What freeware do you use to record the screen to animated GIF?

From	Marion <marion@facts.com>
Newsgroups	alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.comp.freeware, comp.editors
Subject	What freeware do you use to record the screen to animated GIF?
Date	2025-07-15 23:45 +0000
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I complained to Amazon Vine about a product that couldn't be ordered, and
their robots told me to send a screenshot to humans at a support address.
<https://amazon.com/vine/about> (click on the support links)

The robot only wanted a "screenshot" but to see the problem, it's better to
have an animated GIF. So I searched for the best way to take screenrecs,
but too many programs showed up as potential Windows screen recorders.
cutescreenrec
obsstudio
screentogif
licecap
sharex
apowerrec
camstudio
debut
dvdvideosoft
ezvid
flashback
gamedvr
gilisoft
goplay
icecream
ispring
screencastomatic
tinytake
wisdom
aviscreenclassic
bsr
captura
chrispc
em
fdr
freecam
hypercam
wink
vclip
uscreencapture
jing
streamobs
etc.

I ended up first trying "LICEcap" simply because it was the smallest
download, where it worked simply by starting the executable, pressing
record, and then choosing a location, where oddly, it started recording.

<https://www.cockos.com/licecap/>
<https://www.cockos.com/licecap/licecap132-install.exe>
Name: licecap132-install.exe
Size: 256960 bytes (250 KiB)
SHA256: B1E7EAF6B275BFB820BFFA790082B36DD4EAB1C06A54B3D508C7BAD304B1D518

Personally, I think it should be the other way around instead...
a. First select a location
b. Then press record

That's how the second program I tried worked, which was ScreenToGif,
which brought up a GUI afterward which allowed saving options.
<https://www.screentogif.com/>
<https://github.com/NickeManarin/ScreenToGif/releases/download/2.41.3/ScreenToGif.2.41.3.Setup.x64.msi>
Name: ScreenToGif.2.41.3.Setup.x64.msi
Size: 74326016 bytes (70 MiB)
SHA256: 846189DB3400C824C21F4C226A86B5DFFEB0500A1043BFD0D33471C704F995E5
C:\app\editor\screenrec\screentogif

Notice both did almost exactly the same thing but one is huge compared to
the other (even though they seemed to be very similar in use model).

But anyway, it worked for the purpose that I needed it to.
But I'm curious, what do you use to record the screen to animated GIF?

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What freeware do you use to record the screen to animated GIF? Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-07-15 23:45 +0000
  Re: What freeware do you use to record the screen to animated GIF? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-07-16 05:49 +0000
  Re: What freeware do you use to record the screen to animated GIF? Herbert Kleebauer <klee@unibwm.de> - 2025-07-16 08:13 +0200
    Re: What freeware do you use to record the screen to animated GIF? JJ <jj4public@outlook.com> - 2025-07-16 14:40 +0700
      Re: What freeware do you use to record the screen to animated GIF? Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2025-07-16 10:13 +0200
        Re: What freeware do you use to record the screen to animated GIF? candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2025-07-16 19:20 +0000
          Re: What freeware do you use to record the screen to animated GIF? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-07-17 02:01 +0000
            Re: What freeware do you use to record the screen to animated GIF? candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2025-07-17 07:00 +0000
    Re: What freeware do you use to record the screen to animated GIF? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-07-16 08:37 +0000
      Re: What freeware do you use to record the screen to animated GIF? Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2025-07-16 11:13 +0200
        Re: What freeware do you use to record the screen to animated GIF? gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2025-07-16 09:42 +0000
        Re: What freeware do you use to record the screen to animated GIF? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-07-16 19:44 +0200
          Re: What freeware do you use to record the screen to animated GIF? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-07-17 01:57 +0000
      Re: What freeware do you use to record the screen to animated GIF? Herbert Kleebauer <klee@unibwm.de> - 2025-07-16 12:35 +0200
        Re: What freeware do you use to record the screen to animated GIF? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-07-17 01:55 +0000
          Re: What freeware do you use to record the screen to animated GIF? Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-07-17 09:39 -0400
            Re: What free software do you use to record the screen to animated GIF? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-07-18 05:40 +0000
      Re: What freeware do you use to record the screen to animated GIF? Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-07-16 10:45 -0400
        Re: What freeware do you use to record the screen to animated GIF? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-07-17 01:56 +0000
    Re: What freeware do you use to record the screen to animated GIF? Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-07-16 19:38 +0000
      Re: What freeware do you use to record the screen to animated GIF? Herbert Kleebauer <klee@unibwm.de> - 2025-07-16 22:16 +0200
        Re: What freeware do you use to record the screen to animated GIF? Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-07-16 20:26 +0000

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