Convert GIF to PNG

Extract the first frame of any animated GIF as a high-quality PNG image with millions of colours — processed entirely in your browser.

Drop GIF files here or click to select files GIF files · first frame extracted · max 50 MB each · up to 50 files
🔒 Your files never leave your device. All conversion happens in your browser — nothing is uploaded to any server.

What are GIF and PNG files?

GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) was created by CompuServe in 1987 — making it one of the oldest image formats still in widespread use. Its defining feature is animation: GIF can store multiple frames played back in sequence, which is why it became the standard format for short looping animations on the web. However, GIF has a severe technical limitation: it can only store 256 colours per frame. This works fine for simple graphics and illustrations, but causes visible banding, dithering, and colour loss on photographs and complex images.

PNG (Portable Network Graphics) was developed in 1996 specifically to replace GIF for static images. It supports over 16 million colours and full alpha transparency — far beyond what GIF can represent. PNG uses lossless compression, meaning every pixel is stored exactly. For any static image that was originally a GIF, converting to PNG produces a sharper result with more accurate colours and often a smaller file size. PNG cannot store animation, which is why GIF still persists for animated content.

Convert GIF to PNG when you need a static thumbnail or preview image from an animated GIF, when you want to use a GIF image in software that requires PNG, or when you need better colour accuracy than GIF's 256-colour palette allows.

Other conversions

JPG → PNG Lossless quality and transparency support WEBP → PNG Full quality and transparency support HEIC → PNG Lossless quality from iPhone photos PNG → JPG Reduce file size while keeping quality

Frequently Asked Questions

Only the first frame. The browser's Canvas API draws whichever frame is displayed when the image loads — which is always the first frame. Full multi-frame GIF-to-PNG extraction (producing one PNG per frame) requires a more complex decoder that runs outside the browser. For single-frame extraction, this tool works perfectly.
GIF is limited to 256 colours per frame, which causes visible banding and dithering on photographs and complex images. PNG supports millions of colours and full alpha transparency, producing much higher-quality static images at similar or smaller file sizes. PNG replaced GIF for static images decades ago for this reason.
GIF supports binary transparency — pixels are either fully transparent or fully opaque. PNG supports full alpha transparency. When converting, transparent areas in the GIF will be preserved as transparent in the PNG output, but partial transparency (semi-transparent pixels) is not possible in GIF, so nothing is lost in that regard.
No. Everything happens in your browser using the Canvas API — no data is sent to any server. You can disconnect from the internet after the page loads and conversion will still work.
Yes. Drop or select multiple GIF files, click "Convert All," then "Download All" to get a ZIP of all extracted PNG files at once.