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Gifox - Delightful GIF Recording App for Mac

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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.

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Francis Perron
The logo look to much like GitLab, but the service seem nice and more complete than http://recordit.co/
Ian Bytchek
Maker
@francisperron @gorkemcetin @manikarthik oh lord, HappyFoxChat and Vox Media too? 😰 Hehe, true, you got us. There were plenty of choices for a fox theme, but we wanted something very plain and very simple. I guess at the end of the day it all comes down to something like that – orange and geometric.
Francis Perron
@ianbytchek @gorkemcetin @manikarthik I absolutely understand you! Its like for my business, we use a G and it look like Google.
Ryan Hoover
CloudApp is my go-to GIF-recording tool but this looks pretty slick too.
Daniel Lee
@rrhoover do you use it for making quick product demos? GIFs work for us but i make a vid, export the vid to GIFrocket, convert the file, and then send. Annoying...
Daniel Lee
@rrhoover also is Ylvis making a comeback? GitLab has almost the exact same logo and that was hunted yesterday...http://pages.gitlab.io/
SeñorBohnke Official
@dleesta actually, like @rrhoover says, you can use CloudApp for GIFs (you can choose between video or gif) and it is what I've been using for demos, too, but it is all automatic and the result not always great. Those extra options on Gifox look promising!
Ian Bytchek
Maker
@rrhoover a huge fan of @CloudApp here, was absolutely thrilled when they did gif support two years ago. It must have suited their purpose, but was shorthanded – low fps on free version, limited recording time, very little control, and I might have missed something, but it was dropped in favour of videos. In the context of sharing, what they have is the best product out there, in the context of gif creation – there's a big void.
Ian Bytchek
Maker
@tombielecki that looks really cool, very-very surprised I didn't come across it earlier…
Ian Bytchek
Maker
Hey everyone, Ian here – one of creators. Wow guys, you are totally rocking my day. We wanted to do a quiet launch, have some feedback, make it into a decent app, then go public. Apparently @t55 had his own mind and decided to do that for us, so I've spent all day replying to bug reports… I'm so happy many of you have liked it, it's so far from being finished or perfect, as some have already found out, contains a few bugs. Sorry for a pixilated horror people with retina displays, the update is already submitted to Apple. For those who get a crash when starting to record – try selecting the output directory in preference one more time, that should fix it. Any problems, questions, suggestions, wishes on sharing integration – please email us, contact details are on the website. More greatness is on it's way, I'll be posting here and on Twitter – @gifoxapp. Peace!
Ton
Hunter
What a great concept. Record all those small thingies you need to illustrate into an animated gif that you can share easily. Lovely!
Ian Bytchek
Maker
@t55 thanks for featuring this! The fun part about gif format – it's older than some of us, many call it lame and want to kill it off, but there's nothing like that. It's one image that contains many, beyond the entertainment, it's great at telling everyday stories that happen on the screen. Yes, it's far from perfect, it's not an answer to everything, but with the right tools it can be so much more!
Kumar Thangudu
Does this allow hotkeying sectioned animated gifs?
Ian Bytchek
Maker
@datarade no, it doesn't. We considered adding editing features, but that is at the end of the backlog, if we do this, it won't happen for another few months. Stay tuned!
Daniel Kempe
This is cool, but then realised giphy have just made one too for free! Did buy it before I knew that though...
Ian Bytchek
Maker
@danielkempe wha-a-a-a-at! Two days after our launch – irony or stab in the back? 😄 My opinionated speculation – they will make it oriented mostly around their service, with limited control and options. We on the other hand will continue prioritising on better gif creation experience and sharing with *all* suitable services. So, I hope you won't regret the missed cappuccino! 😉
May Habib
stop teasing me! i want it nowwww
Ian Bytchek
Maker
@mayhabib ready! There're a few small issues, see my earlier comment https://www.producthunt.com/tech....
Dan Hough
This has been done so many times, by various products. The free ones are restrictive and sometimes buggy, but the good ones are far too expensive. Perhaps someone has finally gotten the quality/price ratio correct.
Tony Bui
Just want to say THANKS for making this app! The performance has been awesome. I’ve tried Recordit.co but faced up the problem with hosting the video and slow performance from making the video to converting it to the gif image. The idea of keeping images on Google Drive is great :)
André J
Quicktime screen rec + https://www.producthunt.com/tech... = awesomeness
Csaba Kissi
When will we be able to download this?
Leo Bassam
No Windows version?
Julien Lehuraux
Love it, really simple to use, great quality and lightweight gif files with default compression settings. What would be cool tho is an edit feature where you can select a range of frames, so we can remove unwanted parts of the capture without recapturing everything.
Armen Mkrtchian

Thanks guys for a very useful tool!

Pros:

Easy to use, Window capturing is very useful when I want to capture iOS simulator

Cons:

Can't trim captured vide(gif)

Alex Tamoykin
Love it!
Olga Sims
I just bought the GIFOX PRO. How do I play the recodrding?
John Ibsen
This is such a solid GIF platform. I use it to record micro-demos to my team all the time.
Jeet Desai
A go-to for creating product gifs! Can't do my job without it.