sindresorhus/Gifski

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Gifski is a macOS app wrapping the gifski encoder to convert videos into high-quality animated GIFs using pngquant's cross-frame palettes and temporal dithering. It supports settings like dimensions, frame rate, quality, cropping, and looping, plus a share extension and system service for quick conversions.

Use cases

• convert mp4 or mov videos to high-quality gifs on mac
• make smooth animated gifs of design work for dribbble
• compress screen recordings into shareable gif animations
• create gifs with thousands of colors and up to 50 fps
• crop, resize, or adjust speed and frame rate of a gif
• convert a video to gif directly from the share menu

When to choose

• you need top-quality animated GIFs from video on macOS
• you want a simple GUI with quality, size, and frame-rate controls
• you want to convert screen recordings via share menu or system services

When to avoid

• you need a cross-platform or command-line-only converter (use the gifski CLI instead)
• you need QuickTime Animation format input
• you are not on macOS

Facets

application · maturity active

video-processing image-processing gui media graphics cross-platform gif gif-encoder video-converter pngquant swiftui share-extension video macos swift

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