PNG keeps every pixel and the transparency your GIF carries. Animated GIFs convert their first frame. Everything runs locally in this tab.
PNG was literally designed to replace GIF for still images: it compresses better, supports full 24-bit color instead of a 256-color palette, and carries proper 8-bit transparency instead of GIF’s all-or-nothing single transparent color. Converting a GIF logo, icon, or diagram to PNG gives you a file that modern tools expect, with cleaner edges anywhere transparency meets color.
The tool decodes your GIF with the browser’s built-in decoder inside a Web Worker and re-encodes it as PNG — a lossless format — so every pixel of the decoded image survives exactly. Transparent regions stay transparent. For animated GIFs, the first frame becomes the PNG; if you need a different frame, pause the animation in an editor first and export that frame as a still.
As with every tool on this site, your images never leave your device: there is no upload, no server-side queue, and no stored copy. Batch conversion and ZIP download are built in.
For graphics — logos, line art, screenshots — PNG is usually smaller than GIF at identical quality. For noisy photographic images, PNG can come out larger, because lossless compression must store all that detail; if size matters more than perfect fidelity there, JPG or WebP is the better target.
No. PNG is lossless, so the decoded image is stored exactly — every pixel and every transparent region survives unchanged.
PNG is a still format, so the first frame of the animation is converted. The animation itself is not preserved.
No. The GIF is decoded and re-encoded entirely in your browser; the site has no servers that ever see your files.
For logos, icons, and other flat graphics, usually yes. For photo-like images PNG can be larger, since it stores every pixel losslessly.