animation in Gmail
Not supported animation is not supported in Gmail.
Works in 5 of 21 · partial in 1 · not supported in 15
Which clients
- Works
- Apple Mail, Apple Mail iOS, Samsung Mail, HEY Mail, Fastmail
- Partial
- Superhuman
- Not supported
- Gmail, Gmail Android, Gmail iOS, Outlook 365, Outlook (New), Outlook Classic, Outlook iOS, Outlook Android, Outlook for Mac, Yahoo Mail, Yahoo Mail Android, Yahoo Mail iOS, Thunderbird, Proton Mail, AOL Mail
Your reader in Gmail sees the email without animation, even if it looks right where you tested it.
The fix for Gmail
Replace CSS animation with an animated GIF
<!-- Use an animated GIF for the effect -->
<img src="https://example.com/badge-animated.gif"
width="60" height="24" alt="New!"
style="display: inline-block; border: 0;" />Show the original
<style>
@keyframes pulse { 0%, 100% { opacity: 1; } 50% { opacity: 0.5; } }
.badge { animation: pulse 2s infinite; }
</style>
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What Gmail does with animation
@emailens/engine 0.18.22 on the original code
Gmail does not support "animation".
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advice
Questions
- How many email clients support animation?
- It works in 5 of 21, partial in 1, not supported in 15.
- What do I use instead of animation in Gmail?
- Replace CSS animation with an animated GIF.
- Does animation work in Gmail iOS?
- animation is not supported in Gmail iOS. Closest to Gmail: Gmail iOS, which agrees on 251 of the 300 features both are tested on.
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Real captures 14 Oct 2026 on 10 installs · caniemail (MIT) via @emailens/engine 0.18.22 · tested upstream 7 Apr 2026 · data last changed 10 Nov 2026 · Outlook (New) cells are the engine's mapping · the Gmail capture is not counted (it skips Gmail's sanitiser)