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Supports: APNG, PNG
APNG (Animated PNG) is a web animation format; TIF — the three-letter spelling of TIFF — is what scanners, print RIPs, and imaging software expect. Moving between them is a deliberate step from motion to a single still image: this converter reads the first frame of your .apng and writes it as a one-page TIFF, keeping the 8-bit alpha channel intact when you pick a lossless compression type. If the animation itself has to survive, an animated or video target is the right choice instead — the FAQ below points you at the alternatives.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Full name | Animated Portable Network Graphics |
| Origin | Created at Mozilla in 2004 as a PNG extension |
| Standard | Folded into the W3C PNG Specification (Third Edition), a Recommendation since June 2025 |
| Media type | image/apng (a valid .png file to non-animation decoders) |
| Animation | Yes — acTL / fcTL / fdAT chunks carry per-frame timing |
| Color / alpha | True colour, up to 16 bits per channel, plus a full alpha channel |
| Compression | Lossless DEFLATE only — no lossy mode exists |
| Browser support | ~96% of users: Chrome 59+, Firefox 3+, Safari 8+, Edge 79+ (per caniuse); decoders without APNG show only frame 1 |
| Best for | Transparent web animations, UI micro-animations, sticker art |
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Full name | Tagged Image File Format |
| Standard | TIFF Revision 6.0, published by Aldus in 1992; maintained by Adobe since |
| Structure | Tag-based: each image is an Image File Directory (IFD), so one file can hold several pages |
| Animation | None — TIFF has pages, not frames, and no timing information |
| Compression | Your choice: LZW, DEFLATE, PackBits, ZSTD, CCITT Fax 4, JPEG, WebP, JP2K, or none |
| Colour / alpha | RGB, CMYK, greyscale or bilevel; 1/8/16-bit channels; alpha via extra samples |
| Browser support | Effectively none — Safari renders TIFF, Chrome, Firefox and Edge do not |
| Best for | Print, scanning, OCR pipelines, archival masters, CMYK prepress |
.apng and animated .png are accepted, and you can queue several files in one batch..tif or .tiff.| Compression | Lossless? | Safe for the alpha channel | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|
| LZW | Yes | Yes | General archival masters; read by virtually every TIFF tool |
| DEFLATE (ZIP) | Yes | Yes | Photographic frames and 16-bit data, where it usually beats LZW |
| PackBits | Yes | Yes | Old prepress and fax-era software that predates LZW support |
| ZSTD | Yes | Yes | Modern pipelines only — readers must be built against libtiff 4.0.10+ |
| JPEG (default) | No | No — use a lossless type instead | Smallest file when the TIFF is a working copy, not a master |
| WebP | No | Limited reader support | Niche size-critical workflows (JP2K is also listed but rejects colour input and leaves a truncated file) |
No. The output is a single-page TIFF built from the first frame. Our pipeline hands the upload to libvips' tiffsave, which reads page one of an APNG and ignores the rest, so what you get back is one still image, not a multi-page flipbook. If you want the motion preserved, convert to an animated or video format instead — APNG to GIF keeps every frame as an animation, and APNG to MP4 turns it into a video clip.
Do it in two hops: convert the animation to video with APNG to MP4, then run that clip through MP4 to PNG and use its Frame Selection → Multiple Screenshots option to pull frames at whatever rate you need. There is no single-step "explode an APNG into stills" path here.
It can, but not with the default settings. TIFF stores transparency as an extra sample alongside the colour channels, and the lossless compression types — LZW, DEFLATE, PackBits — carry it through untouched. The default JPEG compression type is a lossy DCT mode designed for opaque photographic data and is not a safe home for an alpha channel, so switch Compression Type to LZW or DEFLATE before converting if the transparency matters.
None at the byte level. Both names describe the same Tagged Image File Format container; .tif is the three-letter form left over from MS-DOS 8.3 filenames, .tiff the four-letter form common on Unix and Mac. Some older Windows applications only register the three-letter extension, which is why the File extension control lets you pick either spelling for the download. For turning existing TIFF files into other formats, the TIFF converter hub collects those conversions in one place.
Choose LZW or DEFLATE. Both are lossless, so every pixel that came out of the APNG survives, and both are read by Photoshop, GIMP, Affinity, InDesign, and essentially every RIP. DEFLATE tends to compress photographic and 16-bit content a little harder; LZW is the safest bet for maximum reader compatibility. Reserve JPEG for working copies where size beats fidelity, and avoid it entirely for an archival master.
Because TIFF was never a web delivery format. Safari renders TIFF images, but Chrome, Firefox, and Edge do not — they will download the file instead of displaying it. That is expected and is not a sign of a bad conversion: open it in an image editor or viewer. For a still frame a browser can render, APNG to WebP or APNG to PNG is the better target.
It is maintained and now formally standardised. APNG started as a Mozilla extension in 2004 and was folded into the W3C PNG Specification (Third Edition), which became a W3C Recommendation in June 2025 and defines the image/apng media type. Browser coverage sits near 96% of users, and any decoder that does not understand the animation chunks still renders the first frame as an ordinary PNG.
Only if you ask it to. Image resolution defaults to Keep original, so the TIFF comes out at exactly the pixel dimensions of your APNG frame. Switch it to a preset, a percentage, or a specific Width × Height when you need to match a layout or trim the file down. TIFF also carries a DPI tag for print, but that value describes physical output size — changing DPI alone never adds pixels that were not in the source animation.
It is uploaded over an encrypted (TLS) connection, converted on our servers, and deleted automatically after a few hours. There is no sign-up, no watermark, and nothing is shared or made public. If you need the opposite direction, TIFF to APNG rebuilds an animation from still images.