What's new in Gifski 2.23.0
Aug 23, 2023
- The app now requires macOS 13.
New in Gifski 2.22.3 (May 8, 2023)
New in Gifski 2.22.2 (Feb 22, 2023)
New in Gifski 2.22.1 (Feb 12, 2023)
New in Gifski 2.22.0 (Feb 1, 2023)
- The app now requires macOS 12. You can get the last macOS 11 compatible version from the app's website.
- Improved quality and performance.
New in Gifski 2.21.2 (Aug 23, 2022)
New in Gifski 2.21.1 (Aug 9, 2022)
New in Gifski 2.21.0 (May 31, 2022)
- Gifski now requires macOS 11. See the Gifski website for the last macOS 10.15 compatible version.
- The conversion completed notification now plays a sound. You can turn this off in “System Preferences › Notifications & Focus › Gifski”.
New in Gifski 2.20.2 (Feb 1, 2022)
- The FPS setting is now persisted.
New in Gifski 2.20.1 (Jan 20, 2022)
- Fixed a rendering issue with videos having transparency.
New in Gifski 2.20.0 (Jan 12, 2022)
- Improved GIF quality in some cases where the quality setting is set to a low value.
New in Gifski 2.19.4 (Jan 3, 2022)
New in Gifski 2.19.3 (Oct 31, 2021)
- Worked around a macOS 12 bug that could in some cases cause GIfski to crash.
New in Gifski 2.19.2 (Oct 29, 2021)
- Tried to work around a macOS 12 bug that could in some cases cause GIfski to crash.
New in Gifski 2.19.1 (Oct 29, 2021)
- Fixed an issue where Gifski would not preserve the rotation of a video.
New in Gifski 2.19.0 (Oct 25, 2021)
- Improved compatibility with macOS Monterey.
New in Gifski 2.18.0 (Oct 6, 2021)
- The final GIF duration is now shown in the editor.
- The conversion completed screen now has a button to quickly start another conversion.
New in Gifski 2.17.2 (Sep 19, 2021)
New in Gifski 2.17.1 (Sep 19, 2021)
New in Gifski 2.17.0 (Sep 12, 2021)
- Gifski now requires macOS 10.15 and later. You can get the last macOS 10.14 compatible version from the Gifski website at any time.
- Added the ability to adjust the speed of the GIF.
New in Gifski 2.16.1 (Jun 11, 2021)
New in Gifski 2.16.0 (Apr 25, 2021)
- Added the ability to create a bounced GIF. Also known as yo-yo or back-and-forth GIF.
New in Gifski 2.15.0 (Mar 15, 2021)
- Gifski now runs natively on Apple silicon.
New in Gifski 2.14.0 (Feb 10, 2021)
- Improved GIF compression. GIFs should now be smaller without any noticeable loss of quality.
New in Gifski 2.13.1 (Feb 7, 2021)
- Fixed a regression in the previous version where in some rare cases the GIF would end up with some green artifacts.
New in Gifski 2.13.0 (Jan 26, 2021)
- Improved performance in some cases.
New in Gifski 2.12.0 (Dec 30, 2020)
- Added the ability to choose how many times to loop the GIF. Previously, you could only either loop forever or not loop.
New in Gifski 2.11.0 (Nov 10, 2020)
- Improved compatibility with the upcoming macOS version.
New in Gifski 2.10.0 (Oct 26, 2020)
- Much more accurate file size estimates!
- After converting, you can now press Command+C to copy the GIF or Command+S to save it.
- Reduced the max FPS from 60 to 50 since browsers throttle frame rates above 50, playing them at 10 FPS.
- Worked around a macOS bug where the conversion would fail with a “decode failed” error.
New in Gifski 2.9.1 (Oct 13, 2020)
- Worked around a bug in macOS where certain videos would cause a "Decode Failure" error.
New in Gifski 2.9.0 (Jul 27, 2020)
- Further improvements to error messages for unsupported videos.
New in Gifski 2.8.0 (Jun 30, 2020)
- Improved error message for unsupported videos.
New in Gifski 2.7.2 (Jun 24, 2020)
- Added warning when copying a GIF for the first time that Chrome is not able to handle pasting an animated GIF.
New in Gifski 2.7.1 (Apr 16, 2020)
- Fixed a crash that could sometimes happen when canceling the conversion.
- Fixed handling of videos with blank frames at the start.
- Fixed looping the playback in the editor when the video is trimmed from the start.
