GIPHY CAPTURE is a Mac utility for creating and sharing animated GIFs directly from your desktop. With its help, you can record anything that's being displayed on your screen, export the recording to the GIF file format, and share your animation on the GIPHY website for others to see.
The program is packed with easy-to-configure settings, lets you define a shortcut key for immediately starting a recording, and enables you to add captions to your animations. What's more, GIF isn't the only supported output format; GIPHY CAPTURE also allows you to export your recordings to the MP4 format or save a certain frame from the animation as a JPG file.
The output quality is excellent and the utility immediately uploads your animation to the GIPHY website, without slowing down your Mac in the process.
However, GIPHY CAPTURE might use a couple of extra features. For example, its recorder lacks pause and resume options which might come in handy. Also, it provides you with a few output configurations (for instance, it doesn't offer you many annotation tools) and lets you share the resulting animations only on one website.
All in all, GIPHY CAPTURE is a free program for generating and sharing animated GIFs on your Mac. I'd say it's worth installing it on your computer if none of the aforementioned aspects mean anything to you.
Pros
- Lets you check the file size of the animation before exporting it to your local folders
- You can define a shortcut for immediately starting a recording
- Lets you add captions to your animations
- Offers you quality output files
Cons
- Provides you with a small amount of output configurations
- The recorder lacks pause and resume options
- Offers you limited sharing options