An animated GIF is a stack of pictures. Pull out the ones you want.
Most GIFs don't store every frame in full, only the rectangle that changed. Convert one of those frames naively and you get a scrap of pixels on a see-through background. This page decodes the GIF itself (LZW, interlacing, disposal), rebuilds every frame as it looks on screen, and writes the ones you pick as lossless PNGs. Open yours, or use the 20-frame test GIF built here.
Every GIF frame points into a palette of up to 256 colours, either the global one or its own. Converting doesn't add colours, but once it's a PNG you can edit, resize or blur it without being forced back into 256. This page writes each PNG the smallest exact way: a palette PNG when the frame still has 256 colours or fewer, full colour when compositing has mixed more than that. Below is the actual palette of frame 2.
GIF compresses with LZW, which only spots exact repeats along each row. PNG's DEFLATE plus per-row prediction usually does better on the same pixels. But a GIF that stores only changed rectangles can beat a stack of full PNG frames. Every number here was written and measured just now.
APNG is a PNG with extra frames that every current browser plays, while apps that don't understand it show the first frame. Unlike GIF it has full colour and smooth 8-bit transparency. Timing is copied from each frame's GIF delay. Browsers bump delays of 0 or 1 hundredths of a second to 10, so the page applies the same rule and tells you when it did.
Yes, GIF to PNG conversion is completely free with no signup, no watermark, and no usage limit. Convert as many files as you need.
No. The GIF to PNG converter runs in your browser when your file is supported there, so the file stays on your device for that workflow, reducing server exposure for that workflow. If the file is sensitive, check the processing mode first.
Most GIF to PNG conversions finish in under a minute. Bigger files take longer, in proportion to their size. There is no queue to join and no account to make first.
Depends on what you are converting between. Go lossless to lossless and the picture or the audio comes out untouched. Go to a lossy format and you give up a little to get a smaller file.
Yes. The GIF to PNG converter works on phones, tablets, and desktops in any modern browser including Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Edge.