# NickeManarin/ScreenToGif

🎬 ScreenToGif allows you to record a selected area of your screen, edit and save it as a gif or video.

Repository: https://github.com/NickeManarin/ScreenToGif
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/screentogif
Homepage: http://www.screentogif.com
Language: C#
License: MS-PL
License Family: other
Topics: gif, recorder, editor, video, webcam, sketchboard, wpf
Last push: 2026-07-28T17:52:48+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 91/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 94, release rhythm 83, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3684, "days_push": 36, "days_rel": 36, "gap_med": 69, "n_releases_24m": 10}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 27552, forks 2353 (observed 2026-08-28T04:11:47.821377+00:00)

## What it is
ScreenToGif is a Windows desktop application for recording a selected screen area, webcam feed, or sketchboard drawings. Recordings can be edited frame-by-frame and exported as GIF, APNG, video, PSD, or PNG.

## Use cases
- record a portion of my screen as a gif
- create animated gifs from screen recordings
- edit frames of a screen recording
- record my webcam and save as gif
- export screen capture as apng or video
- make a gif tutorial of an app

## When to choose
- you need a free, lightweight Windows tool to record and edit animated GIFs
- you want frame-by-frame editing with a built-in editor
- you need webcam or sketchboard capture alongside screen recording

## When to avoid
- you need screen recording on macOS or Linux
- you require advanced video editing beyond frame-based GIF editing
- you cannot install the .NET 9 Desktop Runtime

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: video-processing, image-processing, gui
- domain: media, developer-tools
- platform: windows, dotnet
- tags: screen-recorder, gif-editor, animated-gif, webcam-recording, sketchboard, wpf, apng, desktop

## Member repositories
- NickeManarin/ScreenToGif (main) score 91

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:47.821377+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 2026-08-29T16:54:31.212115+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/NickeManarin/ScreenToGif (fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:47.821377+00:00, sha 60bddbd452a8)
  - homepage: http://www.screentogif.com (fetched 2026-08-29T07:51:28.745575+00:00, sha c4fd6f9f9784)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.