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GIF to PNG Converter

Save the opening frame as a PNG, or extract every frame of the animation as a numbered PNG sequence. No uploads — runs entirely in your browser.

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Any file size, unlimited files

Drag & drop GIF image

or click to select

One PNG from the opening frame — the usual choice for a thumbnail or still.

Preview

Why Convert GIF to PNG?

Frame-by-Frame Editing

After Effects, Unity and most video editors want one image per frame, not a single animated GIF.

Edit in Photoshop

PNG opens in editors and design tools that don't accept GIFs natively.

Use as a Thumbnail

Pull the opening frame for a static preview on social media or in an article.

About GIF to PNG Converter

GIF to PNG Converter does two jobs. It saves the opening frame of a GIF as one static PNG, or it walks the whole animation and hands back one numbered PNG per frame inside a single ZIP. PNG cannot store animation itself, so a frame sequence is how the motion survives the conversion.

The frame export is the part worth knowing about: an animated GIF normally stores each frame after the first as only the rectangle that changed, so pulling frames out naively gives you cropped fragments. Each frame is rebuilt to the full canvas first, which is why every PNG in the ZIP matches the GIF's dimensions. If you would rather keep the animation in one file, GIF to WebP preserves it at a much smaller size.

Common Questions

Yes. Switch to Every frame and each frame is saved as its own PNG, numbered in animation order (clip-001.png, clip-002.png, and so on) and bundled into a single ZIP. That numbering is what sprite-sheet packers and frame-by-frame editing expect.

That is your choice. First frame gives you one PNG of the opening frame; Every frame gives you the whole animation as a numbered sequence. PNG itself cannot store animation, so if you want the motion in one file use GIF to WebP instead.

Yes. Most animated GIFs store every frame after the first as only the rectangle that changed, which is why a naive extractor hands back cropped fragments floating on transparency. Each frame is restored to the full canvas before it is saved, so every PNG in the ZIP has the same dimensions as the GIF.

There is no fixed cap, but the decoding happens on your own device, so its memory is the real limit. A few hundred frames is comfortable on a laptop; a very long animation takes a moment and reports its progress as it encodes. The preview strip shows the first 24 frames and the ZIP always contains all of them.

Yes — both GIF and PNG support transparency. PNG's alpha is per-pixel rather than 1-bit, so soft edges look at least as clean as the GIF original.

Usually smaller for screenshots, diagrams and line art. Sometimes larger for tiny GIFs that already used a 16-colour palette — but the colour fidelity will be better either way. A frame sequence is always larger than the GIF it came from, because the animation's frame-to-frame compression is gone.

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