Convert GIF to PNG
Convert GIF to PNG free, right here in your browser. Keeps a see-through background as it is and hands you a still picture that editors and upload forms accept without complaint. No signup, nothing to install, batches welcome.
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Why convert GIF to PNG here
Converting GIF to PNG here is free, needs no account, and has no size limit set by us.
Your files stay with you
Converting your GIF here doesn't send it to a server. It happens on your own computer.
No account, no watermark
No email, no sign-up wall, and nothing stamped across the image you get back.
Whole batches at once
Drop a folder's worth of GIF files. They queue up together and come back as one zip.
We don't set a size limit
Convert a file of any size, as many times as you like. There is no plan tier and no daily cap.
Free, and it stays free
Every conversion here is free to use, with no trial, no credits and nothing held back behind a payment.
It just works
Drop your GIF in and take the PNG away. Nothing to install, nothing to set up first.
How to convert GIF to PNG
To convert GIF to PNG, drop your files into the converter above, choose PNG, and download the results. There is nothing to configure.
Drop your GIF files into the box below.
Choose PNG. There is nothing else to set on this one.
Download the PNGs, or take the batch as one .zip.
If your GIF moves, here is what you get
One still picture, taken from the first frame. A PNG holds a single image, so the loop finishes here.
That is exactly what you want when the GIF was only ever a way of shipping a picture — a logo, a chart, a screenshot someone sent you — and you now need it as an ordinary image. The frame comes across whole, with any see-through areas intact.
If the movement is the point, keep the original GIF as well. Nothing here alters the file you dropped in, so you can hold on to the loop and take the still at the same time.
What changes, and what honestly doesn't
The picture arrives looking the same. What changes is everything you can do to it afterwards.
Editing stops costing you
Crop it, retouch it, cut a new background out, save it again — PNG keeps every one of those changes in full, and stores a soft edge properly if you make one. A picture you are going to work on is far better off here than in a GIF.
The picture, exactly as it is
Banding across a gradient, or a hard stair-stepped edge around a cut-out, is part of the image by the time it reaches you. PNG preserves it faithfully rather than inventing something smoother. Converting protects the picture; it does not repaint it.
Once it is a PNG and headed for a web page, converting on to WebP takes most of the weight off again without touching the transparency.
Questions people ask
You get a still picture of the first frame. PNG holds one image rather than a sequence, so the movement stops here — and the frame you get is the one the GIF opens on. If the animation itself is what you need to keep, this is not the conversion to run; keep the GIF alongside the PNG.
Yes. If your GIF has see-through areas, they stay see-through, and nothing gets filled in behind them. Converting the same file to JPG would flatten them to a solid colour instead, because JPG has nowhere to store the idea of nothing being there.
It will look the same. PNG keeps exactly what it is handed, which means the picture stops degrading from here on — but banding or a hard edge that is already in the GIF is part of the picture now, and preserving it faithfully is what PNG does. The gain is in what you can do next, not in what arrives.
Because PNG is the better file to keep and to work on. It is accepted by upload forms and editors that turn a GIF away, it survives repeated saving without losing anything, and if you cut a new background out later it can store that edge properly. A GIF is built for short loops; a still picture belongs in PNG.
Because GIF was designed for flat graphics and simple animation rather than photographs, so smooth gradients and skin tones arrive in visible bands. Converting to PNG holds that steady rather than letting it get worse, and any retouching you do afterwards is stored in full.
Yes. Drop in as many as you like; they queue together and come back as a single .zip. Each animated one contributes its first frame, so a folder of loops comes back as a folder of stills.