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aseprite/aseprite

Animated sprite editor & pixel art tool (Windows, macOS, Linux)

Stack

C++ CMake npm

GitHub topics

#animated-sprites #animation #aseprite #c-plus-plus #cpp #draw

Updated: 2026-09-21
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2007-09-18
History: 11 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 2,005 open

39,601

stars

Forks: 9,063
Commits: 10,697 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

NickeManarin/ScreenToGif

🎬 ScreenToGif allows you to record a selected area of your screen, edit and save it as a gif or video.

Stack

C# .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#editor #gif #recorder #sketchboard #video #webcam

Updated: 2026-07-28
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-10-12
History: 3 history points
License: MS-PL
Issues: 335 open

27,681

stars

Forks: 2,362
Commits: 1,394 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

charmbracelet/vhs

Your CLI home video recorder 📼

Stack

Go Cobra Bundler Go modules

GitHub topics

#ascii #cli #command-line #gif #recording #terminal

Updated: 2026-09-09
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2022-07-19
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 176 open

20,946

stars

Forks: 480
Commits: 760 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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faressoft/terminalizer

🦄 Record your terminal and generate animated gif images or share a web player

Stack

JavaScript Electron npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#animated #bash #bash-profile #capture #colors #command-line

Updated: 2024-08-29
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2018-07-22
History: 4 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 108 open

16,161

stars

Forks: 520
Commits: 222 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

Zulko/moviepy

Video editing with Python

Stack

Python pytest PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#animation #gif #hacktoberfest #python #video #video-editing

Updated: 2026-08-26
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2013-08-12
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 88 open

14,910

stars

Forks: 2,107
Commits: 1,532 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

libvips/libvips

A fast image processing library with low memory needs.

Stack

C Meson pip

GitHub topics

#c #cpp #gif #graphicsmagick #hdr #heic

Updated: 2026-10-15
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2007-08-29
History: 9 history points
License: LGPL-2.1
Issues: 83 open

11,735

stars

Forks: 802
Commits: 9,465 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +2 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

MathewSachin/Captura

Capture Screen, Audio, Cursor, Mouse Clicks and Keystrokes

Stack

C# .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#capture #chocolatey #dotnet #gif #keystrokes #record

Updated: 2026-05-25
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-12-04
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 116 open

10,855

stars

Forks: 1,973
Commits: 1,128 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

phw/peek

Simple animated GIF screen recorder with an easy to use interface

Archived

Stack

Vala Meson

GitHub topics

#apng #gif #gif-recorder #gnome #gtk3 #linux

Updated: 2025-09-24
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2015-12-16
History: 4 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 5 open

10,552

stars

Forks: 337
Commits: 1,439 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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sindresorhus/Gifski

🌈 Convert videos to high-quality GIFs on your Mac

Stack

Swift Cargo Swift Package Manager

GitHub topics

#app #convert-videos #converter #gif #gif-animation #gifski

Updated: 2026-09-11
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2018-02-01
History: 14 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 8 open

8,562

stars

Forks: 324
Commits: 442 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

imagemin/imagemin

Minify images seamlessly

Stack

JavaScript npm

GitHub topics

#buffer #gif #imagemin #jpg #minify #nodejs

Updated: 2025-03-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-11-04
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 81 open

5,718

stars

Forks: 260
Commits: 286 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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kane50613/takumi

Render OG images and paged PDFs from JSX, HTML, and CSS. No headless browser. Runs on Node.js, Cloudflare Workers, browsers, and Rust.

AI dev

Stack

Rust Next.js React Svelte SvelteKit Bun Cargo npm

GitHub topics

#cloudflare-workers #gif #html-to-image #html-to-pdf #image-generation #invoice

Updated: 2026-10-17
Lists: 0 list mentions
First commit: 2025-06-01
History: 105 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 14 open

3,117

stars

Forks: 81
Commits: 3,453 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +37 +1.2%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: +135 +4.1%

Website GitHub

lettier/gifcurry

😎 The open-source, Haskell-built video editor for GIF makers.

Stack

Haskell

GitHub topics

#animated-gifs #appimage #arch-linux #fedora #functional-programming #gif

Updated: 2021-08-13
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-01-13
History: 11 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 41 open

1,449

stars

Forks: 59
Commits: 28 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

onmyway133/GifCapture

🏇 Gif capture app for macOS

Stack

Swift CocoaPods

GitHub topics

#capture #gif #mac

Updated: 2021-04-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-03-01
History: 11 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 6 open

969

stars

Forks: 49
Commits: 85 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

matmen/ImageScript

zero-dependency JavaScript image manipulation

Stack

JavaScript npm

GitHub topics

#deno #gif #hacktoberfest #image #image-manipulation #image-processing

Updated: 2025-06-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-11-21
History: 1 history point
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 21 open

678

stars

Forks: 34
Commits: 338 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

lukechilds/gifgen

Simple high quality GIF encoding

Stack

Shell

GitHub topics

#encoding-gifs #ffmpeg #gif

Updated: 2023-01-22
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-07-03
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 2 open

565

stars

Forks: 29
Commits: 42 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

343dev/optimizt

CLI image optimization tool

Stack

JavaScript Vite npm

GitHub topics

#avif #gif #gif2webp #gifsicle #guetzli #image-compression

Updated: 2026-09-12
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-03-20
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

183

stars

Forks: 8
Commits: 647 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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hellovigoss/ChatGIF

search GIFs with AI

Stack

TypeScript Next.js React Tailwind CSS npm

GitHub topics

#assistant #awesome #chatgpt #funny #gif #gpt

Updated: 2023-04-19
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-04-12
History: 7 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 2 open

173

stars

Forks: 20
Commits: 27 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

TheAcharya/MarkerData

The avant-garde Marker extraction application crafted for Final Cut Pro

AI dev

Stack

Swift

GitHub topics

#airtable #colour-palette #csv #database #fcp #fcpx

Updated: 2026-09-15
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2023-01-12
History: 9 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

stars

Forks: 3
Commits: 1,030 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

vdel26/gifted

Turn any short video into an animated GIF quickly and easily.

Stack

Objective-C

GitHub topics

#gif #gifs #macos #objective-c

Updated: 2014-09-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-11-09
History: 9 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 0 open

stars

Forks: 1
Commits: 4 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

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