Gifcap AlternativesScreenshot Capture Tools & Screen Recorders like Gifcap

Gifcap is described as 'It's a tool for creating animated GIFs from a screen recording. Client-side only, no data is uploaded. Modern browser required' and is a screenshot capture tool in the video & movies category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Gifcap for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Web-based and Android apps. The best Gifcap alternative is ShareX, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Gifcap are ScreenToGif, LICEcap, Peek GIF Screen Recorder and GifCam.

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  1. ShareX icon
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    Open-source screen capture and file sharing tool with recording, editing, and annotation features. Supports 4K, dark mode, theming, offline use, and offers a lightweight, ad-free experience without tracking user data.

    253 ShareX alternatives

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
    • Steam
     
  2. LICEcap icon
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    LICEcap can capture an area of your desktop and save it directly to .GIF (for viewing in web browsers, etc) or .LCF (see below). LICEcap is an intuitive but flexible application (for Windows and now OSX), that is designed to be lightweight and function with high performance.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  3. Peek makes it easy to create short screencasts of a screen area. It was built for the specific use case of recording screen areas, e.g. for easily showing UI features of your own apps or for showing a bug in bug reports.

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Ubuntu
    • Flatpak
     
  4. GifCam icon
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    GifCam is a handy and reliable application designed to record the screen and to convert the recordings into GIF format.

    20 GifCam alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  5. Fadim icon
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    FADIM (Fast Access Digital Image-to-Text Manager) is an open-source desktop application for extracting text from images (OCR) and archiving. It can extract text from live screenshots or existing image files, automatically save the text as .txt or .

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. GIPHY Capture icon
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    GIPHY Capture is the best way to create GIFs on your Mac. The free app is simple, powerful, and easy enough for pretty much anyone.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  7. Peek is a simple screen recorder that allows you to record your screen as gif or mp4, capture a screenshot as jpg, and annotate your recordings with drawing, text, arrows, and highlights.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  8. VClip icon
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    Is a simple tool to capture short video clip + loopback audio (speaker sound) from your screen pixels and speaker waves. VClip can output to many format (MP4, WEBM, OGG, AVI, GIF), and comes with 3 fps options (15,25,30).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. Gifox icon
     7 likes

    Gifox is a beautifully designed and masterfully crafted app that records your screen into animated gifs – the great alternative between static images and full-size videos. It's your best companion for:

    23 Gifox alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  10. Giffing Tool icon
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    Giffing Tool is simply put: The fastest creator of high quality captioned GIFs available.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued
    • Warning

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  11. Honeycam icon
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    Make wonderful Animated GIFs by using Honeycam, very easy GIF image-making and editing software! Honeycam is a GIF Maker and Editor.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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