Record your Mac screen as a GIF
Capture a region of your screen, trim it to the good part, and export a clean animated GIF — perfect for bug reports, pull requests, and docs. No watermark, no subscription.
Capture a region of your screen, trim it to the good part, and export a clean animated GIF — perfect for bug reports, pull requests, and docs. No watermark, no subscription.
GIFs autoplay everywhere — GitHub issues and pull requests, Slack, docs, and chat — without a player or a hosting service. macshot records to MP4 first, so you can also keep a full-quality video, then export a GIF of just the section that matters.
The same editor lets you do more than trim: speed up slow parts, add a zoom-in to highlight detail, freeze a frame, blur out anything sensitive, or drop in a line of text. Then export the finished clip as a GIF or MP4.
macshot is built with Swift and AppKit — a real Mac app, not a web wrapper. It's free and open source under GPLv3, with no watermark, subscription, or account.
Record a region of your screen with macshot, then open the recording in its built-in editor and export as GIF. You can trim to just the part you want before exporting.
Yes. macshot records to MP4, and the built-in video editor exports any recording — or a trimmed section — as an animated GIF.
No. macshot is free and open source with no watermark, subscription, or account.
Yes — macshot is a native app for both Apple Silicon and Intel Macs, and requires macOS 12.3 or later.