Windows – How to combine multiple GIFs into one GIF file

For any number of input files named in-<something>.jpg:

convert -append in-*.jpg out.jpg

In order to have specific files appended, or skip numbers instead of getting the full "glob", you can mention the input files explicitly and put the append command afterwards

convert in-1.jpg in-5.jpg in-N.jpg +append out-in1-plus-in5-and-inN.jpg

You can use -append (instead of +append) for vertical paste-up.

Or:

montage -mode concatenate -tile 1x in-*.jpg out.jpg

will also create a file out.jpg that contains a vertical concatenation of the source images.

convert

For simple concatenation in a single row or column, the append option of the convert tool is sufficient. Note that -append concatenates all images vertically, creating one column with n rows, and +append concatenates horizontally, creating one row with n columns.

(See ImageMagick: Command-line Options.)

montage

To get finer control over the layout, we would need the montage tool. montage -mode concatenate will glue the input images together like the append option and -tile 1x controls the layout to be applied.

tile follows the format columns×rows, but either side may be missing and montage will figure out how to meet the constraints.

We're using 1x (exactly one column with any number of rows) here to get the same effect as -append. Without -tile 1x, it would join the images like +append, defaulting to -tile x1 (any number of columns on one row).

(See ImageMagick Examples: Montage, Arrays of Images.)

You can use a free tool called ImageMagick. It can tell you how many images are in the GIF.

identify -format %n~%f\n *.gif

1~120406-00.gif
1~120406-01.gif
1~autonumbering.gif

%n number of images in current image sequence

%f filename (including suffix)

\n newline

The 1 is front indicates how many frames are in the image.

Anything more than 1 we can assume is an animated GIF.