A PDF has no way to play an animation, so an animated GIF cannot survive the conversion intact. Utilitly places the first frame and nothing else: one GIF becomes one page showing the image as it appears at the moment it starts. Nothing errors and nothing is silently dropped — you simply get frame one. Most converters do the same thing without telling you, which is why people are surprised by the result. We don't offer a way to extract every frame of a GIF; that needs a dedicated frame-extraction tool, which this isn't.
GIF stores at most 256 colours per image. That is fine for logos, diagrams, screenshots of text and line art, but photographs saved as GIF show visible banding across gradients — and converting to PDF preserves that banding, because it is already baked into the file. If your source is a photograph, convert the original JPG or PNG instead of a GIF version of it.
A GIF is usually something somebody sent you — a reaction, a captured clip, a screen recording saved as a still. Running that through a random upload form just to get a PDF means handing it to a server you don't control, for a conversion your own browser can already do without leaving the page. Utilitly reads the GIF, places its first frame, and builds the PDF on your machine — there's no round trip for it to make.
The tool supports every common image format alongside GIF:
A single PDF doesn't have to be all GIFs — drop in a JPG photo or a PNG screenshot alongside them, and every image lands on its own page in whatever order you set.
Add your GIF to the tool above, add more images if you want them in the same document, and download the PDF. It all happens in your browser — nothing is uploaded.
No. The PDF format has no way to play an animation. Your animated GIF becomes a single page showing its first frame, which is the standard behaviour for every GIF-to-PDF converter — we would rather say so up front.
No. Utilitly places only the first frame of each GIF you add — we don't offer a tool that extracts individual frames from an animated GIF, and that requires software built specifically for that job. If you already have the individual frames as separate image files from somewhere else, you can add all of them here and each will become its own page, in order.
GIF supports only 256 colours per image, so photographs and smooth gradients band when they are saved in that format. The banding is already in the GIF; converting to PDF preserves the image exactly as it is rather than adding to it.
Yes. Add as many as you like — one page per GIF, in the order you add them, and you can drag to reorder before converting.
Your GIF is never uploaded. Conversion happens locally in your browser using pdf-lib, so the file never reaches a server.
Yes. GIF, JPG, PNG, WebP, BMP, SVG and AVIF can all be pages of the same PDF.