GIPHY CAPTURE is a Mac utility for immediately creating and sharing GIF animations with the world. The program brings you easy-to-configure settings, provides you with quality output files, and comes without a price tag.
You can capture your entire screen or just an area from your desktop, watermark the resulted animation, and upload the GIF or video directly from the app's interface. GIPHY CAPTURE gives you access to quality output files which you can preview in its interface before exporting them to your local folders or sharing them online.
This utility might also come in handy if you wish to record video tutorials for an application you designed. You can export your clip to an MP4 file, a format that's very popular and compatible with multiple video editing tools and media players.
Unfortunately, the application comes with two flaws. For starters, you cannot pause and resume video recordings. The other thing that bothered me while testing the program was that it occasionally ran slow, especially when accessing the video editor.
Still, you can test the utility to see how it works on your Mac without paying a buck. Then, it's up to you to decide if it's worth keeping the program on on your computer or look for a different GIF creator.
Pros
- Lets you define a global hotkey for starting and stopping recordings
- Provides you with a quick way to share your recordings
- Allows you to watermark your recordings
Cons
- Occasionally runs slow
- Unable to pause and resume recordings