GIPHY Capture. The GIF Maker

Name: GIPHY Capture. The GIF Maker
Rating: 0 (0 reviews)
Author: Giphy, Inc.

Capture, Caption, & Share GIFs

Only for Mac

Free

Age Rating

4+
Years
Category

Photo & Video
Developer

Giphy, Inc.
Language

EN
English
Size

5.5
MB

Mac

** GIPHY Capture was overdue for some love. Now it has Apple Silicon support, smoother editing, lower CPU use, and fixes for modern macOS. ** GIPHY Capture is the best way to create GIFs on your Mac. This free app is simple, powerful, and easy enough for pretty much anyone. CAPTURE INSTANTLY • Create your GIF with just a couple clicks. • Click to start, click to stop! • Capture GIFs up to 30 seconds long. EDIT PRECISELY • Super simple editing lets you get creative, fast. • Pick which kind of loop you like best. • Adjust the frame rate to your liking. • Animated captions: add them, style them, animate them! • Preview the file size of your GIF before saving. QUICKLY SAVE & SHARE • Email your friends your favorite videos as GIFs. • Or just save it for later! SIMPLE UPLOAD TO GIPHY • Hold onto your favorite GIF creations forever. • Easily access them whenever you want. • Share your GIFs on Facebook, Tweet them to Twitter, or send them in Facebook Messenger.

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Does what I need it to do without the fuss.
12/12/2014
ryankyeong
Finally, a gif screen grabber that does exactly what I need it to do without having to go through the lengths of signing up for a service or having to open a browser and go get my gif. A few suggestions: would be great if this app had a Key Command to activate capture. Or if it had an option to run as a regular Dock app vs a Menu bar app. I do like the ability to see recent gifs, but would like them to show up after relaunching. I would be ok if the apps saved to a folder on my machine as long as the app asked where on first launch. Also agree it would be nice to have a FPS control feature. Or perhaps there was a slider for longer vids with lower FPS or vice versa. Obviously, full control of length and FPS is ideal. Also, kind’ve aesthetically weird UI and icon. But overall, simple and non-bloated app.
Does what I need it to do without the fuss.
12/12/2014
ryankyeong

Finally, a gif screen grabber that does exactly what I need it to do without having to go through the lengths of signing up for a service or having to open a browser and go get my gif. A few suggestions: would be great if this app had a Key Command to activate capture. Or if it had an option to run as a regular Dock app vs a Menu bar app. I do like the ability to see recent gifs, but would like them to show up after relaunching. I would be ok if the apps saved to a folder on my machine as long as the app asked where on first launch. Also agree it would be nice to have a FPS control feature. Or perhaps there was a slider for longer vids with lower FPS or vice versa. Obviously, full control of length and FPS is ideal. Also, kind’ve aesthetically weird UI and icon. But overall, simple and non-bloated app.
GifGrabber was better
04/10/2016
halber_mensch
I wish I’d had any control over this update, which steathily happened unbeknownst to me overnight. GifGrabber wasn’t a pretty app by any means, but it did what it did relatively well. As others have said here, some of the new features (like caption, pingpong) are nice for those who want them, but there are some glaring problems here:1. The UI obstructs any and all player interfaces, so you have to start playback early and then manuever the window over it every time and just hope you get the positioning right and in time.2. You no longer have any idea what the size of the file will be, so good luck with all of that trial and error if you want to compress GIFs for Tumblr (which has a 2MB limit). GifGrabber told us exactly what the size would be without actually saving the file, so while it wasn’t perfect, it was reliable. Also, being able to adjust frames by number was nice when you knew that changing by a single integer or two would shave off the file weight accordingly. Now it’s dumbed down to such an extent that it’s only really useful for making GIFs for, well, GIPHY. A coup for them?I miss the old app and wish the developer would allow us to revert to a legacy version...
GifGrabber was better
04/10/2016
halber_mensch

