Convert GIF to PNG
A still GIF as a clean, lossless PNG. From an animation you get the first frame.
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Before PNG existed, GIF was how logos, icons, buttons and diagrams were put on the web, and a great many of those files are still in use. PNG does everything a still GIF does and does it better: no limit of 256 colours, proper soft transparency and, usually, a smaller file. Converting an old GIF graphic to PNG brings it into a format every current tool prefers.
The page opens at a setting where the PNG is lossless, so each pixel of the GIF is copied exactly, transparent areas included. Be clear about one thing first: a PNG holds a single picture. If your GIF is animated, the result is its first frame, and a note in the editor tells you the animation was dropped.
Twenty files can be converted together without an account. Your GIFs travel over an encrypted connection to our own servers, and they and the PNGs are deleted within one hour.
Still graphics: an exact copy that is usually smaller
For a GIF that is one picture, the conversion costs nothing. The colours are the same and the edges are the same. PNG packs the data with a newer method than the one GIF has used since 1987, so a logo or a chart typically comes out ten to thirty percent smaller with no change at all to how it looks.
What you gain is room to work. A PNG can be edited and saved again in any image program without the palette being rebuilt each time, placed in documents and slides without surprises, and resized with smooth edges, which a 256-colour GIF handles badly.
If your GIF is an animation
People come to this page with two different wishes. Some want one clean still out of a moving GIF, a thumbnail or a poster frame, and for them the first frame is often exactly right. Others want the animation itself in a better format. PNG cannot give them that.
For a moving picture, convert to WebP instead, which keeps every frame and is far smaller than the GIF; the same editor offers it in the Format menu. Pulling out a frame other than the first, or every frame as separate pictures, is not something this site does at present.
The hard edge stays hard
GIF transparency is all or nothing. Each pixel is either fully visible or fully clear, so a round logo saved as a GIF has a stair-stepped outline, often with a fringe of the colour it was designed to sit on. The PNG reproduces that edge faithfully. It does not smooth it, because the soft in-between pixels were never stored in the GIF.
If the fringe is a problem, the cure is a better source. Look for the logo as an SVG or a large PNG. Failing that, reducing the picture slightly in Resize blends the steps of the outline a little.
Frequently asked questions
What happens to an animated GIF?
Only the first frame is converted, and the result says that the animation was dropped. For a moving result choose WebP as the output format.
Is the transparent background kept?
Yes. Transparent pixels in the GIF are transparent in the PNG.
Will the PNG look better than the GIF?
It will look the same. The conversion copies the pixels and adds nothing; colours that the GIF's palette removed do not come back.
Why is the PNG sometimes larger than the GIF?
It is rare, and happens with very small files, where fixed overhead outweighs the saving. A few hundred bytes are the usual difference.
Can I get a JPG instead?
Yes, in the Format menu. JPG suits GIFs that are really photographs. For logos and line art, PNG keeps the edges cleaner.
Can I extract every frame of the GIF?
No. This page converts the first frame only.