When PNG is the better choice
GIF and PNG are both lossless, but PNG is the modern format that design tools, office suites, website builders and print shops expect. Logos, icons, stickers, badges and clip art saved years ago as GIF are a common example: you want to drop them into a new slide deck, a Canva design, a Word document or an online store, and the program either rejects the GIF or treats it as an animation.
PNG is also the format of choice when you plan to edit the image. Most editors handle PNG better than GIF, and once it's a PNG you can resize it, crop it, remove a plain background or turn it into a vector with “PNG to SVG”.
Transparency is kept
Many GIFs, especially logos and web buttons, have a transparent background. PNG supports transparency too, so the transparent areas stay transparent in the converted file. That's the main reason to choose PNG over JPG here: the image will sit cleanly on top of any background color instead of inside a white box.
Keep in mind that GIF transparency is all or nothing: each pixel is either fully transparent or fully opaque. Converting to PNG keeps it exactly like that, so edges that looked a little jagged in the GIF will look the same in the PNG.
Animated GIFs and colors
A PNG made here is a still image. If the GIF is animated, you get its first frame. When you need every frame of the animation as separate pictures, for a sticker sheet, a storyboard or to choose the best moment, use “GIF to PNG frames”, which extracts each frame as a PNG and gives you all of them in a ZIP.
GIF stores at most 256 colors per image. PNG can hold far more, but converting doesn't invent colors that weren't there: the PNG looks exactly like the GIF frame, pixel for pixel.
Converted on your device
ConvertirDocs converts the files in your browser. Nothing is uploaded or stored, there's no sign-up and no limit on the number of images. You can select a whole folder of old GIF graphics and download every PNG in a single ZIP.
When you're done, you can send the result to another tool without selecting it again, for example “Resize image” to make an icon smaller or “Compress image” if the PNG is too heavy for a form.