Turn a Few Images Into a Looping GIF Without a Screen Recorder
Select the images, right-click, and get one looping .gif back — no recording, no separate GIF tool to open.
Summary
A quick looping GIF is often all a demo needs — lighter than a captioned video, and it plays inline anywhere without a video player. Making one usually still means a screen recorder or a separate GIF-editing site, for images that are already sitting in a folder.
The GIF Maker plugin skips both. Select the images in Filer, in the order they should play, right-click, and Combine into GIF... — behind that menu item is the same configured model that answers chat, deciding to call the actual GIF-combining tool on your behalf.
Follow along
The screens below are from an actual run of the plugin — the same 4 images, combined into the GIF shown at the end.
Needs: the GIF Maker plugin installed and a Chat AI configured (local or remote) — the right-click action is itself a prompt handed to your configured model, which is the one that decides to call the tool.
Select the images, right-click
Multi-select the images in the order you want them to play, right-click, and open Actions → Combine into GIF...
Pick the speed and looping
The dialog asks how long each frame stays on screen and whether the GIF loops forever or plays once — both have a sensible default. Sending it hands those settings and the image list to your configured model as a prompt.
The model calls the tool, you get back one looping .gif
The model reads the prompt, calls the actual GIF-combining tool with the images and settings, and the images play back to back, saved as a new file right next to the sources.
The actual GIF this workflow produced — not a mockup.
Other ways to reach the same result
Typed in chat, no right-click — since the menu item is already just a prompt to the model, asking a folder's agent in chat to "combine these four images into a GIF" reaches the exact same tool call directly, no image selection needed first.
On a schedule or a file event — the same tool call works from a scheduled or file-triggered agent: a folder that watches for new screenshots could refresh a status GIF on its own each time one lands.
This isn't a mockup — the GIF above comes from an actual run of the plugin's own GIF-combining tool against 4 real images. The full right-click-to-chat-to-tool path pictured above was separately verified end to end against a real configured model before this page was written.
Where else this applies
Anywhere a quick, lightweight loop beats a full video fits the same shape:
- Chat and forum previews — a few screenshots turned into a GIF that plays inline without anyone clicking to open a video.
- Before/after comparisons — two or three progress shots from a project folder, looped so the change is obvious at a glance.
- A step up from a static screenshot — when a single image doesn't show enough, but a full captioned video (see the video-compose usecase) is more than the moment needs.
What it needs
- The GIF Maker plugin installed — no separate service, no external tool
- 2 to 20 images (.png, .jpg, .jpeg, .webp, .bmp), all the same size, selected in the order they should play