Why pull frames out of a GIF
Sometimes you need one perfect moment from an animation: a still for a video thumbnail, a cover image for a blog post, a screenshot of a UI recording for documentation, or a clean frame from a reaction GIF to use as a sticker. Pausing and taking a screenshot rarely lands on the right frame and adds whatever is around it on the screen.
Other times you need all of them. Animators and game makers split GIFs into frames to build sprite sheets, retouch a single frame or reuse a sequence in another program. Teachers and researchers step through an animation one frame at a time to explain a motion or a process.
Designers also extract frames to check an animation before publishing it, to find a frame with a typo or a glitch, or to pick a few key frames for a printed storyboard or a PDF handout.
What you get
Every frame becomes its own PNG image, and all of them download together in one ZIP. PNG keeps each frame exactly as it is without adding compression, and transparent areas stay transparent. Up to 300 frames are handled per animation.
You can keep the original size or shrink the longest side to 320, 480 or 720 pixels. Smaller frames are handy for previews and contact sheets; the original size is best for editing.
Because the frames are separate files, you can open any of them in a photo editor, crop one for a profile picture, compress one for a website, or convert one to JPG with the other image tools.
Works with animated WEBP too
The same tool splits animated WEBP files, which many websites now use instead of GIF. That's useful when you want the frames of a WEBP sticker or banner animation as normal images.
Reading an animation frame by frame needs Chrome, Edge or Firefox. Safari can't do it yet, and the page warns you instead of giving you a half-done result. Keep in mind that a GIF only holds 256 colors per frame, so the PNG frames show exactly those colors; extracting doesn't add detail the GIF didn't have.
Rebuild, edit, or keep
Once you have the frames, you can edit them in any photo editor and then put them back together with Images to GIF, choosing the speed and size. If you only need the first frame as a still image, GIF to PNG is quicker.
Everything happens in your browser. Your GIF is never uploaded or stored, there's no sign-up and no watermark, and it's free.