PNG to GIF converter
Save PNG images as GIF for apps and sites that still ask for it.
or drop them here, or paste them
Nothing is uploaded.
About PNG to GIF
Some forums, older email programs and chat tools only accept GIF images. This converter turns your PNG into a GIF that opens everywhere, right in your browser.
GIF can show at most 256 colours and has no soft transparency, so a photo may look a little grainy and soft edges become either see-through or solid. Logos, icons and drawings with few colours come out almost unchanged. Very large images are scaled down to 2048 pixels on the longest side.
Each PNG becomes a still GIF. You can drop several at once and download them together as a ZIP. If you want a moving GIF from a video instead, the video to GIF converter makes one from the first seconds of a clip.
The colours are chosen per image, so each GIF uses the 256 colours that suit it best. Fully transparent parts stay transparent; half-transparent edges, such as soft shadows, become either clear or solid. Your images are converted on your device and never uploaded.
Questions and answers
GIF can only use 256 colours, while a photo has many thousands. The colours are grouped together, which shows most in smooth gradients like skies.
Yes, but GIF pixels are either fully see-through or fully solid. Half-transparent edges, such as soft shadows, become one or the other.
This page makes a still GIF from one image. For animation, turn a short video into a GIF instead.