Highest-quality GIF encoder based on pngquant.

gifski converts video frames to GIF animations using pngquant's fancy features for efficient cross-frame palettes and temporal dithering. It produces animated GIFs that use thousands of colors per frame.

It's a CLI tool, but it can also be compiled as library for seamelss use in other apps (note that for closed-source apps you need a commercial pngquant licence).

Download and install

See releases page for executables.

sh cargo install gifski

Usage

I haven't finished implementing proper video import yet, so for now you need ffmpeg to convert video to PNG frames first:

sh ffmpeg -i video.mp4 frame%04d.png

and then make the GIF from the frames:

sh gifski -o file.gif frame*.png

See gifski -h for more options.