New in Gifski 2.7.0 (Mar 10, 2020)
- Loop the video playback in the editor when the “Loop Forever” checkbox is checked.
- Disable audio when playing the video in the editor.
New in Gifski 2.6.3 (Feb 6, 2020)
- Fixed an issue with trimming from the start of the video.
New in Gifski 2.6.2 (Feb 4, 2020)
- Fixed an issue where the GIF would not play right away.
New in Gifski 2.6.0 (Jan 31, 2020)
- Support 60 FPS GIFs.
- Bug fixes.
New in Gifski 2.5.0 (Dec 23, 2019)
- Gifski now requires macOS 10.14 or later.
- Added the ability to go back to the edit screen during and after the conversion.
New in Gifski 2.4.0 (Dec 6, 2019)
- Added an “Open” button to the initial view as an alternative to drag and drop. (macOS 10.15 only)
- Fixed an issue that caused the conversion to fail with a "frame failed" error in some rare cases.
- Fixed a crash that could happen when the conversion was canceled.
New in Gifski 2.3.0 (Nov 12, 2019)
- Gifski now comes with a share extension that lets you share a video directly from any app that has a “Share” button/menu.
- Re-enabled gifsicle support (improved compression).
New in Gifski 2.2.1 (Nov 11, 2019)
- Fixed GIFs not correctly looping when the quality was less than 100%. (gifsicle support, meaning improved compression, is temporarily disabled until we can properly fix this)
New in Gifski 2.2.0 (Nov 4, 2019)
- Gifski is now much better at reducing the GIF size when you use the “Quality” slider.
- You can now disable looping of the GIF.
New in Gifski 2.1.1 (Oct 14, 2019)
- Improved compatibility with macOS Catalina.
New in Gifski 2.1.0 (Oct 8, 2019)
- Added confirmation dialog before quitting if there's an active conversion.
New in Gifski 2.0.1 (Aug 19, 2019)
- Properly overwrite an existing file in "Save As…".
- Prevent the user from accidentally trimming the video to zero duration.
- Fixed some crashes.
New in Gifski 2.0.0 (Aug 7, 2019)
- You are no longer asked where to save the GIF right away. Gifski will now convert the video and then let you choose what to do with it. In addition to the usual share and drag & drop options, we've added copy and save.
- You can trim the video right from within Gifski.
- You can set exact dimensions as width/height or percentage.
- After the conversion is completed, you can press Space to Quick Look the GIF.
- Gifski shows a notification when the conversion is completed.
- Gifski includes a system service that lets you quickly convert a video to GIF from the “Services” menu in any app that provides a compatible video file.
- User-interface improvements.
New in Gifski 1.8.0 (May 7, 2019)
- Make the error messages shown for invalid files more user-friendly.
- Work around incorrect dimensions for recordings of the iOS Simulator recorded with `simctl`.
New in Gifski 1.7.0 (Apr 12, 2019)
- Improved error message when a user selects an audio-only file.
New in Gifski 1.6.0 (Apr 10, 2019)
- Minor user interface improvements.
- Better error message when passing in a video using the QuickTime Animation format.
New in Gifski 1.5.1 (Mar 31, 2019)
- Prevent the user from accidentally saving the GIF without an extension.
New in Gifski 1.5.0 (Mar 26, 2019)
- Cancel the conversion by either clicking on the progress circle or pressing the Escape key.
- There's a brand new conversion completed screen where you can:
- Drag and drop the GIF somewhere (drag the thumbnail).
- Show the file in Finder.
- Share the GIF using a system share service.
- See the file size.
- Shows the estimated time remaining during conversion.
- Fixed some crashes.
New in Gifski 1.4.1 (Jan 4, 2019)
New in Gifski 1.4.0 (Sep 20, 2018)
New in Gifski 1.3.2 (Jul 16, 2018)
- Fixes the app crashing on startup in some cases.
New in Gifski 1.3.1 (Jul 15, 2018)
- User-interface tweaks and bug fixes.
New in Gifski 1.2.1 (Jun 15, 2018)
- Gifski is no longer mistakenly chosen as the default app for opening MP4 files.
New in Gifski 1.2.0 (Mar 14, 2018)
- Bug fixes
- UI improvements
New in Gifski 1.1.0 (Feb 27, 2018)
- Significantly improved performance.
- Added a frame rate option.
- The conversion progress is now displayed in the Dock icon.
- The conversion progress is now reported to the system, resulting in Finder showing a progress bar for the generated GIF during progress.