Giphy
Who runs Giphy, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest GIF search engine alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- tenor.com
Measured from Giphy’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Giphy01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Giphy
Giphy giphy.com
GIPHY is the platform that animates your world. Find the GIFs, Clips, and Stickers that make your conversations more positive, more expressive, and more you.
Wikidata: website hosting animated GIFs
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Giphy tracks
What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.
trackers that follow visitors
12 of the 14 alternatives below have fewer, 2 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 4 tools
Advertising and retargeting
Lets ad networks recognise visitors on other sites and show them ads.
Visitor analytics
Counts and follows visits, usually with cookies.
Marketing and email tracking
Links visits to email campaigns and customer profiles.
Tag manager
Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Giphy
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Giphy, thumbs down if it isn’t.
20 of the 60 sites closest to Giphy match.
- 01
Tenor GIF Keyboard - Bring Personality To Your Conversations
Say more with Tenor. Find the perfect Animated GIFs and videos to convey exactly what you mean in every conversation.
Very close - 02
Imgur: The magic of the Internet
Find, rate and share the best memes and images. Discover the magic of the Internet at Imgur.
Very close - 03
Instagram
Create an account or log in to Instagram - Share what you're into with the people who get you.
Very close - 04
YouTube
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
Very close - 05
Tumblr
Tumblr is the place you go to be yourself on the internet. No performance, no perfection. Just you, and the people who get it.
Very close - 06
MyAnimeList.net - Anime and Manga Database and Community
Welcome to MyAnimeList, the world's most active online anime and manga community and database. Join the online community, create your anime and manga list, read reviews, explore the forums, follow news, and so much more!
Very close - 07
Dailymotion
video streaming site
Very close - 08
AniList: Track, Discover, Share Anime & Manga
Track, discover, and share anime and manga with AniList. Discover top-rated and popular shows through reviews and recommendations. Sign up for free!
Very close - 09
TikTok - Make Your Day
video-focused social media platform
Very close - 10
Zoosk | Dating Site, Free to Start | Ambitious, Educated Singles
Zoosk is a modern dating site that connects ambitious, like-minded singles seeking real relationships. Join today for free to start meeting accomplished partners who match your drive.
Very close - 11
Hornet | Hornet, the Queer Social Network
Meet, chat and connect with 100 million+ queer men worldwide
Very close - 12
Answers - The Most Trusted Place for Answering Life's Questions
Answers is the place to go to get the answers you need and to ask the questions you want
Very close - 13
Vocal
Vocal is a platform for supporting, discovering and rewarding creators.
Very close - 14
Make Everyone Shine
Kwai is a social network for short videos and trends. Discover funny short videos. Contribute to the virtual community with recordings, videos of your life, playing daily challenges or likes the best memes and videos. Download the app to share your life with short videos and choose from dozens of magical effects and filters for them.
Very close - 15
FC2 - Free Website, Analyzer, Blog, Rental Server, SEO Countermeasures, etc. -
FC2 is a portal site which brings you a pleasant web life providing blog/website/analyzer services and others. Our blog service is ranked No.2 domestically and supported by wide range of users including both beginners and heavy users. We offer as many as 30 different services.
Very close - 16
Home - The Big Cheezburger Network - Made from the finest of internets - Cheezburger
You get a Cheezburger, and YOU get a Cheezburger. EVERYONE GETS A CHEEZBURGER. The original internet funny site.
Very close - 17
GameBanana | The Game Modding Community - Since 2001
Mods, Tutorials, Sprays, Works In Progress, Sound Mods and more for video games
Close - 18
Mastodon.social
The original server of Mastodon, operated by Mastodon GmbH for the common good.
Close - 19
SongMeanings | Song Lyrics, Meanings & Discussion
SongMeanings is a community of thousands of music lovers who contribute song lyrics, discuss song meanings and interpretations, and connect over songs and artists they love!
Close - 20
Snapchat - Say It In A Snap
Chat, send Snaps, explore Stories, and try Lenses on desktop, or download the app on mobile! See how to connect & create with friends on Snapchat, wherever you are.
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Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Giphy’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Giphy uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Giphy adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 15 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,215
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 30 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Giphy’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- JavaScript frameworks
- Analytics
- Comscore page source: .scorecardresearch.com
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
- Advertising
- Meta Pixel page source: connect.facebook.net/en_US/fbevents.js
- Marketing automation
- Mailchimp TXT v=spf1 include:sendgrid.net include:_spf.google.com include:_spf.mail…
- CDN
- Fastly header x-served-by: cache-iad-kcgs7200168-IAD, cache-ber1080056-BER
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Email delivery
- SendGrid TXT v=spf1 include:sendgrid.net include:_spf.google.com include:_spf.mail…
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-8.awsdns-01.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=Fii0eNOZHns9TIAc
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=2ZiBk8nroSamkeHuamMoEH9zYMfA1R0XO1ZWlq1…
- Bing Webmaster Tools meta msvalidate.01: F8A7FDC3D369E857ACB67C4AB8EBD9A4
- Google Search Console meta google-site-verification: 8mfne8CLOmysP4fUdGDJioWLEGbHMJY4tBsxsQT2eSY
- OpenAI TXT openai-domain-verification=dv-Sagm5Hc2GH6IccoTx7kqsIPO
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 19/20
- Google Workspace 16/20
- Amazon Route 53 9/20
- Atlassian 7/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on giphy.com 7/20
- nginx · not on giphy.com 6/20
- Amazon SES · not on giphy.com 4/20
- Mailchimp 4/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on giphy.com 4/20
- Google Analytics · not on giphy.com 4/20
- Google Fonts · not on giphy.com 4/20
- Zendesk · not on giphy.com 4/20
- Apple Business 4/20
- Cloudflare · not on giphy.com 4/20
- GlobalSign · not on giphy.com 4/20
- DocuSign · not on giphy.com 4/20