Will I get an actual GIF or an MP4?

An MP4, because that is what Imgur is storing. MP4 is dramatically smaller than the equivalent GIF and plays everywhere. If you genuinely need a GIF file, convert the MP4 afterwards.

Does it work on an album with several items?

Album and gallery links are read, and the video from the post is what comes back. For a post that is a long series of separate images, downloading them individually gives you more control over what you actually keep.

Is the Imgur to MP4 converter free?

Yes — no email, sign-up or watermark, and 60 conversions an hour without an account.

Will my Imgur file stay private?

Yes. Every file is virus-scanned in full, served over a private link, and purged after 2 hours.

Is there a file size limit?

Single files up to 2 GB (4 GB signed in, for results under 2 GB).

LinksConverter

Imgur Video Downloader

Download Imgur videos and animated posts as MP4. Worth knowing before you start: most of what looks like a GIF on Imgur has not been a GIF for years. Imgur re-encodes uploaded GIFs to MP4 because the file ends up a fraction of the size, and .gifv is not a video container at all — it is an HTML page with an MP4 inside it, which is why saving one gives you a web page instead of a video.

Drag & drop a file hereor click to browse from your device

What you can download from Imgur

Imgur gallery posts and single video posts
Animated posts that Imgur stores as MP4
Direct i.imgur.com links
Public posts, with no Imgur account needed

Imgur to MP4 in practice

Imgur to MP4 gets you the video Imgur is actually hosting. Imgur converted its 'GIFs' to MP4 and WebM long ago — that is what GIFV meant — so the thing playing in your browser is a video file even when the page and the URL still say GIF. Saving it the obvious way often lands you a still frame or a bloated re-encode.

Paste the imgur.com or i.imgur.com link and you get the underlying MP4, which is smaller and cleaner than any GIF version of the same clip. Public posts only. Imgur also prunes old and inactive uploads, so anything you want to keep from years back is worth pulling down now rather than assuming the link will still resolve.

Why use LinksConverter for Imgur downloads

Fast cloud pipeline
ClamAV scanned
Auto-deleted after 2 hours
No sign-up, no watermark

How it works

How to download Imgur videos as MP4

Copy the Imgur link
Open the Imgur video and tap Share → Copy link. Any public URL from Imgur works, including short-form video.
Paste the URL into the converter
Paste the link into the input box on this page. The converter automatically recognises Imgur URLs.
Start the MP4 export
Click Convert. Our cloud worker pulls the highest-quality stream Imgur offers and packages it as MP4.
Download the MP4 file
When the export finishes you get a private, pre-signed download link. The file is deleted from our servers automatically after 2 hours.

Imgur to MP4 — Frequently asked questions

Nothing on your end — .gifv is not a real file format. It is an Imgur page that plays an MP4, so saving the address saves the page. Paste the link here instead and you get the MP4 that page was playing.

Imgur Video Downloader

What you can download from Imgur

Imgur to MP4 in practice

Why use LinksConverter for Imgur downloads

How to download Imgur videos as MP4

Copy the Imgur link

Paste the URL into the converter

Start the MP4 export

Download the MP4 file

Imgur to MP4 — Frequently asked questions

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