GIF Templates

TGS to GIF

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TGS sticker

Example GIF made from a TGS sticker

A green blob with a smiling face hopping and blinking, with a yellow star spinning above it, on a transparent background
A 2-second TGS sticker at Size 256 px and 33 frames per second, with Transparent background on.

How to convert TGS to GIF

  1. Press Choose image and pick a .tgs sticker file.
  2. Pick a Size and the Frames per second.
  3. Keep Transparent background on, or turn it off and pick a Background color.
  4. Press Download GIF.

What a TGS file is

Telegram's animated stickers are TGS files: Lottie animations, drawn from shapes rather than pixels. They are 512 x 512 px and run for up to 3 seconds at 30 to 60 frames per second. The tool draws the animation frame by frame and saves it as a GIF.

TGS to GIF settings

Size is 512, 256 or 128 px on the long side. 512 is the sticker's own size.

Frames per second is 50, 33, 25 or 20, rates GIF timing can show. More frames move more smoothly and make a bigger file. The GIF runs as long as the sticker and never has more frames a second than the sticker itself.

Transparent background is on by default. GIF has no partial transparency, so pixels less than half opaque become clear and soft edges look harder. Turn it off and pick a Background color to keep the edges smooth.

What to do with the GIF

Post a sticker outside Telegram: in other chats, on forums or in emails. A transparent 128 px GIF works as a small emote.

TGS to GIF limits

The tool reads up to 100 frames of a sticker at 512 px. A sticker up to 2 seconds long is read at up to 50 frames a second. A longer one is read at fewer, 33 for a 3-second sticker, so a higher setting gives the same GIF.