PNG to GIF Converter

How to convert PNG to GIF

Three steps, start to finish. Drop the images in, arrange them and set the timing, then download the GIF. The whole run happens on your device, so a batch of small stills is usually done before you finish reading this sentence.

1. 1.Drop your images on the tool

   Drop one or more PNG files onto the tool above. JPG and WebP are accepted too. The files are read on your device and never uploaded.

2. 2.Order the frames and set the timing

   Drag the numbered thumbnails into the order you want, set the frame delay in milliseconds, and choose the loop count: forever, once, or a custom number.

3. 3.Convert and download the GIF

   Press Convert to GIF, check the preview in the results card, and download the file. One image gives you a still GIF; several give you an animation.

Make an animated GIF from PNG images

Several stills become frames. Add the images, drag the numbered thumbnails into playback order, and the tool writes them as one animation. The default delay is 100 ms per frame, which plays at 10 frames per second — a twelve-image png animated gif runs for 1.2 seconds per loop.

Timing has one quirk worth knowing. GIF stores frame delays in whole hundredths of a second, so 100 ms is stored exactly and an odd value like 35 ms gets rounded to the nearest hundredth. To animate a png set that was exported at 24 fps, use about 40 ms and accept a small drift; nothing you can do in any format will avoid it.

• Order comes from the thumbnails, not from file names — drag until it reads right.
• Loop control: forever, once, or a custom repeat count.
• Mixed sizes are handled: images of different sizes are fitted inside the first image canvas with transparent padding, centered, never stretched.

That last rule is why the first image you add matters most. It sets the output dimensions for every frame that follows, so put your largest or most important image first when you animate png sequences of uneven size.

What survives the conversion

Shape, size, and sharpness survive untouched. Color depth does not. PNG holds unlimited colors and 256 levels of soft transparency, while a GIF frame holds at most 256 colors with on/off transparency. Flat graphics, screenshots, text, and line art come through identical.

Photos are the honest exception. The 800x600 photo-style PNG in the measured table dropped from 1,030 KB to 403 KB, a 61% cut, and that saving is paid for in color: skies and skin tones band where a smooth gradient was flattened into 256 steps. If your source is a photo and you need every shade, GIF is the wrong container and no png to gif conversion will change that.

If the finished GIF is heavier than the place you want to post it allows, run it through the GIF Compressor.

Transparency: what happens to soft edges

A transparent PNG becomes a transparent GIF here, so the page works as a transparent gif maker for logos and stickers. The catch is the edges. GIF transparency is on/off per pixel: this tool makes pixels at or below 50% alpha fully transparent and keeps the rest opaque, so anti-aliased outlines and drop shadows turn hard.

The fix takes ten seconds in any editor. Flatten soft shadows and feathered edges onto the background color the GIF will sit on before converting, then let the tool cut only the fully empty area. Hard-edged art needs nothing at all — the 5 KB sticker in the table came out as a clean 3 KB transparent GIF.

One limit stated plainly: animated png to gif is not supported yet. APNG is a separate format from still PNG, and the apng to gif converter is the next tool being built.

PNG to GIF: measured

Real runs of this tool at default settings, measured on August 15, 2026. Three inputs, a still set, a photo, and a transparent sticker, with the output size and the time each one took.

Read together, the rows show three things: stills stay tiny, photos shrink 61% but drop to 256 colors, and transparency survives intact.

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