Convert GIF to PNG
Convert GIF images to PNG free, in your browser. No upload, no account, no watermark.
Runs in your browser. Nothing is uploaded.Change the format. Drop an image, a PDF or a Word document.
- JPG · PNG · WebP · Text · Word
- Word
- PDF · Text
Your files are processed by your own browser and never sent to a server. Open your browser's network tab and convert one, there is no upload to see.
How to convert GIF to PNG
- Drop your GIF files onto the box above, or paste them with Ctrl+V.
- Pick a quality. Around 90% is indistinguishable from the original for most images.
- Your browser does the work on your own machine.
- Save each file from its tile, or take them all at once.
What changes, and what does not
Animation is lost
A GIF can hold many frames and a PNG holds one, so you get the first frame as a still image. A browser canvas cannot write animation back out, and a converter that claims to is doing it on a server with your file.
Colour
GIF: 256 per frame, which is why photographs in a gif look banded. PNG: up to 16.7 million, plus 256 levels of transparency.
GIF and PNG side by side
| GIF | PNG | |
|---|---|---|
| Where it came from | 1987, from CompuServe | 1996, designed as a free replacement for GIF |
| Throws detail away | No, every pixel is kept | No, every pixel is kept |
| Transparency | Yes | Yes |
| Animation | Yes | No |
| Where it opens | Universal, and has been for longer than most of the web | Everywhere, without exception, since the late nineties |
| Best at | Short looping animations, and almost nothing else any more | Screenshots, logos, diagrams and anything with text or hard edges in it |
How much smaller will the file be?
Both formats keep every pixel, so the size depends entirely on the picture. Flat colour and hard edges compress well in either. A photograph is large in both, and neither is the right format for one.
Can I convert it back afterwards?
Yes. Neither format throws anything away, so the round trip returns the same picture, pixel for pixel.
About GIF
Ancient, limited to 256 colours, still everywhere.
Worth knowing: Only the first frame is converted, the result is a still image, not an animation.
About PNG
Lossless and keeps transparency, at the cost of much larger photographs.
Will the quality change?
PNG is lossless, so nothing is thrown away in the encoding. If the GIF was itself lossy, its existing artefacts are preserved faithfully. Converting cannot recover detail that was already discarded, and the file will usually get considerably larger.
Other conversions
GIF also converts to JPG, WebP, AVIF, PDF and Word.
PNG also comes from HEIC, JPG, WebP, AVIF and BMP.