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Supports: APNG, PNG
This converter turns an animated APNG into a lossless .tif — the print and archival format that scanners, RIPs, and editing suites read but browsers do not. Because TIFF natively holds more than one image, each frame of your animation is written as a separate page inside a single multi-page TIF; a one-frame APNG simply produces a one-page TIF. No sign-up, no watermark.
.apng (or animated .png). Multiple files are converted in one batch.| Property | APNG (input) | TIF / TIFF (output) |
|---|---|---|
| Origin | Extension of PNG, introduced by Mozilla | Aldus 1986, now Adobe (TIFF 6.0, 1992) |
| Animation | Yes — multiple timed frames | No — but holds multiple pages (IFDs) |
| Compression | Lossless (DEFLATE) | Lossless (LZW, Deflate, PackBits) or lossy (JPEG) |
| Color / alpha | 24-bit RGB + 8-bit alpha | 1/8/16-bit, RGB/CMYK/grayscale + alpha |
| Native browser support | Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Safari, Opera (~94.7% of users, per caniuse) | Safari only — effectively not a web format |
| Best for | Web animations, lossless loops | Print, scanning, archival masters |
TIFF cannot animate, but it can store many images in one file. Each frame of your APNG becomes a separate page (Image File Directory) inside a single multi-page TIF, in play order. Open it in a viewer that supports multi-page TIFF — IrfanView, GIMP, or Windows Photos with Page Up/Page Down — to step through the frames. A single-frame APNG produces an ordinary one-page TIF.
Convert the whole APNG to a multi-page TIF, then open it in IrfanView or GIMP and export the page you want as a single-page TIFF. If you only need the frames as separate still images, APNG to PNG extracts every frame as its own file, which you can then convert individually.
For a true archival master, use LZW or Deflate (ZIP) — both are lossless, so every pixel survives. PackBits is the safest choice for older print software that may not read LZW. Choose JPEG only when file size matters more than perfect fidelity, since it discards some detail. In our testing, a 12-frame 1080p APNG saved to LZW multi-page TIFF was several times larger than the source but byte-for-byte lossless per frame.
Browsers display APNG, but professional print and scanning tools expect TIFF, and TIFF handles CMYK and embedded color profiles that PNG-family formats do not. Converting gives you a lossless, print-ready master where each animation frame is preserved as its own page — useful for archiving a sequence or sending frames to a RIP or editor.
With LZW, Deflate, or PackBits compression the conversion is lossless, so color depth and the 8-bit alpha channel carry over intact. Only the JPEG compression option discards detail and flattens transparency. To keep transparency, stay on a lossless type and avoid JPEG.
No. Files are uploaded over an encrypted (TLS) connection, processed on our servers, and deleted automatically after a few hours. There is no sign-up, no watermark, and nothing is shared or made public. To go the other way and rebuild an animation from TIFFs, see TIF to APNG.