Convert GIF images to PNG online for free. Upload one file or many, choose the quality and maximum size, then download the PNG results one by one or all together in a ZIP. No sign-up needed.
PNG opens in every image editor and keeps sharp edges and transparency. Converting a GIF to PNG gives you a clean still image to edit, put in a document or use as a thumbnail.
Keep the GIF if it is animated and you want the animation: PNG stores a single picture.
GIF dates from 1987 and is best known for short looping animations. Each frame is limited to 256 colours and transparency is on or off only, so photographs often look banded. It is still handy for simple graphics and animations that need to work everywhere.
More GIF conversionsPNG stores images with lossless compression and supports full transparency, which makes it the usual choice for logos, screenshots and graphics with sharp edges. The trade-off is size: a photograph saved as PNG is normally far larger than the same photo saved as JPG or WebP.
More PNG conversions| Feature | GIF | PNG |
|---|---|---|
| Full name | Graphics Interchange Format | Portable Network Graphics |
| Compression | Lossless, 256 colours | Lossless |
| Transparency | Yes | Yes |
| Animation | Yes | No |
| Introduced | 1987 | 1996 |
| Developed by | CompuServe | PNG Development Group (W3C) |
| Best for | Short animations and simple graphics | Logos, screenshots and graphics with transparency |
No. GIF has at most 256 colours and PNG can store them all exactly, so at Quality 100 the PNG looks identical to the GIF frame.
Not here: the first frame is converted. Most GIF animations start on a representative frame, which works well as a thumbnail.
Click Select File or drop your GIF file onto the upload box. Pick the quality and maximum size, and the converted PNG appears in the list below with a download button. You can add many files at once and download them together as a ZIP.
Yes. There is no sign-up and no watermark. To keep the service available for everyone there is a 95MB limit per file and a cap on how many files one connection can process in a short period.
Your upload is used only to make the converted file. Images are processed in memory; other files are written to a private temporary folder that is deleted as soon as the conversion finishes. Nothing is kept after the result has been sent back.
For images, a little, by design: the image is re-encoded at the Quality you choose (default 75%). Audio and video are re-encoded with high-quality settings; documents keep their text and layout as far as the target format allows. Converting never restores detail that is already missing from the original.