Sindre Sorhus
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Chris Messina
Gifski 2 — Convert videos to high-quality GIFs
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Gifski makes it easy to edit, convert, and share your videos as GIFs. It produces the highest quality GIFs on the market. It's a free and open source Mac app.
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Chris Messina
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Love this app — super useful!
Sindre Sorhus
We launched Gifski on Product Hunt a year ago. This week, we shipped Gifski version 2, which has been in the works for many months. New in v2: ✅ Refreshed UI ✅ Video trimming ✅ Precise control of dimensions ✅ Copy, share, or drag the GIF ✅ No forced save dialog ✅ System service You can find the full changelog here. And we are far from done! Next, we plan to introduce the ability to produce lower-quality GIFs for smaller file size, which can be useful for longer clips. We also need to improve the file size estimate. We could use some help on that one. Gifski is open source and we welcome any kind of contributions. 🙌 FAQ What do you mean by "high-quality GIFs"? Most other tools generate a single not-so-great palette for the entire 256-color animation. Gifski, in contrast, uses pngquant to make a unique palette for every frame, and combines colors across frames, using thousands of colors in a GIF. The result is so nice you may not believe it's a GIF, but it really is 100% GIF! The downside is that GIF as a video format is incredibly inefficient and the file sizes are usually large. Is it made with Electron? No, it's a native app made in Swift. The GIF generation part is done in Rust. Can you support Windows/Linux? No, I'm a Mac developer, but there's a cross-platform command-line tool available. Can you support macOS 10.12 or lower? No, it uses macOS 10.13 APIs.
Tommy Jepsen
Works super well! Been using ffmpeg for so long, but this is so intuitive and easy to use. Great job!
Gercek Armagan
Any plans for a rather "lite" iOS version to easily convert short videos to play around?
Sindre Sorhus
@fricklers No plans, unfortunately, although the code is open source so anyone could port it to iOS.
Dima Braven
Cool. Can't wait to try this.
Abhilash Jain
This is great :)
Nathan Guo
kill my exact painpoint to upload to dribbble. neat work!
Yevhenii Peteliev 🇺🇦
Wow! Looks very useful. I want to try it :) Great work!
James Daly
Gifski is such an awesome, polished, well-made app. It's an indispensable part of my DrawKit workflow, creating the process sketch gifs for each free illustration, and this version 2 is an excellent upgrade 👏
Aaron O'Leary
What's new in this update?
Sindre Sorhus
@aaronoleary See my above comment.
Walo Fenton
awesome ! just needs freeform cropping !
Andreas Carlos Freund
This is awesome. Been looking for a high-quality gif service for our app that's launching next month. Will give it a try!
Gabriel W
Mac only? Real let down :(
Kornel
@gabrielwildsmith The CLI version (https://gif.ski) is cross-platform.
Orlando Elliot Goodman
I made my first GIF using your product thanks!
Aazar Ali Shad
Does it compress too?
Sindre Sorhus
@aazar_ali_shad Yes, but it still prioritizes high quality over file size. We plan to introduce better compression soon for when you need smaller file sizes.
Liz Zvereva
High-quality GIFs? Sign me up all day, everyday. Thanks for building such a great tool for us users to use :)!
ATUL KUMAR
How to run this product on windows?
Corentin Robert
Useful app — I use it to integrate GIF to Google Docs. Thanks
Artem Galenko
Why you are better than your competitors?
Sindre Sorhus
@realartemg Gifski is very easy to use and it produces higher quality GIFs than similar apps.
Stefan Salvatore
Nice tool