Gifski

Highest-quality GIF encoder

39 followers

Design & Creative•Video editing•Mobile editing apps

gifski converts video frames to GIF animations using pngquant's fancy features for efficient cross-frame palettes and temporal dithering. It produces animated GIFs that use thousands of colors per frame.

Free

Launch tags:

Mac•Design Tools•Open Source

Launch Team

Kornel

Sindre Sorhus

Maker

ffmpeg by default uses a fixed palette, making GIFs awfully dithered. Other tools aren't much better — they mostly generate a single not-so-great palette for the entire 256-color animation. gif.ski is different. It uses pngquant to make unique palette for every frame, and combines colors across frames, using thousands of colors in a GIF. The result is so nice you may not believe it's a GIF, but it really is 100% GIF. Only gotcha: GIF as a video format is incredibly inefficient. Don't be surprised when your video clip's filesize balloons when taken back in time to 1989, but hey, it'll work everywhere.

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7yr ago

Ryan Hoover

Product Hunt

LOL, love how you change the mouse cursor when hovering over the Mac App Store button. 😂

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7yr ago

Sindre Sorhus

Scratchpad

Maker

Hey. Kornel and I made this app over the past month. It's a Mac app front-end for his amazing GIF encoder by the same name. If you don't know Kornel, he's the creator of ImageOptim, which many of you probably have used, and lots of other image related projects. FAQ Can you support Windows/Linux? No, I'm a Mac developer, but there's a cross-platform command-line tool available. Is it made with Electron? No, it's a native app made in Swift. The GIF generation part is done in Rust. Can you support macOS 10.12 or lower? No, it uses macOS 10.13 APIs.

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7yr ago