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ScreenToGif

 116 likes

This tool allows you to record a selected area of your screen and save as a animated gif.

Recorder

License model

  • FreeOpen Source

Platforms

  • Windows
4.2 / 5 Avg rating (16)
116likes
17comments
0news articles

Features

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  1.  GIF Making
  2.  Built-in Screen Capture
  3.  Portable
  4.  Screen Recording
  5.  Frame rate control
  6.  Keystroke
  7.  Keyframe Animation
  8.  Webcam recording
  9.  Snap windows
  10.  Record HD screen

 Tags

  • export-to-gif
  • export-to-video
  • edit-gifs
  • export-to-apng

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  • mtPolisson liked ScreenToGif
    about 1 month ago
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    about 2 months ago
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    3 months ago
  • PredatorQ, y2kay and Jasonnor liked ScreenToGif
    5 months ago
  • TBayAreaPat reviewed ScreenToGif  
    10 months ago

    Works well, but I'd rather have a scrolling capture program that worked well to save on drive space.

  • AuthoritativeProtocol liked ScreenToGif
    11 months ago
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Comments and Reviews

   
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Comment summary: ScreenToGif is widely appreciated for its ease of use, intuitive interface, and comprehensive features, such as capturing keystrokes and optimizing video. The open-source tool excels in screen recording and GIF editing, although it struggles on systems with less than 4GB RAM and has slow performance with FFmpeg for beginners. While some users report crashes in Windows, others praise its efficient compression and output quality. Limitations include its Windows-only availability and challenges with exporting to WebP.
Top Positive Comment
Rolando Isidoro
Mar 11, 2020
4

Great open source tool for capturing screencasts to GIF.

Top Negative Comment
jamesnw
Feb 13, 2020
-3

Crashes in Windows. Even the installer crashes.

Nicke
Jul 7, 2020

Hi James, I'm the developer of the app.

Did you try running the latest version available? (2.26.1 - July 2020)

I would like to know more about the crash. Can you contact me via www.screentogif.com/contact ?

TBayAreaPat
Sep 17, 2024
0

Works well, but I'd rather have a scrolling capture program that worked well to save on drive space.

Max Fisher
Feb 1, 2024
0

It's sad that the app's written in C# and available on Windows only. But nevertheless it's a decent app.

Maxim Kamalov
Aug 6, 2023
0

For photo-like content, extremely good saving (exporting) to GIF. For example, when APNG is 35MB, GIF (high quality preset) is 14.4MB. Of course, the larger APNG is still better for simple slow movement but is also much worse for complex fast movement.

x_dev
Jun 1, 2022
2

After reviewing many other screen recording applications this is the one that stood out from the rest.
It has all of the features i need that many others lack.
-capture keystrokes and clicks -capture region
-follow mouse
-optimize video
-captioning
-blur/hide regions

Shima Ada
Sep 25, 2021
0

It's opensource and free. But FFmpeg is not friendly with beginner and slow. It is difficult to resize the file and if you have a size limit, trial and error are required. It recently started supporting WebP but it does not work properly on Apple Safari.

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What is ScreenToGif?

This tool allows you to record a selected area of your screen and save as a animated gif.

Features:

  • Record your screen and save directly to a gif looped animation.
  • Pause and continue to record.
  • Move the window around to record what you want.
  • Edit the frames, add filters, revert, make yoyo style or slo-motion.
  • Export frames.
  • Crop and Resize.
  • You can work even while the program is recording.
  • Remove frames that you don't want.
  • Select a folder to save the file or simple let the program save in your desktop.
  • Add the system cursor to your recording.
  • I'ts just one .exe, portable.
  • Start/Pause and stop your recording using your F keys.
  • Multi language: Portuguese, Spanish, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Greek, French and Simplified Chines

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ScreenToGif information

  • Developed by

    Unknown
  • Licensing

    Open Source and Free product.
  • Written in

  • Rating

    Average rating of 4.2 (16 ratings)
  • Alternatives

    25 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English

AlternativeTo Categories

Video & MoviesPhotos & Graphics

GitHub repository

  •  25,356 Stars
  •  2,275 Forks
  •  307 Open Issues
  •   Updated Jul 15, 2025 
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Our users have written 17 comments and reviews about ScreenToGif, and it has gotten 116 likes

ScreenToGif was added to AlternativeTo by p_tony on Apr 28, 2014 and this page was last updated Mar 26, 2021.