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Your images never leave this tab.
Open your browser's developer tools, switch to the Network tab, and convert a file. You will see the encoder and its WebAssembly module load from this domain the first time, and then nothing — no upload, no image data, no request carrying your file anywhere. Turn off your Wi-Fi after the page loads and it still works.
What this conversion does and does not fix
GIF is from 1987 and it shows. Its defining limitation is the palette: a GIF frame can contain at most 256 distinct colours, so every photograph ever saved as a GIF was crushed down to fit, usually with dithering to disguise the damage.
PNG has no such ceiling. It stores 24-bit colour with an 8-bit alpha channel, losslessly.
What it cannot do is undo the crush. Converting a GIF to PNG gives you a perfect, lossless copy of an image that was already reduced to 256 colours. The dithering stays. The banding stays. You are changing the container, not repairing the contents — and that is worth being clear about, because “convert to a better format” sounds like it should mean “get a better image”, and it does not.
How to convert GIF to PNG
- Drop your
.giffiles onto the box above, click it to browse, paste from the clipboard, or drop a folder. - PNG is already selected as the output format on this page.
- Press Convert, then download the files individually or as a single ZIP.
No quality setting appears on this page because PNG has no lossy mode. The output is an exact record of the decoded frame.
Animated GIFs give you the first frame
PNG cannot store animation, so there is no way to carry it across. This converter decodes the first frame, writes it as a PNG, and shows a warning telling you the animation was dropped — rather than flattening the file quietly and letting you discover it later.
If a still frame is what you wanted, that is the whole job. If it is not, no GIF-to-PNG converter anywhere can help, because the destination format has nowhere to put the other frames.
Transparency, and its hard edges
GIF transparency is a single bit per pixel: on or off. There is no partial opacity, which is why transparent GIFs have that characteristic jagged outline against a background they were not designed for.
PNG stores a full 8-bit alpha channel, so the transparency transfers perfectly — but it transfers exactly as it was. The edges do not become smooth, because the information for smooth edges was never in the GIF.
Nothing is uploaded
The GIF is decoded by your own browser and the PNG written by a WebAssembly encoder in the same tab. There is no upload endpoint on this site. Load the page once and every conversion after that works offline.
Frequently asked questions
- How do I convert GIF to PNG for free?
- Drop your .gif files onto the box at the top of this page — PNG is already selected — press Convert, and download the results. No account, no watermark and no daily limit, because the conversion runs on your own machine rather than a server.
- What happens to an animated GIF?
- Only the first frame is converted, and the converter tells you so rather than silently flattening the file. PNG has no animation, so there is no honest way to keep it. If you need the animation preserved in a modern format, that is a different problem than this page solves.
- Is transparency preserved?
- Yes. GIF transparency is one-bit — a pixel is either fully transparent or fully opaque, with nothing in between — and PNG stores that faithfully. What PNG cannot do is invent the smooth edges GIF never had, so the hard, slightly jagged outline of a transparent GIF stays hard and slightly jagged.
- Does converting to PNG improve the image?
- No, and this is the most common misunderstanding about this conversion. GIF is limited to 256 colours per frame, and whatever the original image was, that reduction already happened. PNG has no palette limit, but converting cannot restore colours that were discarded when the GIF was made. You get a lossless copy of a palettised image, not a better image.
- Will the PNG be bigger or smaller?
- It varies, and both directions are common. Both formats are lossless and both use similar compression underneath, so a simple graphic with few colours often comes out slightly smaller as a PNG, while a dithered photographic GIF can come out larger. Neither outcome means anything went wrong.
- Why convert GIF to PNG at all?
- Usually because something expects PNG specifically, or because you want to edit the image without the palette getting in the way. PNG is also the better archival container for a still graphic — it has no frame concept to confuse tools, and no 256-colour ceiling if you later edit and re-save.
- Can I convert a folder of GIFs at once?
- Yes, with no limit on how many. The queue runs across several CPU cores and everything downloads as a single ZIP.
Other conversions
Each converter opens with the right output format already selected, so the file you drop comes back in the format you came for.
Convert WebP to another format
Convert images to WebP
- Convert PNG to WebP Keep the transparency, drop most of the file size. Lossless mode is one click away if you need pixel-exact output.
- Convert JPG to WebP Typically 25-50% smaller than the same photo as a JPEG, at a quality most people cannot tell apart.
- Convert JPEG to WebP The same conversion as JPG — the two extensions are one format. Smaller files, same picture.
- Convert HEIC to WebP iPhone photos, converted in the browser. No app, no upload, and it works on iOS Safari where most converters do not.
- Convert AVIF to WebP Usually a compatibility move rather than a size one. WebP opens in more places than AVIF still does.
- Convert GIF to WebP Static GIFs convert cleanly and shrink hard. Animated GIFs convert to their first frame — and we will tell you when that happens.
- Convert TIFF to WebP Scans and print files, converted to something a browser can actually display.
- Convert BMP to WebP BMP stores pixels essentially uncompressed. Expect the file to get very substantially smaller.
- Convert SVG to WebP Turning vector into pixels. You choose the size, because a vector does not really have one.
Convert to PNG or JPG
- Convert HEIC to JPG Turn the photos your iPhone actually shot into the format everything else can open. The pictures never leave your device.
- Convert HEIC to PNG Convert iPhone photos into PNG when the software you are feeding demands it. Lossless, private, and free.
- Convert SVG to PNG Rasterize vector artwork into PNG at the exact size you need, with the transparent background intact.
- Convert SVG to JPG Rasterize vector artwork into JPG for the places that will not take anything else. Free, unlimited, nothing uploaded.
- Convert TIFF to JPG Turn enormous archival scans into files you can actually email. Free, unlimited, and nothing leaves your machine.
- Convert TIFF to PNG Convert archival scans into PNG without losing a pixel — the right choice when the page is text, plans or line art.
- Convert AVIF to JPG You downloaded an AVIF and nothing on your computer will open it. This turns it into a JPG that everything opens.
- Convert AVIF to PNG Convert AVIF into PNG for the software that has never heard of AVIF. Transparency intact, nothing uploaded.
- Convert GIF to JPG Convert GIF into JPG for the systems that insist on it. Free, unlimited, and nothing leaves your machine.
- Convert BMP to PNG Shrink uncompressed Windows bitmaps dramatically without losing a single pixel. Free, unlimited, nothing uploaded.
- Convert BMP to JPG Turn enormous uncompressed bitmaps into files you can actually send. Free, unlimited, and nothing leaves your machine.
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