GIF to BMP Details
This page is a single-purpose converter: it rewrites GIF files as BMP. Drop a file in, run the conversion, take the download.
GIF keeps at most 256 colours per frame and can hold a short animation inside a single file. BMP stores pixels as they are, with no practical compression standing in the way.
The workflow
Three moves make up the whole flow: drop the file, convert, download. The detail is below.
- Drag your GIF files onto the upload area, or click it and pick them from the file dialog.
- The queue takes up to 20 files at once, and anything added by mistake can be removed from the list.
- Convert files one at a time, or hit convert all to push the entire queue through to BMP.
- Rename the output in the queue field before downloading; the extension is set to BMP for you.
- Downloading is the last step: the BMP file goes to your browser folder and no copy stays on the server.
Formats, limits and behaviour
The limits match what the interface shows, and the processing behaves like this:
- Accepted input: GIF (gif), up to 24 MB per file.
- The result is written as BMP and written with no compression applied.
- The queue carries 20 files at a time, and each file travels in its own request.
- GIF can hold transparency and BMP cannot, so transparent pixels are flattened onto white.
- Upload an animated GIF and the BMP result comes from the first frame; the rest are dropped.
- BMP applies no compression, so the output file is clearly larger than the source.
- Do not count on metadata surviving: whether EXIF and ICC data travel depends on the engine handling the file, so keep anything critical elsewhere.
Picking the right tool
This conversion earns its place when an existing GIF file has to land somewhere that asks for BMP. Legacy Windows tooling, a handful of printer drivers and software that wants raw pixels still ask for BMP. Files grow several times larger than the alternatives, and in exchange nothing is discarded. GIF keeps at most 256 colours per frame and can hold a short animation inside a single file.
If the transparent background has to survive, BMP is the wrong destination; pick the converter that outputs PNG or WebP instead.
Small things that help
- Add every GIF file from the same folder in one go; up to 20 of them finish in a single round.
- Renaming outputs in the queue keeps your downloads folder readable once several BMP files land there.
- BMP is written losslessly, so saving again does no damage and the file works as an archive copy.
- Test one file, judge the result, then send the rest of the GIF files through in a batch.
Privacy and data handling
The conversion happens on the server: the file arrives with the request, gets processed, and leaves in the same response. Nothing is archived, the contents are never inspected, and the only thing recorded afterwards is a counter of how often the tool ran.