Open Source Microsoft GIF Animator Alternatives

The best open source alternative to Microsoft GIF Animator is ImageMagick. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to Microsoft GIF Animator and six of them is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to Microsoft GIF Animator are QGifer, Gifsicle, GIF to APNG and APNG Assembler.

Microsoft GIF Animator alternatives are mainly Animated GIF Creators but may also be Image Editors or Photo Editors. Filter by these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of Microsoft GIF Animator.

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Microsoft GIF Animator

Free • Proprietary
Animated GIF Creator

A very basic GIF animator from Microsoft that is small, portable, and does what it says.

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ImageMagick
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Free • Open Source
Image Optimizer
Image Editor
Image Converter
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Xfce
68 ImageMagick alternatives
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.
- - ImageMagick is the most popular Windows, Android, Mac & iPhone alternative to Microsoft GIF Animator.
- - ImageMagick is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Microsoft GIF Animator.
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ImageMagick Features
1. Command line interfaceImageMagick either have CLI support or is a CLI-only app.
Batch processing
Image Processing
Batch image manipulation
Watermarking
RAM Scraping Protection
Geotagged Photos
QGifer
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Free • Open Source
Animated GIF Creator
Windows
Linux
BSD
46 QGifer alternatives
QGifer is a tool for extracting part of a video to an animated GIF file.

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GIF extraction from a video file Color palette editor Variable color palette support Dithering Text rendering Graphics insertion Object interpolation Cropping .
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QGifer Features
Support for HD videos
Qualitative Data Analysis
Built-in Image editor
Convert Videos to Animated GIFs
Discontinued
The project seems to be no longer developed. Last version, 0.2.1, released in June 2013, can be still downloaded from SourceForge.
Gifsicle
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Free • Open Source
Animated GIF Creator
Mac
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Linux
46 Gifsicle alternatives
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...
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Gifsicle Features
1. Command line interfaceGifsicle either have CLI support or is a CLI-only app.
2. PortableGifsicle can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
GIF editor
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GIF to APNG
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Free • Open Source
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28 GIF to APNG alternatives
Converts GIF animations into animated PNG format. Usually it makes the files smaller. CLI version is OS-independent, GUI version is available for Windows.
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GIF to APNG Features
1. PortableGIF to APNG can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
APNG Assembler
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Free • Open Source
Mac
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Linux
25 APNG Assembler alternatives
Creates highly optimized Animated PNG files from PNG/TGA image sequences. CLI versions available for all major OSes.
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APNG Assembler Features
1. PortableAPNG Assembler can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
APNG to GIF
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Free • Open Source
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31 APNG to GIF alternatives
Converts APNG animations into animated GIF format. Wu64 quantization is used for true-color files.s. Transparency is handled either using a threshold, or composed over chosen background color. CLI version is OS-independent, GUI version is available for Windows.
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APNG to GIF Features
1. PortableAPNG to GIF can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.