ScreenToGif is an open source program that lets you to record a selected area of your screen, live feed from your webcam or live drawings from a sketchboard. Afterwards, you can edit and save the animation as a GIF or video. Also there"s the Webcam Recorder and the Board Recorder.
Features:
- Record your screen and save directly to a gif looped animation or a video.
- Pause and continue to record or start over by discard the recording.
- Move the window around to record what you want, it stays on top.
- You can add Text, Subtitles, Title Frames, Borders, Watermarks, Drawings, etc.
- Crop and Resize.
- Remove frames that you don"t want.
- Select a folder to save the file automatically or select one before encoding.
- Add the system cursor to your recording.
- Very small sized and portable executable.
What"s new in ScreenToGif 2.29:
- Performance improvements in capturing the screen.
- Added option to improve the performance of the region selection in the new recorder UI (enabled by default).
- Improved performance of the duplicate frame remover (thanks to @DarkOoze).
Bug fixes:
- Delete all previous/next frames: Now multiple frame selection is considered when deleting frames (thanks to @pawlos).
- DirectX capture: The cursor was not being correctly captured in non-primary monitors.
- DirectX capture: A crash message was not displaying its details when capturing in async mode.
- DirectX capture: Adjusted message when trying to capture in a screen rendered by another graphics adapter.
- DirectX capture: The legacy recorder was not able to capture using the option to just capture when something changes on screen.
- Screen/window selector: Reduced lag when displaying the screen/window selector for the new recorder UI.
- Remove duplicates: The last frame was not being compared, so it was not being removed when needed (thanks to @DarkOoze).
- Save as project too: Filename was getting ignored (saving as ".stg") and the export could fail depending on the configuration of the default preset.
- Export as images: Files were being overwritten without confirmation.
- Export as images: The notification of the encoder was not correctly displaying the encoding of multiple files.
- New recorder: The new sizing values input in the text boxes were not being saved when closing the window.
- Transparency: The transparency options and unchanged pixel detection were not working well together.
- Cache purge: Fixed the message not appearing correctly when closing the app.
- Yandex: Link to get token was not working.
ScreenToGif 2.29.1 fixes:
- When exporting as images, the warning message about existing files would not appear.
- DirectX capture: When the cursor was idle, it was not appearing in the recording.
- When exporting multiple times (near the same moment) with the same preset, the first encoding was using the filename of the second one.
Download: ScreenToGif 2.29.1 | Portable ScreenToGif | ~3.0 MB (Open Source)
View: ScreenToGif Home Page | User Guide