Screen To GIF

Use Screen To GIF recorder for any tab, window or desktop region. Online GIF capture with trim, crop, MP4 & WebM export.

🧩 Screen To GIF for Chrome is a lightweight GIF screen recorder that turns any tab, window, or region into a shareable animation, or an MP4/WebM clip, in seconds. Pick what to capture, frame it, and press record. Trim, crop, and change the speed in the built-in editor before you save. No installer, no account needed, no watermark. What you can do with it 1. Record GIF clips of a single Chrome tab, including animations, mouse-over effects, and scrolling. 2. Capture any open application window. 3. Select any region of your desktop: a notification, terminal, or design tool. 4. Pause partway, get the next interaction ready, and resume on the same clip. 5. Preview your Screen To GIF capture right inside the selection box before you save it. 6. Start a capture on a countdown of up to 10 seconds, so you have time to get everything ready. How Screen To GIF capture works ➤ Click the toolbar icon to place the Screen To GIF capture rectangle on the page. ➤ Set the frame rate: lower for a small file, higher for a smooth demo. ➤ Press record, perform the action, then stop. ➤ Save the clip as it is, or polish it in the editor first. Polish the recording in the editor • Trim the start and end with frame accuracy. • Crop to any part of the frame. • Speed the clip up to 4x or slow it to a tenth. Why people pick the Screen To GIF recorder ▸ Choose output resolution and bitrate at save time, with a live estimate of the file size. ▸ GIF recording, encoding, and export all happen on your own computer. No data is sent anywhere. ▸ Export as GIF, MP4, or WebM, saved straight to your Chrome downloads folder with no upload step. ▸ Long takes are fully supported: up to 24 hours, written to disk as it goes. ▸ Keyboard shortcuts you can reassign for opening the screen to GIF app, recording, pausing, and stopping. 🌐 If you have been looking for a GIF recorder that runs in the browser, you are in the right place. Set up Screen To GIF online, and the same GIF screen capture workflow is one click away on whatever machine you are using. 🐧 Screen To GIF works on Linux wherever Chrome does, with nothing to compile or install. ChromeOS works too, since it is just Chrome. Who uses Screen To GIF for Chrome 🎯 Engineers who attach steps for reproducing a bug to a Jira ticket or a GitHub Issue. 🎯 QA engineers who need to show the bug instead of describing it. 🎯 Designers sharing micro-interactions and prototype flows in Figma comments — a frequent screen2gif use-case. 🎯 Educators recording GIF tutorials for students or social media. Limitations 1️⃣ A single take runs up to 24 hours. 2️⃣ Chrome blocks extensions from its own pages, so chrome:// pages and the Web Store cannot host the screen2gif extension. 3️⃣ Captures run at up to 30 frames per second. Privacy - The extension does not collect any data about what you capture. - Your clip stays in Chrome's private storage on your own computer until you save it or delete it. FAQs ❓ Is this extension related to the ScreenToGif desktop app? 💬 No. This is an independent Chrome extension and is not affiliated with that Windows app. It runs in your browser on any system Chrome supports. ❓ Is Screen To GIF Mac-compatible? 💬 Yes. On a Mac, you get the same flow inside Chrome: select a region, capture it, then export. There is nothing to install beyond the extension. ❓ Does it work without a network connection? 💬 Yes. Capture and encoding are local — the whole screen2gif workflow runs in your browser. You only need a network if the page you capture needs one. ❓ Can I capture GIF of screen with system audio or my microphone? 💬 No, not in this version. Recordings are silent, which is what most documentation and bug reports need. ❓ Is it a screen recorder too? 💬 Yes. Beyond recording GIFs, it works as an in-browser screen recorder: capture a tab, window, or region and export it as MP4 or WebM video. ❓ Can I edit a clip before saving it? 💬 Yes. Open a recording in the editor to trim the clip, crop the frame, or change its speed. Edits apply at export, so your original is never changed. ❓ How do I make the file smaller? 💬 Lower the frame rate before you start, or pick a smaller output size when you save. The save dialog shows the estimated file size first. ❓ Is there a dark mode? 💬 Yes. Choose a light, dark, or system theme in settings, and the interface follows your pick or your operating system automatically. 🚀 Install Screen To GIF for Chrome and pin it to your toolbar. The next time someone asks you to reproduce a bug or show a quick demo, you can send a clean, looping clip in about a minute.