Animated GIF Creators

Free and open-source tool for screen capture and recording; enables file uploads, annotation, dark mode, 4K support, and customizable themes.

ImageMagick is a software suite to create, edit, and compose bitmap images. It can read, convert and write images in a variety of formats (about 100) including GIF, JPEG, JPEG-2000, PNG, PDF, PhotoCD, TIFF, and DPX.

Your all-in-one tool for capturing, editing, and sharing your screen.

Ezgif.com is simple online gif maker and toolset for basic animated gif editing. Here you can create, resize, crop, reverse, optimize, and apply some effects to gifs.

Convert videos into high-quality animated GIFs on macOS with advanced encoding, cross-frame palettes, temporal dithering, and extensive color support.

Remember the good old 2D games and their beautiful sprites? With Piskel you can create your own in a few clicks.

Animation graphic editor easy to use. Powerful tool for spriting and pixel art.

LICEcap can capture an area of your desktop and save it directly to .GIF (for viewing in web browsers, etc) or .LCF (see below). LICEcap is an intuitive but flexible application (for Windows and now OSX), that is designed to be lightweight and function with high performance.

Create privacy-focused, client-side GIF emojis with customizable glasses, styles, and frames. Uses MediaPipe for precision scaling and placement.

Image editor combining professional features with AI tools for background removal, live text detection, unlimited layers, vector shapes, and broad file support.

GifCam is a handy and reliable application designed to record the screen and to convert the recordings into GIF format.

Converts video files into high-quality animated GIF and WebP images with adjustable resolution, frame rate, filters, palette, dithering, and user-friendly previews.

Extracts video segments to animated GIFs with color palette editing, dithering, text and graphics insertion, cropping, filtering, looping, and optimization support.

Online photo editor for cropping, resizing, rotating images, applying effects, creating slideshows, collages, animated GIFs, and video-to-GIFs.

Ashampoo Snap Pro 26 is a software solution for screenshots and video captures on Windows. Screen portions, entire windows, or scrollable content can be captured quickly and then edited in the integrated editor.

Draw frame-by-frame animations and create GIFs directly in your browser. Simple, fun, and powerful animation tool with onion skinning, timeline controls, and instant GIF export.

Gifsicle manipulates GIF image files. Depending on command line options, it can merge several GIFs into a GIF animation; explode an animation into its component frames; change individual frames in an animation; turn interlacing on and off; add transparency; add delays...

JPixel is an editor for making pixel art animations and tilesets.

The Fenêtre Capture Tool for making professional screenshots and screen recordings. With advanced functions and abilities that other free capture tools don't offer.

Peek is a simple screen recorder that allows you to record your screen as gif or mp4, capture a screenshot as jpg, and annotate your recordings with drawing, text, arrows, and highlights.

GIPHY Capture is the best way to create GIFs on your Mac. The free app is simple, powerful, and easy enough for pretty much anyone.

Gifzz is a powerful and user-friendly Chrome extension that allows you to create dynamic GIFs from videos on any website. Whether you're capturing a funny clip from YouTube, a stunning scene on Netflix, or a memorable moment from Instagram, GIF Maker – Gifzz makes it...

Blinkies.cafe is a nostalgic blinkie generator that allows users to create retro animated GIFs reminiscent of early-2000s web aesthetics. These "blinkies" are tiny, 150x20-pixel animated badges often used as decorative elements on personal websites, forums, and social...

Brush Ninja is an online, browser based, animation tool. It’s an easy way to create simple animations, for free, without the need to learn complex software (or spend a fortune).

GIF encoder based on libimagequant (pngquant). Squeezes maximum possible quality from the awful GIF format.