How to make animated PNG images?

In addition to GIFs, ezgif also lets you create and edit (with some limitations) animated PNG (APNG) and WebP images. These formats are still less widely used than GIF, and not all image viewers support them yet, but they offer significant advantages in image quality, full alpha transparency, and file size compared to GIF.

APNG remains one of the best alternatives to GIF because of its broad support in modern browsers. As of 2025, current versions of Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge, and Opera all support animated PNG, covering a substantial majority of desktop and mobile users. Unlike WebP animation, APNG retains backward compatibility with applications or older browsers that don’t support animation — they will simply display the first frame as a standard PNG. More about animated image formats »

If this animation works for you, your browser supports APNG:

If you want to create animated PNG, we have some options for you:

A) converting a GIF to animated PNG

If you already have an animated GIF file, it’s very easy to convert it to PNG. Simply upload the GIF and click the “Convert” button.

However, this method won’t give you many advantages over the original GIF. GIF files use a limited color palette and have no support for full alpha transparency, and simply converting them to PNG won’t improve the image quality because the original color information was already reduced when the GIF was created. It’s the simplest way to make an animated PNG, but it has limited practical benefit.

B) making animated PNG from individual image files

You can upload multiple PNG or JPG images to our animated PNG maker, choose the order, frame duration, and transition effect (if desired), and it will assemble an animated PNG from these images.

With this method you can use the full potential of animated PNG and create images with a much broader color palette than GIFs.

C) converting video to PNG

You can convert a selected portion of any video file to animated PNG with our Video to APNG converter. Upload the file, select start and end times, and it will produce an animated PNG file from the video.

APNG is not well optimized as a video replacement because converting videos to APNG usually produces very large files, which is not ideal for web use. WebP or AVIF animations are often better choices for animated content if you need efficient, high-quality playback on websites.