Looking for a Gyazo alternative for capturing GIFs of your screen? How about ShareX?

General
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Gyazo recently changed their GIF capture so that their logo shows up at the end of every GIF unless you pay for a subscription.

I’m looking for a screen capture tool that can make MP4s or GIFs of about 7 seconds at 30+ fps.

I’ve heard good things about ShareX, but I’ve had trouble getting the file size down to something reasonable. For example, Gyazo let me save a 7-second GIF at around 5 MB, but with ShareX, it’s always over 100 MB, even after tweaking the video encoding settings and switching to x265.

Does anyone know of a good alternative?

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you’re doing something wrong, just tested 1080p gif with sharex and it’s 8MB for 11s

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What encoding settings are you using?

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i use encoding settings in imgur…

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I tried those settings, but my file sizes are still too big. Not sure what’s going wrong.

For now, I’ve decided to use ClipClip; it seems like a good alternative. Thanks for sending the encoding settings, though.

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I can confirm that. I recorded 12 seconds of switching between windows, highlighting text, and opening an image, and the file is just 2.17 MB. Something’s definitely off.

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You should probably have stopped using Gyazo years ago, for multiple reason.

That’s neither here nor there though. Yes, ShareX is the shit, you should definitely switch to it.

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ShareX just works It doesnt kill your performance or do any weird AI stuff

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You might want to try ScreenToGif or Kap—they’re both free, open-source, and let you customize things. If you prefer sticking with ShareX, make sure you’re using a good codec like H.264 or H.265 (x265). You can also reduce the bitrate and resolution, lower the FPS if you don’t need super smooth animation, or export the GIF as a WebM or MP4.