I spent way too long last week clicking through a folder of 300 animated GIFs one at a time in my image viewer, and I realized I was doing this wrong. Every tool I tried — IrfanView, XnView MP, Honeyview — showed frozen thumbnails or made me open each file individually. I needed to actually see them all moving at once to pick the right one.
Animated GIF Gallery Viewer does exactly that. You point it at a folder and the whole collection plays in a scrollable grid right in your browser. The performance is solid even with thousands of files, and the pause function actually works the way you'd expect — it freezes the animation exactly where you're looking at instead of snapping back to frame one. The frame-by-frame stepping with arrow keys is genuinely useful for finding specific moments.
What got me is how simple the whole thing is. It's just HTML and JavaScript, no installation, nothing syncs anywhere, your files stay on your machine. Works in any browser. If you're dealing with a large GIF collection and tired of fighting your operating system's total inability to handle them properly, this solves the actual problem.
Check it out: Animated GIF Gallery Viewer
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