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 version 2.9:
- New color quantization algorithm for the encoder 2.0.
- An installer is available.
- Options to automatically adjust the window based on the frame size and to automatically adjust the image zoom based on the window size (after loading a project).
- New translation: Dutch.
- Updated the German, Italian, Portuguese (Brazilian), Simplified Chinese, and Russian translations.
- A message appears before deleting frames or discarding the project. It"s optional, you can disable this later.
- The updater detects which type of update it should download (portable or installer).
Bug fixes:
- The Insert window was not taking into account the DPI of the image being inserted.
- A bug related to the crop feature under a high DPI environment.
- The recorder window could stay out of view if it was previously used on a monitor that got disconnected.
- After unplugging a monitor, the recorder window was not adjusting its position.
- The "Go to frame" feature was not displaying the correct frame.
- After deleting frames, the project info was not being saved into the file (project.json). This was causing some false warnings while trying to load the project later via "Recent Projects".
- Added the missing "New Board Recording" context menu entry on the editor window.
- Several bugs with the new recorder that happened when using screens to the left or above the primary screen.
- The recorder feature called "snap to window" wasn"t working with windows on screens to the left or above the primary screen.
Download: ScreenToGif 2.9 | Portable ScreenToGif | ~2.0 MB (Open Source)
View: ScreenToGif Home Page | User Guide