Gifski

Highest-quality GIF encoder

5.0•2 reviews•

43 followers

Highest-quality GIF encoder

5.0•2 reviews•

43 followers

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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

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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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8yr ago

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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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8yr ago

Unfortunately this app crashes every time I try to open it :( | Termination Reason: DYLD, [0x4] Symbol missing

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8yr ago

Sindre Sorhus

Maker

@alexander_king Please file a bug with full crash log: https://github.com/sindresorhus/...

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8yr ago

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Maker

@alexander_king A new version is out. Could you try it again?

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8yr ago

@sindresorhus Yep. Updated and tried it. Still crashes. Crashed Thread: 0 Exception Type: EXC_CRASH (SIGABRT) Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000 Exception Note: EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY Termination Reason: DYLD, [0x4] Symbol missing

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8yr ago

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Maker

@alexander_king You need to update Xcode. For some reason, old Xcode installations interfere with the app. We have not been able to track down why yet. See: https://github.com/sindresorhus/...

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8yr ago

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Maker

@alexander_king I finally tracked down the issue. Should be fixed in the latest version.

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8yr ago

It might be a good app but its inverting my videos, making them into landscapes.

Pros:

I couldnt think of any because I faced a basic problem

Cons:

It inverts any video I convert to a gif. I dont know why

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8yr ago

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Maker

Would you be willing to give it another shot? The latest version should fix your problem :)

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8yr ago

I do not understand too.

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8yr ago

ClubLink

Hello @kornelski and @sindresorhus, I've been struggling converting videos to acceptable gifs with ffmpeg and a bunch of online tools recently. I gave up :/ Either the quality was bad or the file size was massive (or both). What is the ratio of file size from original to gif with gifski using pngquant? I would check but as non-mac user I can't :( A elementary os versoin would be awesome! Cheers, Peter

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8yr ago

I'm planning to use his gif encoder for other platforms. Any developers want to collaborate? Tweet me

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8yr ago

Foreign Ipsum

This... this is an intuitive application that will make my workflow much quicker when creating and posting gifs to Dribbble. gif.ski creates a much cleaner and more detailed gif. Great work @kornelski & @sindresorhus

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8yr ago

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