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Mar 16 - Mar 22, 2026
General Tools
Utilities
- Gifit (⭐134) - Chrome extension to make a GIF from a YouTube video.
Libraries / Swift
- SwiftyGif (⭐2.3k) - High performance & easy to use Gif engine.
Online Tools / Swift
- GIF Frame Extractor - Convert animated GIFs into individual frames online.
Scripts / YouTube video to GIF
- Download it via yt-dlp and then convert it.
Mar 13 - Mar 19, 2023
General Tools
- MoviePy - Python module for video editing.
Utilities
- Gifify (⭐1.1k) - Convert screen recording into GIF.
Libraries / C++
- WpfAnimatedGif (⭐680) - A simple library to display animated GIF images in WPF.
- XamlAnimatedGif (⭐462) - A simple library to display animated GIF images in XAML apps (WPF, WinRT, Windows Phone).
Community / Swift
Jul 19 - Jul 25, 2021
Libraries / C++
- msf_gif (⭐230) - C/C++ single-header library for creating animated GIFs.
Feb 10 - Feb 16, 2020
Utilities
- Gifcurry (⭐1.4k) - Open-source, Haskell-built editor for GIF makers.
Libraries / C++
- Gif-h (⭐536) - C++ one-header library for the creation of animated GIFs.
Jul 29 - Aug 04, 2019
General Tools
- GraphicsMagick - Usually faster than ImageMagick.
Oct 29 - Nov 04, 2018
Libraries / C++
- AnimatedGif (⭐154) - A high performance .NET library for reading and creating animated GIFs.
Sep 03 - Sep 09, 2018
Utilities
- gifski (⭐5.4k) - High-quality GIF encoder based on libimagequant.
Jun 05 - Jun 11, 2017
Online Tools / Swift
- EzGif - Online GIF maker and image editor.
Community / Swift
Miscellaneous / YouTube video to GIF
- Why is the GIF I created so slow? - Using ImageMagick to solve problems concerning GIF speed.
Jan 30 - Feb 05, 2017
Utilities
- Gifgen (⭐562) - Simple high quality GIF encoding.
- Screengif (⭐1.3k) - Create animated GIF screencasts.
- Gifline (⭐69) - Chrome extension to put GIFs in your emails.
- Tty2gif (⭐160) - Record scripts and their outputs into both binary and GIF formats.
- Ccapture.js (⭐3.7k) - Capture animations created with HTML5 canvas.
- Kap - Beautiful open-source app to capture your screen and export to GIF.
Libraries / C++
- dot-screencap (⭐34) - A simple libary to record your screen and save it as animated GIF.
Libraries / Haxe
- Gif (⭐40) - Haxe GIF encoder.
Libraries / Java
- Android-gif-drawable (⭐9.7k) - Views and Drawable for displaying animated GIFs on Android.
- GifImageView (⭐1.2k) - Android ImageView that handles animated GIF images.
- Gif-animation (⭐178) - Processing library to play and export GIF.
- Android-gif-encoder (⭐350) - Animated GIF encoder for Android.
Libraries / JavaScript
- Gif.js (⭐5k) - Create GIF from the DOM.
- Omggif (⭐744) - GIF 89a encoder and decoder.
- Animated_GIF (⭐228) - JavaScript library for creating animated GIFs.
- Gifffer (⭐784) - JavaScript library that prevents the autoplaying of the animated GIFs.
- Gifplayer (⭐461) - JQuery plugin to play and stop animated GIFs.
- node-gify (⭐300) - JavaScript convert videos to GIFs using FFmpeg and gifsicle.
- Gifencoder (⭐477) - Server side animated GIF generation for Node.js.
Libraries / PHP
- GifCreator (⭐326) - PHP class that creates animated GIF from multiple images.
- GifFrameExtractor (⭐179) - PHP class that separates all the frames of an animated GIF.
Libraries / Objective-C
- FLAnimatedImage (⭐8k) - GIF engine for iOS by FlipBoard.
Libraries / Swift
- Gifu (⭐3.2k) - Animated GIF support for iOS in Swift.
GUI / Swift
Hosting / Swift
- Imgur - Maximum file upload is 50MB.
Online Tools / Swift
- Giflr - A web app for making or remixing animated GIFs.
Jul 20 - Jul 26, 2015
General Tools
Scripts / High quality GIF
- Generate a palette :
- Output the GIF using the palette :