The absolute best solution I’ve found is a terminal utility called gifsicle (available through Homebrew and GitHub). Especially with Terminal recordings, you really only need 16 colors and just high enough a frame rate to appear smooth. OptimizationĮven with apps that offer optimization in export, you can still end up with larger-than-necessary images. GIF Brewery (also $4.99US) is also a solid choice.
There are two apps I’ve found that work well as GUI applications, my favorite being PicGIF ($4.99US). On the command line, gifify offers excellent tools for converting QuickTime format to GIF with options for controlling frame rate and speed. pngout, A Windows platform PNG optimizer (with optional GUI) that uses a. Converting/editingĬonverting video to GIF can be done from either the command line or a GUI application. You can fix this using a GIF batch compression program such as Gifsicle or. QuickTime Player (bundled with OS X) can do screen recording, but I prefer using ScreenFlow as its editing tools are excellent. This can be a lot less of a headache for things that aren’t necessarily reproducible in sequence on the screen as the editing process is simpler. Another option is ttystudio, which I haven’t tested, but it looks very effective.Īnother option for GIF creation is to record it as video and convert it to GIF after editing. You can also record terminal sessions using ttyrec, as detailed on TuxDiary.
#Gifsicle gui free
The best I’ve found have been Capture GIF and the free app Licecap. You can record GIFs directly from the screen with some simple (and mostly free) apps.
I’ve found some great solutions, though, and I want to share them with people who currently create GIFs and those who might find GIFs useful for their own needs.
There are many ways to create them, but most suffer from issues with cropping and resulting file size. I’ve found animated GIFs to be useful both on my blog and in README files.
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