Click2GIF Catcher

Captures 1 sec before and after a click as a GIF with highlighted clicks. Perfect for bug reports, tutorials, and UI demos.

Click2GIF Catcher — Capture Clicks as GIFs Instantly 🎯 Record any click on any webpage as a crisp, shareable GIF. Click2GIF automatically captures 1 second before and 1 second after every click you make, then stitches all your clicks into a single polished GIF file — downloaded instantly to your computer. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✨ KEY FEATURES • One-Click Recording — Hit "Start Capture" and browse normally. Every click you make is automatically captured. • Smart Time Window — Captures 1 second BEFORE and 1 second AFTER each click, so you always get the full context of what happened. • Visual Click Indicators — A red ripple effect highlights exactly where you clicked, making your GIFs crystal clear. • Cursor Tracking — A live cursor indicator follows your mouse while recording, so viewers always know where you're pointing. • Combined GIF Export — All your clicks during a session are stitched into one clean GIF file. No editing needed. • Instant Download — When you stop recording, your GIF is automatically saved to your downloads folder. No cloud uploads, no accounts. • Lightweight & Private — Everything runs locally in your browser. No data ever leaves your machine. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎯 PERFECT FOR • Bug Reports — Show developers exactly what happened with a single GIF. No more "it broke" without context. • Tutorials & How-Tos — Create step-by-step visual guides by clicking through a workflow. • UI/UX Reviews — Record interaction patterns and share them with your team. • QA Testing — Document test steps with visual evidence of each click. • Customer Support — Show users exactly where to click with visual walkthroughs. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔒 PRIVACY FIRST Click2GIF processes everything locally on your device. Your screen captures never leave your browser — no servers, no cloud storage, no tracking. The extension only activates when YOU press "Start Capture." ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📋 HOW IT WORKS 1. Click the Click2GIF icon in your toolbar 2. Press "Start Capture" 3. Browse and click on the page as usual 4. Press "Stop Capture" when you're done 5. Your GIF downloads automatically! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🛠️ PERMISSIONS EXPLAINED • activeTab & tabs — To capture the content of your current tab • tabCapture — To record the tab's visual output as video frames • scripting — To inject the click detection and visual effects • storage — To remember capture state across popup opens • offscreen — To process video frames in the background • downloads — To save the finished GIF to your downloads folder ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Need help or have suggestions? Open an issue on our GitHub repository!