Observed arrival · 2026-10-06

lessgif: GIF editing without the upload

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Editorial interest 78/100 Selection signal · not a rating of the site

A browser-based toolkit for converting, compressing, and editing GIFs, with command-line and desktop versions of its encoder.

Landing page captured for the 2026-10-06 issue.

For: People editing GIFs without uploading files
Worth noticing: Its benchmark compares median file size at matched SSIMULACRA2 scores, while noting there has been no blind viewing test.

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The page lists browser tools for video and image conversion, compression, resizing, cropping, trimming, playback changes, text, frame splitting, and GIF-to-MP4 export. It identifies the encoder as a 179 KB WebAssembly module running in a worker and says files stay in the tab. Published benchmarks compare 363 film clips with gifski and 281 GIFs with gifsicle, while disclosing that no blind viewing test has been done.

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