Currently, iNaturalist supports static images (like jpeg) and animated images in gif format. GIF format is not suitable for animated photos, files become large and with low quality. On other side, webp will allow to upload short animated images in high quality and tiny size Adding webp file type wi…

welcome. you may want to look over at this other thread about uploading videos . there’s some discussion over there about other file formats that could replace animated GIF, such as APNG. my sense is that video in any form (including animated photos) is just not a high priority, and i think i’m begi…

Yes, I agree with you about youtube videos, my comment is about the optimization of the existing gif upload feature, which will allow to improve quality keeping the same size. As of my opinion gif/apng are great formats for animating graphics, but for photo animation webp is the most suitable from p…

animated webp is not necessarily better than video in terms of file size for the same image size / quality, and it doesn’t offer some of the other features of video. animated webp may be better than animated GIF, but that path doesn’t seem to lead to a better place than true video. so why put in add…

from programming perspective it will be much easier as it will work out of the box after adding webp to the list of allowed file types. Video support will require additional coding

I’m going to close this, we don’t plan on adding more workarounds for video.

webp image support

Feature Requests

Topic		Replies	Views
Some videos allowed? General	12	622	October 26, 2022
Webp image format support Feature Requests declined	5	623	October 29, 2024
Upload videos Feature Requests web , android-app , under-review , mobile-app	35	8287	August 2, 2025
How to convert a video so it can be posted on iNat? General	20	2059	April 26, 2024
Platform to add video type observations General	10	582	March 5, 2025

webp image support

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