# justinfrankel/licecap

LICEcap simple animated screen capture tool for Windows and OS X

Repository: https://github.com/justinfrankel/licecap
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/licecap
Homepage: http://www.cockos.com/licecap
Language: C
License Family: other
Last push: 2023-09-05T22:05:07+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4427, "days_push": 1093, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license, no_readme
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 5590, forks 465 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:22.674237+00:00)

## What it is
LICEcap is a lightweight desktop application that captures an area of your screen and saves it directly as an animated GIF or its native lossless LCF format. It runs on Windows and macOS, supports pausing, hotkeys, adjustable framerate, and mouse click capture during recording.

## Use cases
- record an animated gif of a bug reproduction
- capture a portion of my screen as a gif
- create animated screenshots for documentation
- record mouse clicks in a screen capture
- make a lightweight screen recording without video files
- capture ui interactions as an animated gif

## When to choose
- you need quick, lightweight animated GIF screen captures on Windows or macOS
- you want a simple tool with no configuration overhead
- you need to throttle CPU usage or pause/resume recordings

## When to avoid
- you need full video recording with audio (use OBS or similar)
- you need editing, annotations, or trimming after capture
- you need native Linux support (it only works via WINE)

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: maintenance
- function: video-processing, image-processing, gui
- domain: media, desktop-applications, developer-tools, cross-platform
- platform: windows, cross-platform
- tags: screen-recording, animated-gif, screen-capture, lcf-format, macos, desktop

## Member repositories
- justinfrankel/licecap (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:22.674237+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 2026-08-29T17:55:30.687592+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - homepage: http://www.cockos.com/licecap (fetched 2026-08-29T08:50:42.980160+00:00, sha f70936f0d932)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.