Record any action on your screen into an animated GIF: Licecap
LICEcap is a downloadable free software for Mac & PC and Linux (work with Wine) which can capture an area of your screen and save it directly to an animated .GIF or .LCF file.
Key features:
- - Record computer screen or portion of it directly to .GIF or .LCF
- - Move the screen capture frame while recording
- - Pause and restart recording, with optional inserted text messages.
- - Global hotkey (shift+space) to toggle pausing while recording
- - Basic title frame, with or without text
- - Record mouse button presses
- - Display elapsed time in the recording
- Adjustable maximum recording framerate
The tool is very simple, lighweight and easy to use.
View a demo (output is here).
"In addition to .GIF, LICEcap supports its own native lossless .LCF file format, which allows for higher compression ratios than .GIF, higher quality (more than 256 colors per frame), and more accurate timestamping. If you record to .LCF, you can play back the .LCF files within REAPER (and/or use it to convert to .gif or another video format)."
Open-source.
LICEcap is GPL-licensed, 100% free software.
My comment: Excellent and simple to use tool to record computer screen and have it as a publishable / shareable mini-video file (animated .GIF).
More info: https://www.cockos.com/licecap/
Download it now:
LICEcap v1.28 for Windows (12/2/17) (230KB installer)
LICEcap v1.28 for OSX (12/2/17) (730KB DMG)