Convert PNG images to GIF online for free. Upload one file or many, choose the quality and maximum size, then download the GIF results one by one or all together in a ZIP. No sign-up needed.
GIF is accepted by almost every forum, email client and messenger, including old ones. Converting a PNG logo, icon or simple drawing to GIF is useful when an upload form or template only allows GIF.
Keep the PNG for anything that needs smooth colours, soft shadows or semi-transparent edges, and as your editable master copy.
PNG 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 conversionsGIF 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 conversions| Feature | PNG | GIF |
|---|---|---|
| Full name | Portable Network Graphics | Graphics Interchange Format |
| Compression | Lossless | Lossless, 256 colours |
| Transparency | Yes | Yes |
| Animation | No | Yes |
| Introduced | 1996 | 1987 |
| Developed by | PNG Development Group (W3C) | CompuServe |
| Best for | Logos, screenshots and graphics with transparency | Short animations and simple graphics |
Not with this tool: each PNG becomes its own still GIF. To make an animation, start from a video and use MP4 to GIF.
For simple graphics with few colours, often yes. For detailed images PNG is usually smaller and looks better.
Click Select File or drop your PNG file onto the upload box. Pick the quality and maximum size, and the converted GIF 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.