BriskFile

Convert GIF to PNG

Drop your GIF files below. They are converted on your own device and never sent anywhere.

Convert to PNG when you have a still GIF — a logo, an icon, a diagram — and want a modern lossless format that compresses better. It is converted by your own browser here, so the file is never uploaded.

Nothing is uploaded. Your files are read by this page and processed by your own processor. Open the Network tab and watch — you will not see them leave.

GIF and PNG, and why you would move between them

A GIF is limited to 256 colours. That constraint is why old GIFs of photographs look speckled and banded — the encoder had to approximate every colour in the image with one of 256, usually by dithering, and the dither pattern is baked into the pixels.

Converting to PNG gives you a lossless copy with a full 24-bit colour palette available. It will not undo the dithering that is already there, but nothing further degrades, and PNG almost always stores the same 256-colour image in less space than GIF did.

Things that catch people out

  • Animation is not preserved. A PNG holds one frame; converting an animated GIF gives you the first frame only.
  • The 256-colour limit and any dithering are already part of the image and stay. PNG preserves the pixels exactly, including the speckling.
  • GIF transparency is on-or-off per pixel with no partial values, so edges that looked hard in the GIF stay hard in the PNG.

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Questions

Can I convert an animated GIF to PNG?

Only the first frame. APNG exists and does support animation, but almost nothing produces it and support is inconsistent. For an animation you want to keep, WebP or MP4 are the practical destinations.

Will PNG give my GIF more colours?

No. The colours were reduced to 256 when the GIF was made and that is permanent. PNG can store far more, but there is nothing left to restore.

What BriskFile will not do to you

  • Your files never leave your device

    Every conversion runs in your browser. Open DevTools, watch the Network tab, and you will see no upload — because there is not one.

  • No account, no email, no watermark

    Nothing to sign up for and nothing stamped on your images. There is no step between choosing a file and getting it back.

  • No limits at the download button

    No daily cap, no file counter, no "upgrade to download". If the tool starts a job, it finishes it.

  • Checkable, not just claimed

    Open the Network tab and convert something — nothing goes out. Or load the page, disconnect, and watch it keep working: the tool is already on your machine, and your file never leaves it.