Put a GIF on home screen: a looping widget gif or video, plus text widgets
GIF Widget puts a looping GIF or short silent video on your home screen as a widget, and it keeps playing even after the app is closed.
Many animated widgets freeze as soon as their app is closed or cleared from memory. Here the animation is played by your home screen itself, so your GIF on home screen keeps moving, whether the app is open or not.
Bring any animation to your home screen
• Pick a GIF from your phone: downloads, gallery or any folder
• Share a GIF to the app from GIPHY, your keyboard (for example Gboard), WhatsApp or the browser
• Turn a short video into a video widget: choose the start point and your widget video loops silently (up to 3 seconds, or 6 seconds with Pro)
Make it yours
• Crop with drag and pinch, in Original, Square, Wide, Tall, 4:3 or 3:4
• Add rounded corners for a softer look
• Transparent GIFs keep their transparency, so a transparent GIF widget sits on your wallpaper like a sticker
• Choose Low, Medium or High quality (High is part of Pro)
• Preview your widget GIF on a home screen mockup before adding it
• Resize the widget like any other
Choose what a tap does
• Open GIF Widget, open another app, open a website, or do nothing
Light on battery
• The animation pauses automatically while the screen is off
• No background service
How it works
1. Choose a GIF, a short video or photos, write your text, or share a file from another app
2. Crop it and pick a shape, quality and corners
3. Check the preview
4. Tap "Add to home screen", or add it later from your launcher's widget list
Photo widget and slideshow
• Put your own photos on the home screen: one photo for a photo widget, or up to 10 for a photo slideshow widget
• Show each photo for 2, 5, 10 or 30 seconds, crop it to the shape you like and add rounded corners
• Photos are chosen with Android's photo picker, so the app only sees the photos you pick
Text widget for notes and quotes
• Put text on home screen: a note, a quote or a reminder, in your own words
• A custom text widget: choose the text size, alignment, text color and background color
• Make it a transparent text widget: lower the background opacity until only your text shows on the wallpaper
One-time purchase, no subscription
One widget is included. Pro unlocks unlimited widgets, High quality, bigger files and longer video clips, and removes ads, as a one-time purchase. No subscription.
Private by design
No account. Your GIFs, videos, photos and text stay on your device and are never uploaded. We collect anonymous usage stats and crash reports to improve the app. The free version shows ads, which use your advertising ID where you allow it; Pro removes them.
Good to know
On Android 15 and later, using Force stop on an app pauses its widgets until the app is opened again. This is how Android works: just open the app once and your widgets play again.
Turn your favorite GIF or clip into a video widget and give your home screen some life.