Turn a GIF into a lossless PNG of its first frame, ready for any editor or upload form.
A GIF is a picture squeezed into 256 colours. A PNG keeps the same picture without squeezing anything further.
A GIF is awkward in a document, a slide or a print order: half of them animate, so the wrong moment shows up, and some upload forms reject the type outright. A PNG is a single picture that sits still wherever it lands and opens in every browser, phone and editor.
Each time a GIF is saved from an editor, the whole frame is pushed back into a 256-colour palette, and banding builds up in gradients and on flat backgrounds. Converted to PNG, the frame is stored in full colour, so the next crop, arrow or caption does not knock more colours out of it.
GIF can only say "transparent" or "solid" for each pixel, which leaves a hard fringe around cut-out edges. In a PNG those pixels stay transparent and can pick up soft edges or a real shadow the next time you edit the file, instead of being locked to one bit.
This is a format change, not an animation rescue — be clear about that before you start.
An animated GIF is a stack of frames with a delay between them. The converter reads the first frame and nothing else, so a looping sticker, a progress bar or a short demo becomes one still PNG of the moment it starts at. If the motion is the point, keep the GIF — no still image can hold it.
PNG can store millions of colours, but it cannot invent them: a GIF that was reduced to 200 shades stays a 200-shade picture. What you gain is that the palette is no longer a ceiling for future edits. Do not expect the conversion to smooth out banding that was already baked into the file.
PNG output is lossless, so the Quality field is ignored — there is no detail to trade away. The Background field stays on "keep transparency" and the transparent pixels of the GIF come through as fully transparent pixels of the PNG.
Both formats compress without loss, and PNG tends to be a little tighter than GIF on the same frame, so the PNG often comes out the same size or slightly smaller. A very large GIF can go either way; the result line shows both weights before you download, so there is no surprise.
Three steps, no account and nothing to install.
Drag it onto the box, click to choose, or paste it with Ctrl+V (Cmd+V on a Mac). One file per run, up to 25 MB. An animated file is accepted exactly like a still one; only its first frame is used.
Leave the width field empty to keep the GIF's own pixels. Type a number — 800 for a chat sticker, 1200 for a slide — and the height follows the aspect ratio. Images are never enlarged, so a bigger number than the original simply does nothing.
Check the preview: transparent areas show as a checkerboard, and the frame you see is the frame you get. One click saves the file next to the original, which is worth keeping if the animation matters.
A GIF hides a few decisions that are easier to make up front.
Because only the first frame is converted, a GIF that opens on a blank or a logo will produce a blank or a logo. Open it in an editor or a player that steps through frames, export the frame you actually want, and convert that file instead.
Marking up a GIF in an editor and saving it re-quantises the palette on every save. Do the conversion first and all of that work happens on a PNG, where repeated saving costs nothing. The image converter handles the other formats the same way if the file happens to be a WebP or an AVIF.
A 256-colour PNG is light, but a photograph-like GIF is still better served by a lossy format. The GIF to JPG converter flattens a still frame onto a solid background, and compressing the image afterwards takes another bite out of the weight if the file is going on a page.
Yes. Converting is free, there is no account, no trial, no credit card and no watermark on the PNG you download, and the number of files is not capped. A short rate limit keeps one visitor from occupying the server for everyone else.
Only the first frame is converted. An animation is a sequence of frames with a delay between them, and a PNG holds exactly one image, so the loop, the timing and every frame after the first are not carried over. If the motion is what you need, keep the .gif file — this converter cannot rebuild it.
Yes. Every pixel the GIF marks as transparent comes out transparent in the PNG. What does not appear is detail the GIF never had: it can only store fully transparent or fully opaque pixels, so soft, faded edges have to be added in an editor afterwards, on the PNG, where partial transparency is possible.
Up to 25 MB per file, with the image itself limited to 50 megapixels. Animated GIFs are often large because every frame is stored, so a file can hit the limit even when one frame is small — in that case export the single frame you need from an editor and convert that.
Files are processed on our server and not stored. The GIF is decoded as it arrives and only the finished PNG is sent back to your browser.
