Awesome GIF

A curated list of awesome GIF resources.

A list of tools, scripts, libraries, examples & other resources related to the Graphics Interchange Format (GIF).

Contents

• General Tools
• Utilities
• Libraries
  • ActionScript
  • C++
  • C#
  • Haxe
  • Java
  • JavaScript
  • PHP
  • Objective-C
  • Swift
• GUI
• Hosting
• Online Tools
• Community
• Scripts
  • Frames to GIF
  • GIF to frames
  • High quality GIF
  • Optimize GIF
  • Lossy GIF Compressor
  • Making GIF from video
  • Cinemagraphs
  • Perfect loop
  • YouTube video to GIF
  • Grabbing each frame of an HTML5 canvas
• Miscellaneous

General Tools

• FFmpeg
• ImageMagick
• GraphicsMagick - GraphicsMagick is usually faster than ImageMagick.
• MoviePy - Python module for video editing.

Utilities

• Gifgen - Simple high quality GIF encoding.
• Gifify - Convert screen recording into GIF.
• Gifs - Storage place for GIFs.
• Gifshot - Create animated GIFs from media by Yahoo. (demo)
• Gifsockets - Real Time communication library using Animated GIFs as a transport.
• X-gif - A web component for flexible GIF playback.
• GifW00t - JavaScript web recorder.
• gif-machine - GIF creation from YouTube videos.
• gifstreaming - Live video streaming server.
• Screengif - Create animated GIF screencasts.
• vnc-over-gif - Serves screen updates as animated GIF over http.
• gifdeck - Convert your SlideShares into animated GIFs.
• Gifbot - GIF search for Slack.
• Gif-camera - Create animated GIFs using webcam.
• Gifline - Chrome extension to put GIFs in your emails.
• Gifdrop - Create a repository for your collection of GIF images.
• Gh-gif - NodeGH plugin for commenting on pull requests/issues using GIF reactions.
• Tty2gif - Record scripts and their outputs into both binary and GIF formats.
• Giftoppr - Sync your favourite GIFs with Dropbox.
• Gifit - Chrome extension to make a GIF from a YouTube video.
• Ccapture.js - Capture animations created with HTML5 canvas.
• Kap - Beautiful open-source app to capture your screen and export to GIF.
• Gifit (the other one) - Get a search resulting giphy GIF in markdown in stdout, ala $ gifit kittens.
• gifski - High-quality GIF encoder based on libimagequant.
• Gifcurry - Open-source, Haskell-built editor for GIF makers.

Libraries

ActionScript

• Flash Animated GIF Library - AS3 library for playing Animated GIFs in Flash.

C++

• Node-gif - C++ library to make GIF.
• Gif-h - C++ one-header library for the creation of animated GIFs.
• msf_gif - C/C++ single-header library for creating animated GIFs.

C#

- [dot-screencap](https://github.com/Speiser/dot-screencap) - A simple libary to record your screen and save it as animated GIF. - [WpfAnimatedGif](https://github.com/XamlAnimatedGif/WpfAnimatedGif) - A simple library to display animated GIF images in WPF. - [XamlAnimatedGif](https://github.com/XamlAnimatedGif/XamlAnimatedGif) - A simple library to display animated GIF images in XAML apps (WPF, WinRT, Windows Phone). - [AnimatedGif](https://github.com/mrousavy/AnimatedGif) - A high performance .NET library for reading and creating animated GIFs. ### Haxe - [Gif](https://github.com/snowkit/gif) - Haxe GIF encoder.