Turn GIF GIFs into APNG. It is converted in your browser, so the file never leaves your device.
Drop GIF files here
or choose from your computer paste with Ctrl V
from Photos or Files
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Drop GIF 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 APNG, or download everything as one ZIP if you converted several files.
The GIF to APNG converter is part of this page and runs inside your browser. Your GIFs 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.
GIF is limited to 256 colours and produces very large files for anything longer than a few seconds. APNG animates with full colour and smooth transparency, which GIF cannot do. GIF is at home in short looping clips and reactions; APNG is the usual choice for animated stickers and graphics that need real transparency.
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 GIF 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. The result is a looping animation of at most 30 seconds, counted from the start point you set under Options. The GIF's own frame timing is kept unless you choose a frame rate, and the picture is scaled down to 480 pixels wide at most, never enlarged. Unlike a GIF it keeps full colour and smooth transparency, and it has no sound.
GIF 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 converterAPNG 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 converter| GIFGIF image | APNGAnimated PNG | |
|---|---|---|
| Stands for | Graphics Interchange Format | Animated Portable Network Graphics |
| Type | Raster image, often animated | Raster image |
| Compression | Lossless, but limited to 256 colours per frame | Lossless |
| Transparency | On or off only (no soft edges) | Yes, full alpha channel |
| Animation | Yes | Yes |
| Introduced | 1987, by CompuServe | 2004, by Mozilla |
| Opens in | Every browser, phone and messaging app | All current browsers; many image viewers show only the first frame |
| Best for | Short looping clips and reactions | Animated stickers and graphics that need real transparency |
| File extension | .gif | .apng |
No. The GIF to APNG conversion runs inside your browser, on your own phone or computer. The file is not sent to ToAny or to anyone else.
No further quality is lost: APNG stores the decoded pixels exactly. The result is identical in content.
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 GIF file, press Convert and save the APNG. There is nothing to install.
Yes. GIF to APNG 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.