4 Best Ways to Add Music to GIFs (Online, Mac, iPhone, Android)

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Last Updated: 2023. 01. 09

If you are reading this, you must be a creative person and are looking for a great way to add music to GIFs to wow viewers on social media. Luckily, with right the GIF editors, adding custom music and audio files to GIFs couldn’t be easier!

So, in this tutorial, we will walk you through the 4 best ways to add music to a GIF. So, you can easily remix funny GIFs with any music, sound effects, or voiceovers for a hilarious lyric video or a video meme.

Here’s What You Will Learn:

How to Add Music to GIFs Online

How to Add Music to a GIF in iMovie on Mac

How to Add Music to a GIF on iPhone

How to Add Music to a GIF on Android

Also, read how to add GIF to GIF.

A quick takeaway for adding music to a GIF:

Since the GIF format doesn’t support audio, you may add music to a GIF first and then save it as an MP4 or other formats that can store both visual and audio data.

How to Add Music to GIFs Online

If you want to remix multiple GIFs with music, sound effects, or other audio files to create a hilarious lyric video or video meme, then the feature-packed FlexClip online video maker and GIF editor can be your go-to choice.

Easily add music to GIFs by FlexClip online.

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With FlexClip, you can:

Easily add music and other audio files to GIFs on the intuitive timeline to do the beat edits and create a funny GIF video.

Layer multiple audio files on different audio tracks to create depth for the GIFs combined.

Add trendy transitions like a liquid, glitch, circle, glitch,etc. between GIFs combined.

Directly search for and use GIPHY’s trending GIFs for edits within FlexClip.

Access 74,000+ high-quality and royalty-free music tracks and sound effects.

Merge, flip, rotate, crop, resize and animate GIFs or adjust GIFs’ duration to match a long music/audio or link music to a specific GIF/scene.

Support extensive audio files (M4A, FLAC, MP3, WMA, WAV, AAC, OGG, etc.) and upload GIFs from your PC, Google Drive, Dropbox, One Drive, Instagram, Facebook, or Google Photos.

Add image/dynamic video backgrounds and compelling text animations to GIFs.

Use designer-made and fully customizable lyric video templates.

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Purple Lyrics Template

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For Love Lyric Video

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Pop Music Lyrics Wave Youtube Intro Outro

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How to add music to GIFs using FlexClip online:

Step 1

Access FlexClip and upload your GIFs and audio files from your PC, Google Drive, Dropbox, One Drive, Instagram, Facebook, etc.

Upload your GIFs and audio files to FlexClip.

If you don’t have any GIFs yet, no worries! Click the Photo tab > GIF > you can type in keywords to directly browse through trendy GIFs from GIPHY and add them to the intuitive timeline for edits.

Directly search for and use trending GIFs from GIPHY within FlexClip.

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Step 2

Set the video aspect ratio needed (16:9, 9:16, 4:5, 1:1) and the default aspect ratio is 16:9. You may also set the video duration for each GIF to match the audio length.

Set video duration and aspect ratio needed.

Step 3

Add music to the GIF.

Add a GIF to the timeline > you can resize, flip, or rotate the GIF to fill the screen or crop it into a circle, square, or other shapes. > add the music to the audio track > you may trim, split the audio or add a fade-in/out effect for a smooth transition. Or do the beat edits by matching the movement of the GIF with the audio waveform.

Add the GIF and music to the timeline and align them with each other.

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Alternatively, you can click the Audio tab > search for multiple music or sound effects that match the vibes of your GIFs.

Add royalty-free music and sound effects to GIFs.

Or click the Text tab to add custom text animations like lower thirds, profiles, speech bubbles, etc., and later customize the text, text fonts, colors, animations, duration, layers, etc.

Add animated texts to enhance the vibes.

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Step 4

Preview and share.

Done with the editing. You can directly download the 1080P video to your PC or directly share it to YouTube, Google Drive, One Drive, Dropbox, or TikTok; a clickable link and an embed code are also available for blogs, newsletters, or another repurposing. Pretty handy!

Ease of sharing in multiple ways.

How to Add Music to a GIF with iMovie on Mac

If you are a Mac user, you may also pre-install iMovie to add music to a GIF. However, the tricky thing is that you can’t directly import a GIF to iMovie, otherwise, the GIF will become a still image in iMovie. You need to convert to GIF to a video first and then use iMovie to add music to your GIF video.

Add music to GIFs in iMovie.

Step 1

Convert GIFs to a video.

Step 2

Open iMovie on your Mac and import the GIF video and music.

Step 3

Add the GIF video to the timeline and add music to the audio track. If the GIF video was too short, you can duplicate it to align it with a long music or audio track.

How to Add Music to a GIF on iPhone

If you have saved GIFs on your iPhone, you can use GIF maker, a free app in the Apple store, to add music to your GIFs. This app has built-in a lot of animate effects that you can add to your GIF files. GIF Maker has a timeline feature, which you can easily delete the part you do not need, and sync sound and video.

Add music to a GIF using GIF maker on iPhone.

Step 1

Open the GIF Make app and import your GIF files.

Step 2

Split the part you do not need, and then add the music you like into your GIF. And you also can add text, filters, elements, and more effects to your videos or GIFs.

Step 3

When you finish editing, tap the checkmark button at the top of the right corner. Also read, how to remove sound from iPhone videos.

How to Add Music to a GIF on Android

If you have GIFs on Android phone like Samsung, another viable option to add music to a GIF is using Coub, which is available in Google Play.

Add music to a GIF on Android by Coub app.

Coub is the best GIF editing app, you can use this app to create video loops from YouTube, GIF, Camera, and many resources, and add cool music to make this loop look so funny! And this app also has a GIF resource library. It would be best if you found the GIF file to fit for your need, and you can also upload your won GIF files.

Step 1

Open this app, and click the camera button at the top of the right corner to upload your GIF files. You can choose "From Camera", "From Video Link", or "From Library".

Step 2

Crop the part you do not need and apply it. If you want to add another GIF resource, you just need to click the "+" button.

Step 3

In the button of the interface, there is an "Add Music" button, you can add music or sound to this GIF file, and you also can apply the original video sound. When you finish editing, click the apply button at the top of the right corner so that you can share the GIF with music online.

Now, It's Your Move

Adding music or any audio files to a GIF has been pretty easy these days. Given the flexibility and rich GIF and audio resources, FlexClip has the edge over other tools. Nevertheless, feel free to experiment with them all and share this post on your Facebook or Twitter and tag us to tell us which GIF editor works best for you. Cheers!

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Passionate about photography, video-making and travel, Frank is a seasoned copywriter and a beloved father of 2-year-old daughter at FlexClip. He is always keen to share his latest discovery about video marketing and tricks to relive your memories through videos and images.