge it with the arrow keys.

Yes. Set the output to one GIF per row or per column - a 4×6 sheet then becomes six four-frame GIFs, downloaded separately.

Yes. GIF only supports fully transparent or fully opaque pixels, so soft edges get a hard cut, but transparent areas stay transparent rather than turning black.

Frame count, dimensions and colour count all multiply. Try fewer colours, fewer tiles, or avoid ping-pong ordering, which doubles the frames.

The sequence plays forward and then backward, so the loop has no jump at the end. It roughly doubles the number of frames and therefore the file size.

Yes. Download tiles as ZIP gives you each tile as a separate PNG, numbered in order with leading zeros so they sort correctly.

No. Everything happens in your browser. The image is never sent to a server, so nobody else can see it.

The first frame is used as the source image. If you want to split an existing animation into its frames, use the GIF splitter instead.

They differ, and some do not accept GIF at all - Telegram wants a 512px PNG or WebP for static stickers and WEBM for animated ones. Check the platform's current guidance before exporting.

Yes. You can drag the cutting lines with a finger, though large sheets are easier to line up on a bigger screen.

Related tools

Other ways to work with grids and animations.