GIF to PNG converter

1. Choose your GIF, or drag it onto the box. It is converted in your browser, so nothing is uploaded.
2. Pick the frame with the slider if the GIF is animated. The checkerboard behind the preview shows which parts are see-through.
3. Download the PNG, or download all frames at once as a ZIP.

Nothing is lost on the way: PNG is lossless, so every pixel in the PNG has exactly the colour it had in the GIF frame.

Yes. This is the main reason to pick PNG over JPG, which has no transparency and fills see-through parts with a colour. Stickers, logos and emoji from a GIF stay cut out as PNGs, ready to drop onto any background.

The edges stay exactly as they were. A GIF pixel is either fully see-through or fully solid, so GIF edges are hard and can look jagged on a dark background, sometimes with a pale fringe left over from the background the GIF was made for. PNG can store soft, half-see-through edges, but converting cannot invent them: the PNG keeps the GIF's hard edges, fringe and all.

An animated GIF is a stack of still pictures shown one after another. Splitting it into PNGs is how you edit one frame, build a sprite sheet for a game, make a sticker set, or put the steps of a demo into slides. Each frame comes out as the full picture you see at that moment, even when the GIF stores only the part that changed.

A GIF stores each pixel as a number pointing into its list of up to 256 colours. Browsers, this tool included, save PNGs in full colour with a transparency value for every pixel, which is about four times as much information before compression. So the PNG of one frame can be larger than the GIF frame it came from, even though it looks identical.

If size matters, run the PNG through a PNG optimiser, or save it as an 8-bit or indexed PNG in an image editor. That turns it back into a 256-colour picture like the GIF, and PNG's compression usually makes it smaller than the GIF was.