Convert GIF to PNG
Private by design: the conversion runs on your device. Nothing is uploaded.
- Choose the target format
- Drop your file (or click to browse)
- Download the converted file
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Output format: png
A GIF is stuck at 256 colours and stuck with hard edged transparency, so the moment a sticker, a diagram or an old logo has to be edited, PNG is the format that lets it behave. This page writes the opening frame out as a lossless PNG with a proper alpha channel. All of the decoding and encoding is local, and it keeps working with the network switched off.
Frequently asked questions
- What happens to an animated GIF here?
- The first frame is saved and the rest are discarded, since a PNG holds one image. Convert to MP4 instead when the animation itself has to survive.
- Will the PNG have more colours than the GIF did?
- The file can hold millions, but the GIF only ever contained 256 and those are what get written. What you gain is headroom for editing rather than detail that was never there.
- Are the transparent edges any smoother afterwards?
- They stay exactly as they were. GIF transparency is on or off per pixel, so a fringe of hard edged pixels in the source is carried into the PNG for you to clean up in an editor.