1Upload the GIF animations that came out the wrong way round.
2Pick a turn of 90, 180 or 270 degrees.
3Apply the rotation; the pixels and the orientation flag are reconciled so every viewer agrees on which way is up.
4Download the rotated GIF file.
Rotate GIF FAQ
Can I rotate a whole batch in one go?
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Several files in one job need a paid plan. Free use is one file per conversion, one conversion an hour. On a paid plan you can add several files to one job, then download each result on its own or all of them in one ZIP.
How does Rotate GIF turn the file?
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Concretely, each frame is rotated by the same amount and the palette is preserved, so timing and loop behaviour survive; the canvas dimensions swap on a quarter turn, which is expected rather than a bug. Quarter turns and half turns are the common case and take the cheapest path available for the format.
Can I run Rotate GIF on several GIF animations at once?
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Yes, and it is worth doing — per-file overhead on an animation is dominated by decoding every frame, so a batch amortises far better than the equivalent set of single runs.
Does Rotate GIF cost anything?
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No. Rotate GIF is free without an account and adds no watermark. The upload and the result are deleted automatically about 24 hours after the job, which leaves time to download the result.
What can I upload to Rotate GIF?
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Animated and static GIFs, plus animated WebP. Still images work too and are treated as a single-frame animation, which is occasionally what you want when building one.
Will Rotate GIF lower the quality of my GIF animations?
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The binding constraint on a GIF is not the operation, it is the 256-colour palette. Anything that changes pixel values forces a re-quantisation against a palette shared by every frame, which is where banding and dithering come from. Frame timing and loop count are preserved.
Does Rotate GIF belong on a site about a photo format?
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JPEG.to is built around the format that carries nearly every photograph in existence — thirty years old, opened by literally everything, and still the right default for a photographic image. The jobs people bring here are the ones a photograph collects over its life — too big to email, wrong dimensions for a form, wrong way up out of a phone. Rotate GIF runs on the same upload and the same account as the conversions because that is where those jobs land.
What is the sensible next step after Rotate GIF?
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The converter on this site moves images to and from JPEG, PNG, WebP and HEIC, which is where the trade between file size and one more generation of loss gets settled. Deciding the format last rather than first is the whole point: every extra save of a photographic image is another generation, and the fewer of them you spend, the more of the picture survives.
Is this the same engine as the other converter sites?
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Yes — the same libraries, the same workers, the same caps. The difference is which advice is on the page, and here that advice is built on one property of the format the site is named after: the .jpeg and .jpg extensions are the same bitstream, so nothing here behaves differently from a .jpg — only the filename changes.
Is anything kept, and do I need to sign in?
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No account is needed. Uploads and results are kept for about 24 hours, which leaves time to download the result, and are then deleted automatically; nobody reads, lists or indexes them. Several files in one job need a paid plan.
