gifski – high-quality animated GIF encoder

gifski is a high-quality animated GIF encoder designed to produce smooth animations with good colour reproduction.

The software uses pngquant techniques to create efficient cross-frame palettes and applies temporal dithering. This allows individual frames to make effective use of the limited GIF colour palette while reducing the banding and other artefacts often associated with animated GIF files.

gifski can create animations from sequences of PNG images. It can also accept YUV4MPEG streams, which makes it straightforward to pipe decoded video from tools such as FFmpeg. Optional built-in video support is available when compiling with the appropriate FFmpeg components.

This is free and open source software.

Key Features

• Creates high-quality animated GIF files.
• Uses pngquant-based colour quantisation.
• Employs temporal dithering and cross-frame palettes.
• Accepts PNG image sequences as input.
• Accepts YUV4MPEG streams from software such as FFmpeg.
• Offers controls for width, height and overall quality.
• Provides separate lossy-quality and motion-quality controls.
• Can be built as a library for integration into other applications.
• Optional direct video decoding support using FFmpeg.

Website: github.com/ImageOptim/gifski
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Developer: Kornel
License: GNU Affero General Public License v3.0

gifski is written in Rust. Learn Rust with our recommended free books and free tutorials.

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