# Animated Signature > Animated Signature builds animated email signatures that arrive whole in > every inbox. A signature is ordinary nested-table HTML with an animated > image inside it, so it needs nothing installed at the recipient's end. ## What it is - A browser builder for animated email signatures, at https://animatedsignature.com - Ten designs, each drawn for one motion, all 320px wide so they fit the narrowest phone - Your photo is animated in your own browser and stored as a GIF, with a still of the finished frame beside it - An optional banner or call to action under the card, and scheduled campaigns that are filled at the moment the email is opened - A dashboard and analytics for clicks on your links, plus banner loads for campaigns ## How it behaves in email clients - Outlook on Windows freezes an animated image on its first frame, so every animation is built with the finished picture as frame 0. Outlook shows a complete signature, never a blank one. - Gmail, Apple Mail and Outlook on desktop and mobile are supported, as is anything that accepts pasted formatted text, including most CRMs. - There are no scripts, no web fonts and no CSS the client has to understand: nested tables and inline styles only. ## What is tracked, and what is not - Opens are never tracked. There is no pixel in a signature, deliberately: an open pixel is one of the strongest spam signals there is. - Clicks on the signature's links are counted while link tracking is on, and the owner can switch it off. - Where a click came from is stored as a count per country and device type per hour. No IP address, no user agent, no identifier. - Campaign banner loads are counted per campaign per day, with nothing about the reader attached. ## Pages - Home: https://animatedsignature.com/ - Privacy policy: https://animatedsignature.com/privacy/ - Terms of service: https://animatedsignature.com/terms/ - Contact: hello@animatedsignature.com ## Questions and answers ### What is an animated email signature? It is an ordinary email signature whose photo, logo or call to action moves. The motion is a small animated image sitting inside the same table markup every signature uses, so it plays in the recipient's inbox with nothing to install at their end. ### Do animated email signatures work in Outlook? Yes. Outlook on Windows freezes a moving image on its first frame, so every animation is built with the finished picture as frame 0. Outlook shows a complete signature rather than a blank one, and every client that does play animation plays it. ### Which email clients and devices are supported? Gmail, Outlook and Apple Mail on the desktop and on the phone, and anything else you can paste formatted text into, including most CRMs. A signature is nested tables with inline styles, the markup email clients have agreed on for twenty years, so it survives being forwarded and pasted around. ### Do you track when someone opens my email? No. Opens are never tracked and no pixel is ever added to your signature. Clicks on your signature's links are counted while link tracking is on, because a recipient chose to follow them, and you can switch that off on your dashboard at any time. ### Will an animated signature get my email marked as spam? There are no scripts, no web fonts and no tracking pixel in what ships, and an open pixel is one of the strongest spam signals there is. Text you enter is escaped and links are held to a scheme allowlist before anything is sent. ### How large is an animated email signature? About a quarter of a megabyte of images for a design with an animated photo, a logo and five social icons, plus a few kilobytes of markup. There is nothing else to load: no frameworks, no fonts, no scripts. ### Can I use my own photo and logo? Yes. Your photo is animated in your own browser, in the one motion the design was drawn for, and a still of the finished frame goes with it for clients that block images. Logos are placed the same way. ### How do I install my signature? Design it, copy it, and paste it into your mail client's signature settings. There are step-by-step guides for Gmail, Outlook and Apple Mail on the desktop and on the phone, and the mobile guides say plainly where an app can only hold plain text. ### Can I change my signature after installing it? Yes, and there is no save button: the builder keeps your work as you type. A signature already pasted into your mail client keeps what it had until you copy the new one across, which takes a moment. ### What happens to my data if I delete my account? Deleting your account removes your uploaded images from storage, then every row that belongs to you from the database, then the login itself, in that order. Nothing of yours is kept behind.