A clapping cat GIF is a short, silently looping animation of a cat sitting up and bringing its front paws together. It works the way an applause GIF works: someone announces something, you reply with the cat, and the joke lands without a caption.
Every GIF on this page is cut from a real CatClap render rather than sourced from stock footage. That is deliberate - we publish only clips we produced ourselves, so there is no third-party footage inside anything you download and no rights question when you repost it.
GIFs loop silently by design - and so does the video: every render is a silent MP4, so add the sound you want when you post. You can make one from one photo of a person and one of your own cat in about three minutes.