Turn APNG animations into GIF. It is converted in your browser, so the file never leaves your device.
Drop APNG files here
or choose from your computer paste with Ctrl V
from Photos or Files
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Drop APNG (animated PNG) files onto the box above, or click it to choose them. ToAny reads the file's contents to detect the type, so a wrong extension does not matter.
Press Convert. Open Options first if you want to change the defaults. The work happens in this tab and can take a while for large files.
Save the GIF, or download everything as one ZIP if you converted several files.
The APNG to GIF converter is part of this page and runs inside your browser. Your animations are never sent to ToAny or to anyone else.
Nothing has to travel to a server and back, so work starts the moment you press Convert. How long it takes depends on your device and the size of the file.
No sign-up, no email address and no watermark. Add several files and download them together as a ZIP.
APNG is lossless and large, and many apps show only its first frame. GIF plays and loops automatically in every browser, chat app and email client. APNG is at home in animated stickers and graphics that need real transparency; GIF is the usual choice for short looping clips and reactions.
The defaults suit most files. Under Options you can set the frame rate, set the width and trim the start and end. This is demanding work for a browser: a long or high-resolution file can take several minutes, and your device does all of it, so keep the tab open.
This pair uses the compatibility engine, ffmpeg built for the browser, because APNG is not handled by the browser's built-in codecs. It is a one-off download of about 10 MB that the browser keeps, it is slower than the built-in codecs, and it takes files up to 1 GB. A GIF covers at most 30 seconds, counted from the start point you set under Options (the beginning of the video by default), so a longer clip is cut there. The defaults are 12 frames per second and 480 pixels wide, which keeps the file a sensible size.
APNG extends PNG with animation while staying backwards compatible: a program that knows only PNG shows the first frame. Unlike GIF it has 24-bit colour and a full alpha channel. Firefox pioneered it and every major browser now plays it.
Opens in All current browsers; many image viewers show only the first frame
APNG converterGIF is a 1987 format that survives because it loops silently everywhere. Each frame can use at most 256 colours, so photos and video look grainy and files are far larger than an equivalent MP4.
Opens in Every browser, phone and messaging app
GIF converter| APNGAnimated PNG | GIFGIF image | |
|---|---|---|
| Stands for | Animated Portable Network Graphics | Graphics Interchange Format |
| Type | Raster image | Raster image, often animated |
| Compression | Lossless | Lossless, but limited to 256 colours per frame |
| Transparency | Yes, full alpha channel | On or off only (no soft edges) |
| Animation | Yes | Yes |
| Introduced | 2004, by Mozilla | 1987, by CompuServe |
| Opens in | All current browsers; many image viewers show only the first frame | Every browser, phone and messaging app |
| Best for | Animated stickers and graphics that need real transparency | Short looping clips and reactions |
| File extension | .apng | .gif |
No. The APNG to GIF conversion runs inside your browser, on your own phone or computer. The file is not sent to ToAny or to anyone else.
Yes, for photos: GIF holds at most 256 colours, so the picture is reduced to a 256-colour palette and smooth gradients can show bands. Graphics that already use few colours come through unchanged.
Yes. Add as many as you like, convert them together and download each result or all of them as one ZIP.
The steps are the same everywhere because ToAny runs in the web browser: open this page in a current version of Chrome, Edge, Safari or Firefox, add the APNG file, press Convert and save the GIF. There is nothing to install.
Yes. APNG to GIF runs on the compatibility engine, which takes files up to 1 GB, and a long clip takes a while because it is slower than the browser's built-in codecs. Beyond that the limit is your device's memory, since nothing is uploaded; a computer copes with large files better than a phone.