# Convert GIF to PNG in your browser.

Web page: https://converter.chabulab.com/gif-to-png/

This is the Markdown version of https://converter.chabulab.com/gif-to-png/, for a reader that would rather not parse the page's HTML. The converter itself is at https://converter.chabulab.com/ and runs on your own device.

GIF is a palette format built for short animations on the web, and it is limited to 256 colours per frame. PNG is lossless and keeps transparency, so it is what screenshots, icons and graphics get saved as. This page moves a GIF to a PNG in your own browser: the file is read, re-encoded and handed back without being uploaded.

Both formats carry transparency, so a transparent background survives the conversion.

PNG is lossless, so nothing further is thrown away. Where the GIF was already lossy, that stops the damage rather than repairing it.

PNG holds a single frame, so an animated GIF converts to its first frame.

## Why convert GIF to PNG

- You want a still, lossless frame from an animation.

- You need a transparency-capable still format from a GIF.

### What to expect

- PNG keeps transparency and sharp edges better than GIF for a single frame.

### GIF to PNG questions

#### Is converting GIF to PNG free?

Yes, and there is nothing to unlock. The conversion runs in your browser, so there is
           no account, nothing to pay and no licence key to enter. Every format and every
           feature on the site is available to everyone.

#### Are my GIF files uploaded anywhere?

No. Your file is decoded and re-encoded inside this tab and never uploaded. The ads on this page are served by Google and do see that you are here, but they never see your file. You can check it yourself: open the network panel and search for a request carrying your picture.

#### Does the PNG keep transparency?

Yes. Both GIF and PNG carry an alpha channel, so a transparent background comes through unchanged.

#### Is the PNG really lossless?

The PNG is lossless, so this conversion adds no quality loss of its own. It cannot put back detail the GIF already discarded, because that information is not in the file any more.

#### What happens to an animated GIF?

PNG holds one frame, so an animated GIF converts to its first frame. The page says so on the queue row rather than handing you a still image that looks like the animation worked.

#### Can I convert more than one GIF file at once?

Yes. Drop a batch onto the page and every file is converted in the
    queue, then downloaded together. The queue also shows the size before and after, so you
    can see what the conversion saved. There is no cap on how many files you convert at once;
    the only real limit is what your device can hold in memory at the same time.

### Other conversions

- [GIF to WebP](https://converter.chabulab.com/gif-to-webp/)

- [GIF to JPG](https://converter.chabulab.com/gif-to-jpg/)

- [HEIC to PNG](https://converter.chabulab.com/heic-to-png/)

- [JPG to PNG](https://converter.chabulab.com/jpg-to-png/)

- [WebP to PNG](https://converter.chabulab.com/webp-to-png/)

- [AVIF to PNG](https://converter.chabulab.com/avif-to-png/)

- [JXL to PNG](https://converter.chabulab.com/jxl-to-png/)