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Giffiti vs GIPHY Capture

GIPHY Capture is a free, simple screen recorder that shares to GIPHY. Giffiti is a free GIF studio that keeps everything on your Mac and goes much further on editing and formats.

Download for MacFree · macOS 15 or later · Apple silicon

At a glance

Giffiti and GIPHY Capture side by side
GiffitiGIPHY Capture
Main jobMaking and editing GIFs from videos, recordings and picturesRecording short GIFs from your screen
Recording lengthYou decide, with an optional automatic stopUp to 30 seconds
EditingMulti-track timeline, keyframes, 11 transitions, 29 effects, masksLoop type, frame rate and speed
Captions41 fonts, stroke, shadow, box, animated textAnimated captions
ExportGIF, MP4, HEVC, HEVC with alpha, APNG, PNG sequence, WebP where supportedGIF, or HD MP4
SharingSaved to your Mac; copy or drag into any appUpload to GIPHY, email, or post to Facebook, Twitter and Messenger
Mac supportApple silicon, macOS 15 or latermacOS 10.13 or later, with native Apple silicon support
PriceFreeFree

Choose Giffiti if

  • You want your clips and GIFs to stay on your Mac, with no account.
  • You need longer recordings, layers, transitions, effects or more export formats.
  • You want to make GIFs from existing videos and pictures, not only screen recordings.

Choose GIPHY Capture if

  • You want the fastest click-to-start, click-to-stop recorder and you post to GIPHY.
  • You use an older version of macOS.

GIPHY Capture and Giffiti are both free, but they’re built around different ideas.

GIPHY Capture: record and share

GIPHY Capture is about as simple as recording gets: click to start, click to stop. Recordings run up to 30 seconds. You can choose the loop type and frame rate, add animated captions, and see the file size before saving. Then save it, or share it to GIPHY, email or social networks.

Giffiti: make it, keep it

Giffiti records your screen or camera as well, and also starts from videos, pictures and existing GIFs. Everything happens in an editor with a timeline, captions with 41 fonts, effects, transitions and more export formats. There’s no account, and your work stays on your Mac.

The short version

For a quick screen GIF headed for GIPHY, GIPHY Capture is hard to beat for speed. For anything you want to edit, caption or keep private, choose Giffiti.

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Questions

Do I need a GIPHY account for Giffiti?

No. Giffiti has no account of any kind. Your GIFs are saved wherever you choose on your Mac.

How do I get a GIF from Giffiti onto GIPHY?

Export your GIF, then upload it to GIPHY or anywhere else yourself.

Screen recording to GIF

Record part of your screen, a window, a whole display or your camera. When you stop, the recording opens as a project, ready to trim, caption and export.

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Captions and text

Put classic meme captions on any clip in one click, or style and animate your text with typewriter, word-by-word, pop, slide and per-letter effects.

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Formats and presets

Open a GIF or a video and export the format each place prefers. Presets give you a starting point for Slack, Discord, iMessage, GitHub READMEs, X and video.

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Try Giffiti on your Mac

Free for Apple silicon Macs running macOS 15 or later.

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