Change a GIF to PNG

To change GIF to PNG, drop the GIF on this page and press Convert to PNG. There is nothing to set. This free GIF to PNG converter works in your browser: it copies every pixel of the picture into a PNG, which is why the route is graded Exact, and the GIF is never uploaded.

Every see-through part of the GIF stays see-through in the PNG. The colours stay the same too: a GIF holds at most 256 colours, and the PNG shows exactly those, with no more and no fewer. What changes is the room to grow. A PNG stores full colour, so whatever you add while editing it afterwards is no longer squeezed into 256 colours.

To batch convert GIF to PNG, select up to 100 GIFs or drop them on the page together. Each PNG keeps its name, so logo.gif is saved as logo.png. Save them one at a time, or press Download all (ZIP) to get every PNG in one file.

Got other pictures to turn into PNG? The PNG converter opens HEIC, WebP, BMP and more. A TIFF scan of several pages is better off where you can convert TIFF to PNG, since that page saves every page as a PNG of its own.

An animated GIF becomes a still PNG of its first frame, as the line under the heading says. The other frames are left out, so the PNG can be much smaller than the animation: in our test a 1.4 MB clip of 20 frames gave a PNG of 91 to 121 KB, depending on the browser.

For every frame, or one frame from later in the animation, open the GIF in GIF to frames. It saves every frame, every few frames or the frames you pick, as PNG, JPG or WebP. Several frames come together in one ZIP, numbered in order; a single frame comes as one picture.

Keep the GIF when the picture has to move, because a PNG from this page is a still. Keep it too when file size matters most: each still GIF in our tests grew as a PNG, since the browser saves the PNG in full colour rather than in a 256-colour palette.

Choose PNG when you will edit the picture, when an app or upload form asks for PNG, or for a still with clean, hard edges such as a logo, an icon or a chart. For a photo-like GIF that only needs to be small, convert GIF to JPG instead: our 655 KB photo GIF became a 137 KB JPG, but a JPG loses a little detail and fills see-through areas with white. JPEG vs PNG explains which format suits which picture.

Need to go back the other way for a site or a chat app that only takes GIF? Convert PNG to GIF, keeping in mind that the GIF is cut down to 256 colours again.