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Convert a GIF image to PNG instantly, right in your browser.
Upload a GIF file to convert it to PNG.
This tool converts a GIF image to PNG entirely in your browser -- the file is decoded, redrawn onto a canvas, and re-encoded as PNG without ever being uploaded to a server. GIF is a legacy format limited to a 256-color indexed palette, which is why photographs saved as GIF often show visible color banding. It supports single-bit (fully on/off) transparency and simple frame animation. This tool reads a GIF's first frame only -- for a static image export from an animated GIF, that's usually the cover frame; true animation isn't something a canvas-based export like this can carry through to a static PNG/JPG/WebP/ICO.
Click the upload area and choose a GIF file. The converted preview appears immediately; click Download to save it as a real .png file.
Need to go the other way? Use the PNG to GIF tab above, or open the PNG to GIF converter directly.
Converting to PNG is the right move when you need a real transparent background, or lossless quality for text, logos, and sharp-edged graphics. PNG uses lossless compression -- no image data is discarded, so text, sharp edges, and flat colors (logos, screenshots, diagrams) stay perfectly crisp. It also supports a full alpha (transparency) channel. The tradeoff is file size: a lossless encode of a photograph is typically much larger than the equivalent JPEG.
A GIF uses an indexed palette of at most 256 colors, and this tool reads only the first frame of the file. Whatever that first frame looks like when decoded is what gets converted.
PNG output is lossless and keeps transparency, so nothing is thrown away at the save step. The trade-off is file size, which for photographic content can end up larger than the source.
The image is drawn onto a canvas at its natural pixel size and nothing is scaled, so a GIF that measures a given width and height in pixels produces a PNG with the same width and height. Everything runs locally in your browser tab, which is why large files take longer on slower devices.
Take a 480 by 270 pixel GIF meme or animated banner. Convert it and the PNG shows only the first frame, at 480 by 270 pixels. This is handy when you need a clean still for a thumbnail or a document, and less useful when the motion is the point.
After the preview appears, a small badge under it shows the pixel dimensions and the source size next to the output size in bytes. Use it as a quick sanity check: if the dimensions are not what you expected, the source file is the cause, not the conversion. This suits logos, screenshots, and graphics that need a transparent background or crisp edges.
Open the downloaded PNG in the program where you will actually use it. Previews in a browser tab can differ slightly from how a print shop, editor, or upload form treats the same file, so a ten second test upload is cheaper than discovering a problem after publishing.
This converter changes the container and encoding, not the picture itself. It does not sharpen, resize, recolor, or remove metadata deliberately, and it cannot recover detail that the source format already lost. Treat the original GIF as your master copy and keep it safe, since converting back and forth between lossy formats only ever makes quality worse.
No -- the whole conversion happens locally in your browser using the Canvas API. Your file never leaves your device.
There's no artificial limit in the tool itself, but very large images take longer to process since everything runs in your browser rather than on a server.
No -- only the GIF's first frame is used. Canvas-based conversion produces a single static image, not an animation.
Yes. The image is drawn at its natural pixel size with no scaling, so the width and height carry over unchanged. Use an image editor first if you need a different size.
There is no quality slider in this tool. The file is encoded by your browser with its default settings, and the size badge shows the resulting file size so you can judge it for yourself.
Yes where the source has it. The transparent pixels are drawn onto an empty canvas and the PNG format can store them, so the background stays transparent.
Different formats compress differently. Moving a lossy file to a lossless one, or a well-compressed file to a lightly compressed one, can increase the size. Compare the two byte counts in the badge and pick the format that fits your goal.
Converting GIF to PNG changes more than the file extension -- GIF is best suited to simple graphics and short looping animations, while PNG is built for logos, screenshots, diagrams and anything that needs sharp edges or transparency.
| GIF | PNG | |
|---|---|---|
| File extension | .gif | .png |
| Compression | lossless, but limited to a 256-colour palette | lossless |
| Transparency | On/off transparency only | Full transparency (alpha channel) |
| Animation | Supported | Single image |
| Colours | 256 per frame | 16.7 million plus an 8-bit transparency channel |
| Best for | simple graphics and short looping animations | logos, screenshots, diagrams and anything that needs sharp edges or transparency |
| Support | every browser, chat app and editor | every browser, phone and editor |
The conversion happens in your browser; the file is never uploaded.