Gifox
Delightful GIF Recording App for Mac
Gifox launched on April 7, 2016 with 264 votes, #69 of 4,301 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 10 years on.
In plain words
Gifox is a Mac app that records screen activity into animated GIFs, offering a middle ground between static screenshots and full videos. It features screen recording with free-area or window-snap selection, video-to-GIF conversion, and a built-in editor for cropping, trimming, and optimization. Designed for product demos, bug reporting, instructional content, and team communication, it works on macOS 10.15 and higher and is available through the Mac App Store and Setapp.
written from the facts on this page · September 2026
From the sources
Gifox is a beautifully designed and masterfully crafted app that records your screen into animated gifs – the great alternative between static images and full-size videos. It's your best companion for micro-screencasts and product demos, animated instructions and bug reporting, selective on-screen video capturing.
Gifox for Mac is a simple GIF maker app to create high-quality animated GIFs from screen and videos – record, convert, capture, edit, compress, optimize.
Also available on the Mac App Store and Setapp . Works on macOS 10.15 Catalina & higher. Looking for original version ? Gifox is used by many teams in amazing companies to exchange ideas, report bugs, help customers, revive presentations and much more! Use free-area selection mode to capture any part of a screen, or window-snap mode to create pixel-perfect recordings of any app. Drop videos and image sequences to convert them into GIFs, then drag them into other apps to quickly send away. Use built-in editor with advanced tools to quickly crop, cut, trim, re-arrange and re-export recorded and imported videos. Decide what to record, how to record it: cursor, mouse clicks and keyboard input,…from gifox.app
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