About EmoteSizer

EmoteSizer is a free, browser-based emote maker built for streamers and content creators. We help you find the perfect GIF or sticker and resize it into an emote for Twitch, Discord, Kick, 7TV, BTTV, and FFZ — all without signing up or installing anything.

What We Do

Why EmoteSizer?

Built for the Streaming Community

EmoteSizer was created because existing emote tools were either too basic, too expensive, or didn't combine GIF discovery with optimization. We wanted a single tool where streamers could find a GIF, resize it, and have it ready to upload — all in one flow.

Whether you're a Twitch Affiliate uploading your first emote or a Partner managing hundreds, EmoteSizer has you covered.

Our Story

EmoteSizer started as a weekend project. One of us was trying to help a streamer friend upload her first set of Twitch emotes and ran into the usual wall: the GIF was a few kilobytes over the 1 MB limit, the only "free" online resizer slapped a watermark on the export, and the desktop tools that actually worked required installing software and reading a tutorial. What should have been a five-minute job turned into an afternoon of fighting with tools that were either paywalled, bloated, or obviously designed a decade ago for a different web.

That frustration is what the first version of EmoteSizer was built to fix — a single page that would let a streamer drop in a GIF, pick Twitch or Discord, and walk away with a properly sized, properly compressed emote. No account, no watermark, no upload to a stranger's server. The encoder ran entirely in the browser using WebAssembly so the file never had to leave the user's laptop in the first place.

Word got around. A few streamers linked us in their mod channels, then Reddit found the compressor, and within a couple of months we were processing more GIFs per day than we had imagined getting in a year. We've spent the time since then adding the rest of the toolkit — trim, crop, speed, reverse, loop, rotate, video-to-GIF, and a dozen other small utilities — each one scratching a specific itch our users wrote in about.

Who We Are

EmoteSizer is an independent project run by a small team of streamers and web developers based in the United States. We are not a venture-funded startup, we are not affiliated with Twitch, Discord, Kick, 7TV, BTTV, or FFZ, and we are not trying to build a "platform" — we are a couple of people who care about emotes and build tools we want to use ourselves. Every decision on the site, from the exact compression strategy used for Discord's 256 KB limit to the color of the download button, has been made by someone who has personally tried to upload a too-big GIF and sworn at the error message. If you have feedback, it lands in an inbox that an actual human reads.

How We Keep Tools Free

Running EmoteSizer has real costs — domain registration, hosting, CDN bandwidth, the third-party search API that powers our GIF discovery — and we don't charge for any of our tools. To keep the lights on, we display ads served by Google AdSense. That's the entire business model: ads pay for the servers, the servers serve the tools, and the tools stay free and unlocked for everyone. We will never put a feature behind a paywall, never watermark your downloads, and never sell your data. If ads ever stop being enough to cover costs, we'll ask for donations before we touch the free tier.

Editorial Standards

The educational content on EmoteSizer — every "how to compress a GIF for Twitch" guide, every FAQ entry, every platform-specific size table — is written in-house by team members who actively use these tools. We don't outsource editorial work to content mills, and we don't auto-generate copy with AI. When a platform changes an emote size requirement (as Twitch has done twice since we launched), a human updates the relevant pages manually and verifies the new limits against the platform's official documentation.

We try to be honest about what our tools can and can't do. If a compression strategy is going to visibly degrade your GIF, the UI says so. If a platform's file-size limit is a soft guideline rather than a hard block, we note the distinction. And when we're wrong — which we sometimes are — we correct the page rather than quietly reword it. Factual errors can be reported via our contact page; we appreciate the help.

What's Next

On the near-term roadmap: a batch-mode optimizer for streamers uploading a full emote set at once, native WebP/AVIF output for the platforms that support them, and a desktop-class timeline editor for users who want frame-accurate control over the animations they're trimming. Feature requests are welcome — many of the tools on this site started as an email from a user who wanted to do something our existing utilities couldn't.