15 Useful Javascript GIF Image Libraries

No matter how you pronounce it, GIFs are just cool. Using GIF is a great way to grab your viewer’s attention and highlight certain elements. So in this post I’ve collected some useful Javascript libraries for dealing with GIF images that will help you to display cat gifs.

Hyena

This is a lightweight, unobtrusive and responsive animated GIF script. Compared to video conversion methods like webM, Hyena delivers better performance, faster load times, easier styling and more sophisticated event interaction – without the restrictions of an HTML5 video player.

Hyena

Gifffer

A tiny JavaScript library that prevents the autoplaying of the animated Gifs.

Gifffer


Gif.js

Full-featured JavaScript GIF encoder that runs in your browser.

Gif.js


Freezeframe.js

This is a library that pauses animated .gifs and enables them to animate on mouse hover / mouse click / touch event, or with trigger / release functions.

Freezeframe.js


Libgif Js

JavaScript GIF parser and player. This is an attempt to pull out the gif parsing and playing logic, seperate it from the bookmarklet, and publish it as a library that you can use in your project.

Libgif Js


Gifuct Js

It is a library for parsing & decompressing GIF files right in the browser using javascript.

Gifuct Js


Preview Gif

JavaScript library that downloads only the first frame of an animated GIF for preview.

Preview Gif


Animated_GIF

A library that makes creating animated GIFs easy. Everything is client-side, using JavaScript.

Animated_GIF


Jsgif

Save a HTML5 Canvas to GIF and Animations. A port of as3gif GIFPlayer to JS.

Jsgif


Gifshot

JavaScript library that can create animated GIFs from media streams, videos, or images.

Gifshot


Giflinks

A simple javascript library used for adding full screen gif action as a hover effect.

Giflinks


Gifplayer

Customizable jquery plugin to play and stop animated gifs. Similar to 9gag’s. Support for video formats.

Gifplayer


Gif Player

WebComponent to control Animated GIF playback and access individual frames.

Gif Player


Gif Frames

A pure JavaScript tool for extracting GIF frames and saving to file. Works in Node or the browser.

Gif Frames


Toolgif

The only GIF tooltip plugin you need.

Toolgif


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