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GIF Templates for Marketing and Social Media

Each template sets up the fiddly part — output size, aspect ratio, background and pre-positioned captions — and then waits for your footage. Open one and the editor is already configured for where the GIF is going.

  • No upload
  • No sign-up
  • No watermark

Layout presets

Six starting points covering the shapes that social feeds, docs and chat apps actually accept.

  • Square social post

    1:1600×6001 caption

    The safe default for feeds that crop everything to a square. One caption runs along the bottom edge, high enough to clear the interface chrome most apps overlay there.

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  • Vertical story

    9:16540×9601 caption

    Full-height 9:16 for stories and short-form video. The caption sits in the upper third, above where reply boxes and thumbs usually land.

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  • Wide product demo

    16:9800×4501 caption

    A 16:9 frame with contain fit, so a screen recording keeps its whole window instead of being cropped. The title is left-aligned in the top corner, out of the way of the interface you are demonstrating.

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  • Top and bottom caption

    1:1600×6002 captions

    The two-line layout: heavy white text with a thick black outline at the top and the bottom, sized to stay legible after a messenger re-encodes the file.

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  • Lower third

    16:9800×4502 captions

    A title with a smaller line beneath it in the lower left — the layout broadcast uses for names and roles. Good for a feature name plus one line of explanation.

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  • Subtitle strip

    16:9640×3601 caption

    A plain caption line near the bottom edge, outlined rather than boxed and not bolded, for putting dialogue under a short clip.

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How templates work

Three steps, none of which involve a download.

  1. 1

    Pick the shape you need

    Choose the template whose aspect ratio matches the destination. The editor opens with the canvas already at that size, so nothing has to be re-cropped later.

  2. 2

    Drop in your own media

    Add a video or a set of images. The canvas keeps the template size and your footage is fitted into it, instead of the first file deciding the output dimensions.

  3. 3

    Rewrite the captions, then export

    Placeholder text is already positioned, weighted and outlined. Replace the words, move anything you like, and export a GIF, a video or a frame sequence.

What these templates contain

No artwork. A template here is a project preset: canvas dimensions, fit mode, background and a caption layout with the right size, weight and outline. The pictures are yours.

That is partly a principle and partly a constraint. GifBench never contacts a server once the page has loaded, so there is nothing to fetch a stock animation from — and a gallery of someone else's clips would be their work wrapped in our branding.

The practical upside: opening a template is instant, works offline, and leaves you with a project that is entirely your own material.

Questions people actually ask

Do the templates come with animations?
No. Each one sets the canvas size, background and caption layout, and you supply the footage. Nothing is downloaded when you open a template.
Can I change the output size after opening one?
Yes. The size is locked so that importing your first clip cannot silently resize the canvas, but the lock is a toggle in the Canvas tab and the width and height stay editable.
Are templates a paid feature?
No. Every template is free and none of them add a watermark. A paid licence only lifts the export resolution and colour ceilings.

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