About GIF
Animated or still image with lossless LZW compression within a palette of up to 256 colors per frame. Converting full-color images can lose color detail.
- Lossless palette compression
- Up to 256 colors per frame
- Transparency
- Animation
Best for: Simple animations and memes
About PNG
Lossless raster with full transparency. Ideal for screenshots, UI and graphics.
- Lossless
- Transparency
- Color profiles
- EXIF metadata
Best for: Graphics, screenshots and transparency
Good to know
- PNG can’t store animation — only the first frame is kept.
Questions
- Are my GIF files uploaded?
- No. File contents are processed in your browser on your device, rather than uploaded to ReFormatic.
- Will converting GIF to PNG reduce quality?
- PNG can avoid further lossy compression, but it cannot restore detail already lost in the GIF source. Resizing, palette conversion, flattening or unsupported features can still change the result.
- Can I convert many files at once?
- You can add up to 500 files to a batch, set a common format or adjust files individually, then download multiple results as a ZIP. Large batches may be limited by your device’s available memory.