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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 (⭐561) - A simple library to display animated GIF images in WPF.

• XamlAnimatedGif (⭐365) - A simple library to display animated GIF images in XAML apps (WPF, WinRT, Windows Phone).

Libraries / Java

• GIFDroid (⭐102) - Android video to GIF converter.

Community / Swift

• /r/educationalgifs

Jul 19 - Jul 25, 2021

Libraries / C++

• msf_gif (⭐177) - C/C++ single-header library for creating animated GIFs.

Oct 12 - Oct 18, 2020

Libraries / Swift

• SwiftyGif (⭐1.7k) - High performance & easy to use Gif engine.

Feb 10 - Feb 16, 2020

Utilities

• Gifcurry (⭐1.2k) - Open-source, Haskell-built editor for GIF makers.

Libraries / C++

• Gif-h (⭐430) - C++ one-header library for the creation of animated GIFs.

Jul 29 - Aug 04, 2019

General Tools

• GraphicsMagick - GraphicsMagick is usually faster than ImageMagick.

Utilities

• Gifshot (⭐3.9k) - Create animated GIFs from media by Yahoo. (demo)

Oct 29 - Nov 04, 2018

Utilities

• Gifs (⭐1.6k) - Storage place for GIFs.

Libraries / C++

• AnimatedGif (⭐121) - A high performance .NET library for reading and creating animated GIFs.

Sep 03 - Sep 09, 2018

Utilities

• gifski (⭐3k) - High-quality GIF encoder based on libimagequant.

Mar 12 - Mar 18, 2018

Online Tools / Swift

• Vid2gif - Video to GIF by imgur.

Jun 05 - Jun 11, 2017

Online Tools / Swift

• EzGif - Online GIF maker and image editor.

Community / Swift

• Giphy.com

Miscellaneous / Grabbing each frame of an HTML5 Canvas

• Why is the GIF I created so slow? - Using ImageMagick to solve problems concerning GIF speed.

Jan 30 - Feb 05, 2017

General Tools

• ImageMagick

Utilities

• Gifgen (⭐504) - Simple high quality GIF encoding.

• Gifsockets (⭐1.8k) - Real Time communication library using Animated GIFs as a transport.

• X-gif (⭐2k) - A web component for flexible GIF playback.

• GifW00t (⭐823) - JavaScript web recorder.

• gif-machine (⭐55) - GIF creation from YouTube videos.

• gifstreaming (⭐155) - Live video streaming server.

• Screengif (⭐1.3k) - Create animated GIF screencasts.

• vnc-over-gif (⭐514) - Serves screen updates as animated GIF over http.

• gifdeck (⭐94) - Convert your SlideShares into animated GIFs.

• Gifbot (⭐35) - GIF search for Slack.

• Gif-camera (⭐20) - Create animated GIFs using webcam.

• Gifline (⭐64) - Chrome extension to put GIFs in your emails.

• Gifdrop (⭐38) - Create a repository for your collection of GIF images.

• Gh-gif (⭐21) - NodeGH plugin for commenting on pull requests/issues using GIF reactions.

• Tty2gif (⭐156) - Record scripts and their outputs into both binary and GIF formats.

• Giftoppr (⭐36) - Sync your favourite GIFs with Dropbox.

• Gifit (⭐121) - Chrome extension to make a GIF from a YouTube video.

• Ccapture.js (⭐3.2k) - Capture animations created with HTML5 canvas.

• Kap - Beautiful open-source app to capture your screen and export to GIF.

• Gifit (the other one) (⭐11) - Get a search resulting giphy GIF in markdown in stdout, ala $ gifit kittens.

Libraries / ActionScript

• Flash Animated GIF Library (⭐57) - AS3 library for playing Animated GIFs in Flash.

Libraries / C++

• Node-gif (⭐212) - C++ library to make GIF.

• dot-screencap (⭐31) - A simple libary to record your screen and save it as animated GIF.

Libraries / Haxe

• Gif (⭐39) - Haxe GIF encoder.

Libraries / Java

• Android-gif-drawable (⭐9.3k) - Views and Drawable for displaying animated GIFs on Android.

• gifanimateddrawable (⭐218) - Use an animated GIF as an Android Drawable.

• GifView (⭐82) - Android library to deal with GIF.

• Gif Movie View (⭐460) - Android View widget for displaying GIF animations.

• GifImageView (⭐1.1k) - Android ImageView that handles animated GIF images.

• Gif-animation (⭐172) - Processing library to play and export GIF.

• Android-gif-encoder (⭐325) - Animated GIF encoder for Android.

• Android-GifStitch (⭐42) - Create and share animated GIFs.

Libraries / JavaScript

• Gif.js (⭐4.5k) - Create GIF from the DOM.

• Omggif (⭐663) - GIF 89a encoder and decoder.

• Animated_GIF (⭐221) - JavaScript library for creating animated GIFs.

• Gifffer (⭐757) - JavaScript library that prevents the autoplaying of the animated GIFs.

• Gifplayer (⭐457) - JQuery plugin to play and stop animated GIFs.

• Jsgif (⭐534) - JavaScript GIF parser and player.

• node-gify (⭐294) - JavaScript convert videos to GIFs using ffmpeg and gifsicle.

• Gifencoder (⭐451) - Server side animated GIF generation for Node.js.

• Gif-video (⭐69) - JavaScript Convert a GIF image into an HTML5-ready video.

• Gif-player (⭐61) - On-demand GIF loader/player in JavaScript.

• GifgifLab-face (⭐7) - Facial-emotion detectors.

• node-youtube (⭐175) - YouTube to snapshots and GIFs.

Libraries / PHP

• GifCreator (⭐321) - PHP class that creates animated GIF from multiple images.

• Spacer.gif - PHP script offering spacer.gif 1x1.

• GifFrameExtractor (⭐173) - PHP class that separates all the frames of an animated GIF.

Libraries / Objective-C

• UIimage from GIF (⭐876) - UIImage category that loads animated GIFs.

• GIFRefreshControl (⭐294) - "Twitter music" and "Yahoo! Weather" like pull-to-refresh control.

• UIImageView-PlayGIF (⭐423) - UIImageView category/subclass for playing GIF.

• FLAnimatedImage (⭐7.8k) - GIF engine for iOS by FlipBoard.

• Animated-GIF-iPhone (⭐130) - Support for Animated GIF on iOS.

• UzysAnimatedGifPullToRefresh (⭐1.4k) - PullToRefresh using animated GIF to any scrollView.

• SvGifView (⭐83) - iOS load and display GIF.

• GifHUD (⭐158) - iOS progress hud for displaying only animated GIF images.

• Video-Background GIF (⭐144) - iOS Video Background GIF.

• AnimatedGifExample (⭐39) - iOS animated and transparent GIFs.

Libraries / Swift

• Gifu (⭐2.9k) - Animated GIF support for iOS in Swift.

GUI / Swift

• Glyph - Tool for generating seamlessly looping GIFs and cinemagraphs from videos.

• Qgifer

• GifPro (⭐43) - GIF encoder for Mac.

Hosting / Swift

• Gfycat - Maximum GIF/video length: 15 seconds. Maximum file upload is 300Mb.

• 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

• FFmpeg

Scripts / High quality GIF

• Generate a palette :

• Output the GIF using the palette :

Scripts / YouTube video to GIF

• Download it via youtube-dl and then convert it.