# joaomoreno/gifcap

Capture your screen to a GIF in your browser

Repository: https://github.com/joaomoreno/gifcap
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/gifcap
Homepage: https://gifcap.dev
Language: TypeScript
License: GPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Last push: 2026-01-08T17:40:31+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 60/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 61, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2358, "days_push": 237, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1651, forks 117 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:16.947284+00:00)

## What it is
gifcap is a browser-based screen recorder that captures your screen or a single window and encodes it into an optimized animated GIF entirely client-side. It uses WASM with libimagequant and gifsicle for fast, high-quality rendering with no server uploads.

## Use cases
- record my screen as a gif in the browser
- create animated gif demos of an app without installing software
- trim and crop a screen recording before exporting a gif
- make small optimized gif files for documentation
- capture a single window to gif privately without uploading anything

## When to choose
- you need a quick, zero-install gif recorder that works in any modern browser
- privacy matters and nothing should leave your machine
- you want small, optimized gif output with trimming and cropping

## When to avoid
- you need video formats like mp4 or webm instead of gif
- you require long, high-framerate recordings where gif encoding is inefficient
- you need server-side or batch automated recording

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: video-processing, image-processing, wasm
- domain: media, web-development, developer-tools
- platform: browser, cross-platform
- tags: screen-recording, gif, client-side, pwa, privacy, web-server

## Member repositories
- joaomoreno/gifcap (main) score 60

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:16.947284+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:45:02.446823+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/joaomoreno/gifcap (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:16.947284+00:00, sha f1e840e6d36c)
  - homepage: https://gifcap.dev (fetched 2026-08-29T11:18:12.056144+00:00, sha 5cb0b58e3e6c)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.