GIFs are fun, digestible, and, most importantly, relatable -- which is why everybody loves them and shares them on social media and then much.

Additionally, since Instagram is the tiptop social media platform for visual content, your followers await your brand to post more compelling content than just the photos of your visitor'south complimentary luncheon each week. *Bonus Content* Click here to unlock 20 powerful strategies & hacks for increasing Instagram engagement.

Your audience desire to feel something when they scroll through Instagram, and GIFs tin can forge that emotional connection with them.

Below, we'll evidence you how to post a GIF on Instagram -- with a series of GIFs -- and share some of the social network'due south all-time GIF apps.

How to Post a GIF on Instagram

  1. Download the gratuitous GIPHY app.
  2. Open up GIPHY.
  3. Search for a GIF.
  4. Press the "share" button in between the middle and the 3 dots (it looks like a paper airplane).
  5. Printing the Instagram share push button.
  6. Allow GIPHY to access your photos.
  7. Permit GIPHY to open your Instagram app.
  8. Choose to mail service the GIF to your story or feed.
  9. Add together a filter, a caption, and share!

Here's a series of GIFs that will show you lot exactly how to postal service a GIF on Instagram:

ane. Download and open GIPHY.

You tin can notice GIPHY in the Apple and Google Play app stores.

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ii. Search for a GIF and tap the i you like.

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3. Press the "share" button in between the heart and the three dots (it looks like a paper airplane).

It will drop downward to a screen with all the platforms you can share the GIF on.

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4. Press the Instagram share push button.

This is where GIPHY will give you 1 or two notifications asking if it can access your photos and open Instagram -- striking "OK" or "Allow".

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5. Cull to post the GIF to your story or feed.

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6. Add a filter, a caption, and share!

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The 6 Best Instagram GIF Apps

1. GIPHY

GIPHY has the world's largest library of blithe GIFs and stickers.

Gratis on IOS and Android

4.7/5.0 Rating

2. Giphy Cam

On Giphy Cam, yous tin can record your own GIFs and add filters or special FX to them.

Gratuitous on IOS and Android

four.eight/5.0 Rating

3. ImgPlay

ImgPlay lets you turn your own videos, alive photos, photos, and outburst photos into GIFs or videos. You can also add captions and filters to your GIF, edit its frame sector and order, and control its frame speed and direction.

Gratuitous on IOS and Android

4.7/5.0 Rating

4. GIF Maker

With GIF Maker, y'all can catechumen your photos or videos into GIFs, Boomerangs, and memes.

Gratis on IOS and Android

4.6/5.0 Rating

v. Momento

Momento lets yous utilize your live photos and videos to create GIFs and terminate motility videos. You can as well add augmented reality, filters, music, stickers, furnishings, text, and zoom to them.

Free on IOS and Android

4.6/5.0 Rating

6. Songclip

Apple featured Songclip on their "New Apps We Love List" terminal year. And it was included for good reason. The app has a licensed music library full of modern and classic hits that you tin add together to their collection of GIFs or your own created GIF. But if you don't feel like making your own GIF-music combination, y'all can just select and ship one of their trending Songclips to your friends.

Complimentary on IOS

4.8/5.0 Rating

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Originally published Jul 25, 2019 2:00:00 PM, updated October xxx 2019