Giphy is launching another GIF-creation tool today, and the big hook is that theres nothing to install. Its latest tool is on the web and designed for mobile, so you can just visit the site and start creating a weird GIF. I uploaded a photo of my cat, and Im sorry to say that Ive turned it into the GIF you see above.

The mobile GIF Maker site offers the same kind of irreverent experience that Giphys other GIF-making tools do. You can take or upload a photo or video and then add text, stickers, and other animations on top of them, so youre basically putting GIFs on top of a GIF. New to the mobile website is a drawing tool that lets you create wiggly lines. Theres also a feature called Dog/Cat Draw, which is where you draw... but your ink is an increasingly long dog / cat.

As stupidly fun as Giphys other GIF-making tools

The site is also supposed to let you make GIFs out of photos and videos youve found elsewhere, like a YouTube video, but I couldnt get that feature to work. I only tried the site on my Android phone, and I got the impression that the site was probably designed more with iOS in mind. For instance, I had to use the Files app (which presents everything on your phone in an endless list) to browse through my photos, rather than being able to look through Google Photos.

Still, the site works once youve picked out or taken your photo, its simple to use, and Giphy pretty much makes it impossible to not make something thats stupidly fun. It offers a somewhat different experience than the Giphy Cam app, too, though the real benefit here is that more people will be able to access it, since its just a matter of visiting a website and not installing a 178MB app first.

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Giphy now lets you create ridiculous GIFs on mobile without an app - The Verge