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Add Image to GIF

Overlay a logo, a sticker or a photo onto an animated GIF, free.

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Free Online Add Image to GIF

Put your mark on a GIF without breaking the animation.

Why use our Add Image to GIF tool?

Dropping a logo onto a GIF normally means an editor and a re-export. Upload both here and the overlay rides along with the animation.

Built for the browser

Works right in your browser, free, with no software to install and no watermarks.

The animation keeps running

Your image sits on top of every frame while the GIF plays underneath.

Place it where you want

Move the overlay, scale it and set how visible it is.

Quality preserved

Cloudinary keeps your output crisp and true to the original.

Do it at scale

Process one file or thousands with our free API and add an image to a GIF automatically, with no manual steps.

Format versatility

Works with all major formats, so your result fits right into your workflow.

How to add an image to a GIF in 3 steps

Add your image in 3 simple steps. Upload the GIF, add your overlay, and download.

Upload your GIF

Drag and drop your animated GIF into the browser, or upload it from your device.

Add your image

Upload the logo, sticker or photo you want on top and place it.

Download

Save your result, with no watermarks.

Go beyond an overlay

Work on your GIFs with more free tools: Add Text to GIF, Rotate GIF, GIF to WebP.

A woman and a golden retriever in the mountains. They're sitting, facing away from the camera while the dog noses the woman. They're surrounded by natural splendor including majestic mountains, puffy clouds, and evergreen-studded hills.
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A woman and a golden retriever in the mountains. They're sitting, facing away from the camera while the dog noses the woman. They're surrounded by natural splendor including majestic mountains, puffy clouds, and evergreen-studded hills.
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Frequently Asked Questions

It places a second image, such as a logo, a sticker or a photo, on top of an animated GIF, and the result is still an animated GIF. The overlay stays fixed while the animation plays behind it, which is how a watermark or a brand mark on a looping clip normally works.

Yes. The overlay is composited onto every frame and the frame timings are kept, so the loop plays exactly as it did before with your image sitting on top of it.

Yes, it is free to use online, with nothing to install and no mark of ours added to your animation. Upload the GIF, add the image you want on top, position it and download. The result is a standard animated GIF, so it plays anywhere the original did.

A PNG with transparency is the best choice, because only your logo or shape shows rather than a white rectangle around it. A JPG works too, it will just sit as a solid block on top of the animation. If your logo only exists as a JPG on white, removing that background first will make the overlay look far more professional.

Yes. Overlays are a delivery transformation in the Cloudinary API, so you can brand user uploaded GIFs on the fly without storing a second copy of each file, and change or remove the branding later by changing the URL rather than re-processing the library.

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