Introduction to AniTuner
AniTuner creates, edits and converts Windows animated cursor files (.ani) files that contain an animated mouse pointer. You can use animated cursors to customize the appearance of Windows (themes) but also to insert animations in your Web pages, e-mails, documents or even applications...

For example, five animated cursors were converted to animated GIF that you can see below:

With AniTuner you have a lot of possibilities:

  • open and display any animated cursor.
  • convert animated GIF and AVI into animated cursors (ANI).
  • import existing image files (BMP, JPG, GIF, PNG, PSD, CUR, ICO) to turn them into cursors or animated cursors.
  • export frames from your animated cursors to several image formats.
  • modify existing animated cursors and change their color depth or size.
  • convert animated cursors into animated GIF, AVI, static bitmaps or even Macromedia Flash SWF movies.
  • edit frames, change their duration, modify them in your favorite image editor and save changes back to the animated cursor.
  • AniTuner handles all cursor sizes (not only 32x32) & color formats (from 1bpp to 32bpp).
  • special support for 32-bit cursors with a 8-bit alpha channel (partial transparency for Windows 2000/XP).
  • turn your old 16 or 256-color animated cursors into 32-bit animated cursors with a semi-transparent shadow for Windows XP.
  • export (and import) animated cursors as a series of PNG files (with alpha channel optionally).
  • browse for animated cursors on your computer and preview them before opening in AniTuner.

AniTuner features an easy-to-use XP-like interface that lets you visually edit and convert all of your animated cursors in a snap. AniTuner is the successor of our old product called AniToAvi Wizard, and is a full freeware program.

ยป Select the following links to continue with AniTuner help:

Getting Started

What is an animated cursor? (important)

Opening an animation file