Do you need a PNG from a GIF, either one picture from it or every frame it contains?
Don’t worry, this takes about ten seconds. Add your GIF below and choose whether you want the first frame on its own or all of them as numbered files. It runs in your browser, so nothing is uploaded, and see-through parts stay see-through.
Your GIF never leaves this computer. It is read and the PNG files are made in your browser. Nothing is uploaded.
This GIF has a single frame, so there is only one PNG to make.
Why the frames from most converters look broken
This is worth knowing, because it is the difference between a set of usable pictures and a folder of half drawn shapes.
Inside a GIF, only the first frame is a complete picture. The ones after it are usually small patches showing just the part that changed, with a note saying what to do with the frame underneath first. A tool that pulls those raw patches out and saves them hands you exactly that: fragments floating on nothing.
This one builds every frame into a full picture first, the way the animation actually plays, and then saves it. That is slower and it is the only way the frames are usable on their own.
One frame, or all of them
Most people want the first frame, because they need a still picture for a document, a post or a profile. That is the default, and you get a single PNG.
If you are only after a thumbnail or a picture to put in a post, I recommend staying with the first frame. Every frame is for editing work, and sixty files in a folder is a nuisance when you wanted one.
Choosing every frame gives you numbered files in a ZIP, in the order they play, so 001 is the first. That is what you want if you are editing the animation, picking the one moment you want out of it, or rebuilding it somewhere else.
A long animation makes a lot of files. Sixty frames is sixty PNGs, and PNG keeps every pixel, so the ZIP can be far larger than the GIF was. That is the format being honest rather than a fault.
What happens to see-through parts
A GIF can mark one colour as see-through, and PNG has proper transparency, so this conversion keeps it exactly.
That makes GIF to PNG the one conversion in this family where nothing is lost at all. Going the other way, from PNG to GIF, throws colours away, because a GIF frame holds 256 of them at most.
When you want something else
If the animation itself is what you need and it is simply too big, our GIF resizer and cropper makes the file smaller while keeping every frame, the speed and the loop.
Is your file a JPG, a WEBP or an SVG rather than a GIF? Then the JPG to PNG converter and the WEBP to PNG converter are the pages you want. Both work in the browser in the same way.
If the animation you have is a WEBP rather than a GIF, our WEBP to GIF converter turns it into one, with every frame and the speed kept.
And if saving the GIF was the problem in the first place, because you ended up with a video or a still, our guide on how to save a GIF explains why that happens.
Nothing is uploaded, and the honest limit
Your GIF is read and the PNG files are made inside your own browser. The file never travels to a server, and there is no queue and no copy sitting on somebody’s disk.
The cost of that is your own computer’s memory, so the tool stops at 40 MB, and a very long animation on an old phone will take a few seconds. The button counts the frames while it works so you can see it is not stuck.
Frequently asked questions
Does a PNG keep the animation?
No. A PNG is one still picture, which is why this tool offers every frame as separate files. There is an animated variant called APNG, and hardly anything accepts it, so it is not worth the trouble for most people.
Why is my PNG bigger than the whole GIF?
Because PNG keeps every pixel while a GIF holds 256 colours per frame and compresses them hard. A single frame as PNG can easily be larger than the animation it came from.
Can I pick a frame other than the first?
Export every frame and keep the one you want. They are numbered in playing order, so finding it takes a few seconds.
Will it work on my phone?
Yes, in the phone’s browser. A long animation takes longer there than on a computer, because all of the work happens on the device.
Is the quality the same?
Yes. Every pixel of the frame is kept exactly as the GIF had it, including the see-through parts. Nothing is re-compressed and nothing is lost.
If you have any issues, you can ask me via comment, and I will love to help you out.