Convert GIF to PNG

No — that is the whole reason I built this. The conversion runs in your browser using WebAssembly, so your files never leave your device; there is no server in the loop at all. It also means the tool keeps working offline once the page has loaded, and there is no file size limit beyond your device’s memory.

The output is a still image of the first frame — static formats cannot hold an animation, and I would rather say that plainly than surprise you. If you need the motion preserved, you want a video format (MP4/WebM), which is on my roadmap.

Yes — PNG stores the decoded frame pixel-for-pixel, including GIF’s single-color transparency. The PNG is often smaller too, since PNG compresses flat-color images more efficiently than GIF’s 1987-era LZW does.

That is the GIF itself, not the conversion: GIF is limited to 256 colors per frame, so photos saved as GIF were dithered down long before they reached this tool. The PNG faithfully preserves what the GIF contains — it cannot reinvent colors the palette threw away.

PNG, on every measure that matters for stills: 24-bit color instead of a 256-color palette, real 8-bit transparency instead of on/off pixels, and better compression on the same flat-color content — which is why the PNG often comes out smaller than the GIF it was cut from. GIF’s one remaining advantage is animation, and a still frame gives that up by definition.

One: the animation. The PNG this tool makes is the first frame only, so if the motion carries the meaning — a reaction GIF, a screen capture — the conversion throws away the point of the file. Keep the GIF, or wait for video export, which is on the roadmap. Convert when you need a clean editable still, a poster frame, or when the "GIF" never moved in the first place.