GIF to PNG
Save a GIF as a still PNG โ first frame, honestly labelled.
About this converter
GIF in, PNG out โ transparency preserved, colours untouched, batches welcome. For animated GIFs this captures the first frame, and says so up front rather than pretending to be a frame extractor.
When this conversion makes sense
Static GIFs are still everywhere โ decades of clip art, forum graphics, old-web buttons and legacy exports โ and PNG is simply the better container for all of them: GIF caps images at a 256-colour palette (a 1987 constraint that never left), while PNG stores full 24-bit colour plus proper alpha-channel transparency instead of GIF's all-or-nothing single transparent colour. The conversion is lossless for anything a GIF can hold. For ANIMATED GIFs, the honest fine print: a canvas receives only the first frame from the browser's decoder, so that's what exports โ right for making a thumbnail or poster image of an animation, wrong if you hoped for every frame. Screen recordings wanting to BECOME animations are better served by the screen recorder's video output. The modern formats do everything GIF did better โ WebP and AVIF are the forward direction.
Frequently asked questions
What happens with an animated GIF?
You get the first frame as a PNG โ the browser's decoder hands a canvas exactly that. It's the right tool for a poster/thumbnail, not a frame-by-frame extractor.
Does GIF transparency survive?
Yes โ and it upgrades: GIF's single fully-transparent colour becomes proper PNG alpha, so edges that looked jagged on coloured backgrounds can finally be fixed in an editor.
Is the conversion lossless?
For static GIFs, completely โ every colour a GIF can hold (256 per palette) fits losslessly in PNG's 16 million.
Why convert old GIFs at all?
PNG compresses better, supports full colour and real transparency, and every tool made this century prefers it. GIF earns its keep only when animating.