A GIF of the area you leave open.

The toolbar stays on screen. Next to it is a clear window. Only that piece is recorded, straight to a GIF.

Download for Windows

Version 1.2.3 · source MIT · the app with FFmpeg under the LGPL

gifcap window: toolbar on top and the recording area below — The area beside the toolbar is the recording

Just the rectangle

No full-screen recording and no hiding in the tray. The window stays where you put it.

Area

Resize the window. Recording takes the pixels next to the toolbar.

GIF

Frames are written as a GIF. A per-frame palette and rectangle diffs keep the file smaller.

File

The finished GIF is saved in your Pictures folder.

Download

gifcap-1.2.3-windows-x64-setup.exe

Installer. Size: 3.5 MB

SHA-256: 14e74fbe0f080d41245eb457e7839cf7cf70e132d1a0ff1e289090efd7e1ac4d

gifcap-1.2.3-windows-x64.zip

Portable. Size: 2.0 MB

SHA-256: cd4e324e04904c4ce8e275e854fd52f38b1cbff7698379df21d4946fd1554543

The source is MIT. The program statically includes FFmpeg, so the program file is under the GNU LGPL 2.1 or later. The installer and the zip contain COPYING, NOTICE, and THIRD-PARTY.txt.