# sindresorhus/Gifski

🌈 Convert videos to high-quality GIFs on your Mac

Repository: https://github.com/sindresorhus/Gifski
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/gifski
Homepage: https://sindresorhus.com/gifski
Language: Swift
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: gifski, gif, gif-animation, video, converter, convert-videos, macos-app, macos, swift, swiftui, app
Last push: 2026-07-08T14:50:30+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 93/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 91, release rhythm 92, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3135, "days_push": 56, "days_rel": 56, "gap_med": 21, "n_releases_24m": 4}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 8537, forks 322 (observed 2026-08-28T04:10:23.385198+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: video-processing, image-processing, gui
- domain: media, graphics, cross-platform
- platform: -
- tags: gif, gif-encoder, video-converter, pngquant, swiftui, share-extension, video, macos, swift

## Member repositories
- sindresorhus/Gifski (main) score 93

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:23.385198+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 2026-08-29T17:26:21.189623+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/sindresorhus/Gifski (fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:23.385198+00:00, sha d90cab560989)
  - homepage: https://sindresorhus.com/gifski (fetched 2026-08-29T08:26:40.759974+00:00, sha e5db749a8e7b)
  - site_page: https://sindresorhus.com/about (fetched 2026-08-29T08:26:40.769231+00:00, sha 50c6010cf2fd)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.