# phw/peek

Simple animated GIF screen recorder with an easy to use interface

Repository: https://github.com/phw/peek
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/peek
Language: Vala
License: GPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Topics: linux, gif-recorder, gtk3, gnome, screencast, vala, wayland, gif, webm, apng
Archived: true
Last push: 2025-09-24T14:09:08+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 43, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3907, "days_push": 343, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 10555, forks 334 (observed 2026-08-28T04:10:42.324451+00:00)

## What it is
Peek is a simple Linux screen recorder with an easy-to-use GTK interface for creating short animated GIF, WebM, MP4, and APNG screencasts of a selected screen area. The project has been officially deprecated and will receive no new features or maintenance.

## Use cases
- record an animated gif of a screen area on linux
- create a short screencast for a bug report
- capture a ui demo as a gif
- record a region of the screen to webm or mp4
- make animated screenshots for documentation

## When to choose
- you need a dead-simple area-based gif recorder on X11-based Linux desktops
- you want a lightweight tool available in most distro repos, Flatpak, or Snap

## When to avoid
- you are on Wayland - Peek has no native Wayland support
- you need active maintenance, new features, or long-term support since the project is deprecated

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: abandoned
- function: video-processing, gui
- domain: media, developer-tools, operating-systems
- platform: -
- tags: screen-recorder, animated-gif, screencast, gtk3, gnome, deprecated, linux, desktop

## Member repositories
- phw/peek (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:42.324451+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 2026-08-29T17:18:32.628824+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/phw/peek (fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:42.324451+00:00, sha 4938425a1441)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.