Crop your APNG image to the exact area you need, then download the cropped APNG in seconds.
This page opens the xconvert Photo Editor with the Crop tab selected. You pick a .apng or .png file, drag a selection box over the preview (or type exact W x H values), hit Apply, and save the trimmed result. It is a single-frame editor: it decodes one frame of the file you give it, and the Save menu writes JPG, PNG, WebP, TIFF or BMP — there is no APNG option in it. So if you upload a genuinely animated APNG, what you get back is a cropped still, not a shorter animation. That is the honest headline, and the rest of this page tells you what to do in either case.
That still trips nobody up on a static .apng — and a lot of .apng files are static. A single-image APNG that came out of a converter is a plain PNG with no animation chunks at all, so cropping it here is exactly the right tool. For a multi-frame source, jump to the "keep the animation" section below.
.apng or .png from your computer. The file picker is not extension-filtered, so .apng shows up normally. Only the first file you pick is loaded — this editor is not a batch queue.| Preset group | Entries | What it is good for |
|---|---|---|
| (top of list) | Original | Releases the ratio lock — free-form rectangle |
| Aspect Ratios | 1:1, 4:3, 3:2, 16:9, 16:10, 2:1 | Square avatars, classic photo crops, widescreen banners |
| 170x170, 1200x628, 628x1200, 1200x1200, 1080x1920, 851x315 | Profile photo, landscape/portrait post, square, story, cover | |
| 320x320, 1080x566, 1080x1350, 1080x1080, 1080x1920 | Profile, landscape, portrait, square, story | |
| 400x400, 1600x900, 1080x1350, 1080x1080, 1500x500 | Profile, landscape, portrait, square, header | |
| 400x400, 1200x627, 627x1200, 1080x1080, 1584x396 | Profile, landscape, portrait, square, banner | |
| TikTok | 200x200, 1920x1080, 1080x1920, 1080x1080 | Profile, landscape, portrait/story, square |
Measured by running the page's own encoders over a 200x120 RGBA test frame with a transparent background:
| Save as | Transparency | Compression | Bytes for the 200x120 test frame |
|---|---|---|---|
| PNG | Kept — full 8-bit alpha, RGBA colour type 6 | Lossless DEFLATE | 2,252 |
| TIFF | Kept — RGBA, no compression applied | None (raw) | 96,258 |
| BMP | Written into a 32-bit bitfield header, but many viewers ignore BMP alpha | None (raw) | 96,122 |
| WebP | Lost — the encoder emits a plain VP8 bitstream with no ALPH chunk |
Lossy | 2,320 |
| JPG | Lost — transparent pixels come back solid black | Lossy | 6,574 |
The practical rule: PNG for anything with soft edges or a knocked-out background, JPG only for a fully opaque photographic crop, TIFF when a print or archive workflow demands an uncompressed master.
Cropping every frame of an APNG at identical coordinates is not something this editor does. Nothing on xconvert crops an animation frame-by-frame today. What is available, and does preserve the animation, is Compress APNG: it is a server-side route that re-extracts every frame at the real duration, reassembles them with apngasm, and honours the Image resolution controls — so scaling an animated APNG, and rotating or flipping it with the per-file buttons on the file card, all keep the loop intact. Files there are uploaded over an encrypted connection, processed on our servers, and deleted automatically after a few hours — no sign-up, no watermark, never shared or made public.
If you can live without APNG, the other two escape hatches are APNG to GIF, which keeps motion at the cost of a 256-colour palette and 1-bit transparency, and APNG to MP4, which keeps motion and gains temporal compression but drops the alpha channel entirely (no video container stores it).
No. The editor decodes one frame of the file, and the Save menu offers JPG, PNG, WebP, TIFF and BMP — none of which is an animated PNG. We checked this against a purpose-built 3-frame APNG (200x120, one coloured circle per frame): after the frame was drawn and saved back out as PNG, only frame 1's circle was present, and the saved file contained just IHDR, IDAT and IEND chunks — no acTL, so it is a static PNG by definition. Use Compress APNG if the loop has to survive.
Frame 1. In our test the first frame's content was on the canvas and the second and third frames' content was absent, even after leaving the image on screen for longer than a full animation cycle. There is no frame-picker on this page, so you cannot ask for frame 12 of 30.
Only if you save to JPG or WebP. Saving as PNG kept the alpha channel intact in our test — the once-transparent corner pixel came back as RGBA (0, 0, 0, 0) and the file was written as colour type 6. Saving the same frame as JPG turned that corner solid black, and the WebP encoder on this page produces a bare lossy VP8 bitstream with no alpha chunk at all, so the transparent region reappears as dark noise.
No — the selection is a rectangle and the output canvas is a rectangle. APNG's 8-bit alpha channel is perfectly capable of holding a circular cut-out, but producing one is masking, not cropping. Crop to a tight square here, save as PNG so the alpha survives, then apply a circular mask in an editor that does layer masks.
Not on this page. The editor loads one image and gives you the four tabs against that image; there is no queue, no reorder list and no ZIP download. The server-backed routes are the batch ones — Compress APNG takes multiple files in a session and applies the same settings to all of them.
Crop first. Cropping throws away pixels at the source resolution; resizing afterwards only has to resample the region you kept, so no detail is spent on pixels you are about to discard. Both tabs act on the same working image, so you can Apply the crop and then switch to the Resize tab without re-uploading.
Because the TIFF this page writes is uncompressed RGBA — roughly four bytes per pixel plus a small header. Our 200x120 test frame came out at 96,258 bytes as TIFF versus 2,252 bytes as PNG, a 43x difference on identical pixels. BMP behaves the same way (96,122 bytes for the same frame). If you want a lossless save that is also small, choose PNG.
.apng file that is really just a still PNG work here?Yes, and that is the ideal case for this page. An APNG with no acTL chunk is a plain PNG wearing a different extension — every decoder reads it as a normal still, so cropping and saving it as PNG is a straight lossless round-trip with nothing lost. Our own single-image APNG conversions produce exactly that kind of file.
APNG animates natively in Chrome 59+, Edge 79+, Firefox 3+, Safari 8+ (including iOS Safari 8+), Opera 46+ and Samsung Internet 7.2+ — about 96% of global browsers according to caniuse. Anything that does not support it, such as Internet Explorer or Opera Mini, displays the first frame as a static PNG rather than showing a broken image. APNG is now formally part of the PNG specification: the W3C published PNG Third Edition as a Recommendation on 24 June 2025, with the acTL, fcTL and fdAT chunks and the image/apng media type defined in the standard itself.