Turn GIF GIFs into PPM. 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.
Save the PPM, or download everything as one ZIP if you converted several files.
The GIF to PPM 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 the conversion starts the moment you press Convert, even on a slow connection.
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. PPM is the simplest image format there is, readable by any programming language. GIF is at home in short looping clips and reactions; PPM is the usual choice for passing images between command-line tools.
PPM has no transparency, so see-through areas of a GIF are filled with a solid colour, white by default; you can change it under Options. PPM holds a single still image, so an animated GIF does not stay animated. The defaults suit most files. Under Options you can resize the result.
If the GIF is animated, only its first frame is converted and the result is a still picture. PPM stores three bytes per pixel with no compression, so files are large.
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 converterPPM is the colour member of the Netpbm family: a short text header followed by the raw red, green and blue values of every pixel. It does no compression at all, which makes it trivial to write and read in any language and a favourite in teaching and in scripts. PNM is the collective name for PBM, PGM and PPM.
Opens in GIMP, ImageMagick, IrfanView and Unix graphics tools; not browsers
PPM converter| GIFGIF image | PPMPPM image | |
|---|---|---|
| Stands for | Graphics Interchange Format | Portable Pixmap |
| Type | Raster image, often animated | Raster image |
| Compression | Lossless, but limited to 256 colours per frame | None |
| Transparency | On or off only (no soft edges) | No |
| Animation | Yes | No |
| Introduced | 1987, by CompuServe | 1988, by Jef Poskanzer |
| Opens in | Every browser, phone and messaging app | GIMP, ImageMagick, IrfanView and Unix graphics tools; not browsers |
| Best for | Short looping clips and reactions | Passing images between command-line tools |
| File extension | .gif | .ppm, .pnm |
No. The GIF to PPM 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: PPM 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 PPM. There is nothing to install.
Pictures of up to 120 megapixels are accepted (for example 12,000 by 10,000 pixels); a larger one is refused with a message. Beyond that the limit is your device's memory, since nothing is uploaded; a computer copes with large files better than a phone.