I wish I’d had any control over this update, which steathily happened unbeknownst to me overnight. GifGrabber wasn’t a pretty app by any means, but it did what it did relatively well. As others have said here, some of the new features (like caption, pingpong) are nice for those who want them, but there are some glaring problems here:1. The UI obstructs any and all player interfaces, so you have to start playback early and then manuever the window over it every time and just hope you get the positioning right and in time.2. You no longer have any idea what the size of the file will be, so good luck with all of that trial and error if you want to compress GIFs for Tumblr (which has a 2MB limit). GifGrabber told us exactly what the size would be without actually saving the file, so while it wasn’t perfect, it was reliable. Also, being able to adjust frames by number was nice when you knew that changing by a single integer or two would shave off the file weight accordingly. Now it’s dumbed down to such an extent that it’s only really useful for making GIFs for, well, GIPHY. A coup for them?I miss the old app and wish the developer would allow us to revert to a legacy version...
Worse than Gifgrabber.
04/11/2016
BantsPandit
If you’re coming here looking to upgrade from Gifgrabber, don’t. As “sleek” as this interface looks, it’s significantly worse than Gifgrabber. There’s no longer the option to grab gifs in high def quality (which would’ve been great to know before upgrading to this) and the interface is significantly annoying considering it now has extra space it’s taking up for no reason. A complete over-sight in understanding what users want. You can no longer minimize the capture screen and hit the hotkey in order to start capturing, you now have to hit the hotkey twice if it’s minimized (once to bring the screen back up, and again to start recording) which just doesn’t make sense. Compared to the previous incarnation of Gifgrabber, this is multiple steps back in function and performance. On top of that, the speed at which gifs upload to GIPHY is incredibly slow compared to the uploading time to gfycat from gifgrabber. I wish I could go back. Hard to believe that the creator would choose to remove the ability to create high quality gifs, but they did.
Worse than Gifgrabber.
04/11/2016
BantsPandit

If you’re coming here looking to upgrade from Gifgrabber, don’t. As “sleek” as this interface looks, it’s significantly worse than Gifgrabber. There’s no longer the option to grab gifs in high def quality (which would’ve been great to know before upgrading to this) and the interface is significantly annoying considering it now has extra space it’s taking up for no reason. A complete over-sight in understanding what users want. You can no longer minimize the capture screen and hit the hotkey in order to start capturing, you now have to hit the hotkey twice if it’s minimized (once to bring the screen back up, and again to start recording) which just doesn’t make sense. Compared to the previous incarnation of Gifgrabber, this is multiple steps back in function and performance. On top of that, the speed at which gifs upload to GIPHY is incredibly slow compared to the uploading time to gfycat from gifgrabber. I wish I could go back. Hard to believe that the creator would choose to remove the ability to create high quality gifs, but they did.
Inferior to GifGrabber
04/22/2016
Aliccolo
This “update” is absolute garbage. Not only is it more difficult to use than the previous program, but the quality of the end product is inferior by far. This program makes it next to impossible to calculate the size of your gif before you save it, and you can no longer edit frame by frame. Instead you use the awkward slider to choose the timing of the gif instead of the actual frames themselves. And the size of the gif cannot be determined until after you’ve finished editing it. This means anyone who wants to upload to Tumblr or to another app with a gif size limit have to either guess or wait to check the size until the editing is done and hope for the best. I LOVED GifGrabber and made gifs using it nearly every day. I did not want this update and was so desperate to get GifGrabber back, I found the old beta version on the website and have been using that instead. It’s not as nice as the final version of GifGrabber was but it’s still leaps and bounds ahead of this new app. If you’re as upset as I was with this unwanted “update”, I highly suggest going back to the beta version of GifGrabber.
Inferior to GifGrabber
04/22/2016
Aliccolo

This “update” is absolute garbage. Not only is it more difficult to use than the previous program, but the quality of the end product is inferior by far. This program makes it next to impossible to calculate the size of your gif before you save it, and you can no longer edit frame by frame. Instead you use the awkward slider to choose the timing of the gif instead of the actual frames themselves. And the size of the gif cannot be determined until after you’ve finished editing it. This means anyone who wants to upload to Tumblr or to another app with a gif size limit have to either guess or wait to check the size until the editing is done and hope for the best. I LOVED GifGrabber and made gifs using it nearly every day. I did not want this update and was so desperate to get GifGrabber back, I found the old beta version on the website and have been using that instead. It’s not as nice as the final version of GifGrabber was but it’s still leaps and bounds ahead of this new app. If you’re as upset as I was with this unwanted “update”, I highly suggest going back to the beta version of GifGrabber.

- Editor - Fixed playback and preview freezes when trimming and editing captions. - Editor - Improved save and export reliability after switching recordings or changing trim playback. - Recording - Improved Screen Recording permission handling and settings navigation. - Recording - Improved clip encoding reliability. - Export - Fixed a crash when exporting GIFs to invalid destinations. - Upload - Improved MP4 upload reliability with smaller exported files. - Upload - Fixed upload actions so they stay attached to the active recording after switching clips. - Settings - Fixed shortcut row clipping and improved editor control styling.

Version 4.3.1 Jun 30

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Seller: Giphy, Inc.
Size: 5.5 MB
Category: Photo & Video
Compatibility: Requires macOS 10.13 or later.

Mac
Requires macOS 10.13 or later.
Languages: English
Age Rating: 4+

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