# PNG to GIF

Convert PNG or JPG images to GIF in your browser, transparency kept. Free, no signup, no watermark, and the image is never uploaded.

Canonical page: https://filetity.com/png-to-gif

## Capabilities

- Free: Yes, with no watermark and no page limit.
- Account required: No. There is no account system.
- Processed on device: Yes. The file is read by your browser and never uploaded. There is no server to send it to.
- Formats: PNG and JPG in. GIF out, one file per image, or a ZIP when you convert several.
- Limits: GIF holds at most 256 colours per frame, so a photograph loses colour depth and gradients can band. There is no partial transparency: a pixel is either clear or it is not, so a PNG's soft edges go hard. The output is a single still frame; this does not make an animation.
- Mobile: Yes, on any modern mobile browser. Large files are limited by the memory the phone gives the browser.
- Offline: Yes. Nothing is downloaded to make this work, so it keeps working with no network connection once the page has loaded.

## Questions

### Does JPG to GIF work here too?

Yes, the page takes both. JPG to GIF is the same path as PNG to GIF: decode, redraw, reduce to 256 colours, write. A photograph is the worst case for GIF, because 256 colours cannot hold a sky or a skin tone without banding, and the file usually comes out larger than the JPG it came from. If the destination accepts PNG or JPG, send that instead.

### Why is my GIF bigger than the PNG?

Because PNG compresses full colour well and GIF compresses 256 colours with a scheme from 1989. A photograph loses depth AND grows. A flat graphic, a logo or a screenshot with few colours is where GIF holds its own, because the palette was never the limit.

### What happens to transparency?

It survives, but only as fully clear or fully solid. GIF has one transparent palette entry rather than an alpha channel, so a PNG's soft anti-aliased edge becomes a hard one and a drop shadow fading to nothing becomes a visible fringe. Against a known background colour the result is fine; over an unpredictable one it shows.

### Can it make an animated GIF from several images?

Not on this page, which converts each image into its own GIF. The video to GIF tool builds an animation from a clip, and the WebP to GIF tool keeps the frames of an animated WebP.

## Related tools

- [WebP to GIF](https://filetity.com/webp-to-gif): Turn a WebP into a GIF, frames and all, for somewhere that will not take WebP.
- [GIF to PNG](https://filetity.com/gif-to-png): Turn a GIF into a lossless PNG still, with its transparent areas intact.
- [Image Converter](https://filetity.com/image-converter): Convert images to JPG, PNG, WebP, GIF or BMP, in a batch, with the output your choice.