GIF to PNG converter

Drop your GIF files into the converter above and each one comes back as a PNG, ready to download on its own or with the others in a ZIP. A still GIF becomes a PNG with exactly the same pixels. An animated GIF gives you its first frame as the PNG, and a second button saves every frame as a separate PNG file. Everything happens in your browser, so the files are never uploaded, and there is no signup or watermark.

What changes when a GIF becomes a PNG

Very little in the picture itself. Both formats store images without loss, so the PNG shows the same pixels as the GIF did:

• Colors stay the same. A GIF's color table holds at most 256 colors, and the PNG keeps those colors exactly. Converting can't add the colors the GIF left out, so any banding or dithering in the GIF is still there.
• Transparency is kept. A GIF pixel is either fully see-through or fully solid, and the PNG keeps that transparency as it is. If you choose JPG instead, transparent areas are filled with white or black, your choice.
• The file is a still image. A PNG from this converter holds one picture, which suits apps and upload forms that refuse GIFs or animated GIFs. YouTube's profile picture rules, for example, accept GIF but not animated GIFs.

The file size can go either way. PNG often compresses flat graphics well, and it can also be larger than the GIF; each row shows the old and new size.

Animated GIFs: the first frame or every frame

When you convert an animated GIF, the PNG is its first frame. The row then tells you how many frames the GIF has and offers All frames (PNG, ZIP):

• Every frame is saved as its own PNG, named in order: name-frame-001.png, name-frame-002.png and so on.
• Each PNG shows the whole picture at that moment of the animation. Many GIFs store only the part of a frame that changes; the converter builds each frame the way a browser shows it, so you don't get fragments.
• Frames are saved at the GIF's original size and keep transparent pixels. The crop, resize and format settings apply to the first-frame conversion, not to the frames.

Frames are handy for editing a single moment, picking the best still for a thumbnail, building a sprite sheet or reusing one pose as a sticker. The converter handles up to 20 megapixels across all frames, for example 100 frames of 400 × 500 pixels.

Convert to PNG, JPG or WebP

PNG is the natural choice for a GIF: both formats are lossless and both keep transparency. Choose JPG when the destination only accepts JPGs, such as some upload forms; it makes a smaller file but has no transparency. WebP keeps transparency and is often smaller than PNG, as WebP to PNG explains, but some programs still can't open it.

The converter can also crop every image to one shape, such as square, and resize them to a width, a height or a percentage before they are saved.

Remove the background, in a still or a moving GIF

Converting doesn't make anything transparent that wasn't already. For a still picture, click Remove background on a converted row to open it in the AI background remover, which finds the subject and keeps soft edges in the PNG.

For an animation, the GIF background remover clears a plain background color from every frame and saves a new animated GIF with the same timing and loop. What a transparent background is compares how GIF, PNG and other formats store transparency.