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PNG to GIF is a conversion you do on request rather than by choice. GIF dates from 1987 and caps out at 256 colours, so nothing about it improves on PNG. What it has going for it is that even the oldest system on earth will accept one.
Here is the difference that catches people. PNG stores a pixel that is partly see through, which is what gives a logo its smooth edge. GIF has a single transparent colour and no in between, so those soft edges come back hard and stepped. Against a matching background nobody notices. Against anything else it shows.
The palette is cut to 256 shades chosen from your own image. On a flat logo, a chart, an icon or a screenshot of text that is plenty and the result looks the same as the original. On a photograph saved as PNG, skies and skin come back in visible steps.
Old formats are not automatically small. GIF compresses runs of identical colour, so simple graphics come out tight and detailed pictures do not. Both figures show on the row, which is the quickest way to see whether the conversion was worth making.
Palette drawn from your image
The 256 colours are picked out of the PNG rather than from a fixed set.
Flat artwork comes through clean
Logos, icons and diagrams lose nothing visible in the palette drop.
Accepted by very old software
GIF has been readable everywhere since long before PNG existed.
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Not here. Each image converts on its own into a single frame, and building an animation needs a tool that stitches frames together.
A shadow is made of partly transparent pixels, and GIF has no way to store those. They snap to either fully visible or fully gone.
The screenshot, comfortably. Text and flat panels use few colours, while a photo needs thousands more than the palette allows.
Yes, on every measure that matters. Choose GIF only when something has named GIF specifically.