Gifski
Gifski is a macOS app that converts video clips into high-quality animated GIFs with controls for size, frame rate, speed, and looping.
What is Gifski?
Gifski is a native macOS video-to-GIF converter from Sindresorhus. It helps users turn short video clips into animated GIFs for sharing in chats, documentation, presentations, social posts, and design workflows. The app focuses on output quality, giving you controls for dimensions, frame rate, playback speed, quality, cropping, and looping so you can balance visual fidelity against file size. It supports common video formats that macOS can open, making it convenient for everyday drag-and-drop use. Gifski also integrates with macOS through sharing features and system services, which can speed up quick conversions from other apps or Finder-based workflows.
Key features
- Convert video clips into animated GIFs on macOS
- Adjust GIF dimensions, frame rate, speed, and quality
- Crop source video before exporting
- Choose looping behavior, including bounce playback
- Use drag and drop for quick video imports
- Convert videos from macOS sharing features and Services
- Copy the finished GIF or save it after conversion
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Safety overview
Status: Safe
Gifski is a legitimate Mac app for converting videos to GIFs. It normally needs access only to the videos you choose to open or share with it, and any file access should match that purpose. If you use sharing features or Finder-related actions, the app may appear in macOS integration points as part of normal operation. As with any media tool, review the files you import and where you save exports if you are handling sensitive recordings.
Recommendation: Keep Gifski if you convert videos into GIFs or use it in design, documentation, or social-sharing workflows. If you no longer use it, you can remove it like other Mac apps, but you may lose its quick conversion features and related macOS sharing integrations.
Common paths
/Applications/Gifski.app
Container paths
~/Library/Containers/com.sindresorhus.Gifski
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