Alternatives to ScreenToGif

Records part of your screen and gives you a frame-by-frame editor before you save the GIF. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.

Replacements

Listings that take over the same core job as ScreenToGif.

  • LICEcap

    Tiny cross-platform tool for capturing an area of the screen as an animated GIF.

    FreeProprietaryWindowsmacOS

    LICEcap is a lighter free GIF recorder that also runs on macOS, but it is closed source and lacks a frame-by-frame editor.

  • ShareX

    A Windows capture tool that screenshots, records, annotates and uploads, all driven by hotkeys.

    FreeOpen sourceWindows

    ShareX records GIFs within a larger free, open source Windows capture suite that also handles screenshots, annotation and uploads, without a frame-by-frame editor.

  • Kap

    Open source Mac screen recorder that exports to GIF, MP4 or WebM.

    FreeOpen sourcemacOS

    Kap is a free open source recorder exporting GIF, MP4 or WebM, but it runs only on macOS and has fewer editing features.

  • Gifox

    Polished Mac app for recording, converting and editing animated GIFs.

    PaidProprietarymacOS

    Gifox is a paid macOS app dedicated to recording, compressing and editing GIFs, so moving to it means leaving Windows and open source behind.

Also worth comparing

These listings name ScreenToGif as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.

  • GIPHY Capture

    A free Mac app from GIPHY that records part of the screen and saves it as a GIF.

    FreeProprietarymacOS

    ScreenToGif is free and open source but Windows only, adding a frame-by-frame editor and export to APNG, video and PNG sequences.

Similar software

Related functionality, not a direct replacement.