Gif Recorder Portable

Made as the portable counterpart of Gif Recorder, this software program gives you the possibility to easily record your desktop's activity and generate GIF animations. For example, you can use it to create a tutorial and upload it on YouTube.

No setup necessary, besides .NET Framework

As long as you have .NET Framework installed on your PC, you don't need to set up anything else. You can click the executable to immediately launch Gif Recorder, as well as copy the app to a USB flash drive to seamlessly run it on any computer. It doesn't change Windows registry settings.

Record and save GIF animations

At startup, you are greeted by a semi-transparent window that contains an area for capturing desktop movement, and it stays on top of other applications by default.
Before beginning to record, you can specify the animation quality and frames per second. Once you're satisfied with the captured footage, you can save it to GIF format by indicating the output directory and file name.

Make animation adjustments and insert subtitles

It's possible to open the animation in a browser or the program's editor to preview the footage and decide whether you want to keep it or not. Gif Recorder lists the time and delay for each frame and lets you adjust the delay times, insert a new image between any two frames, remove or re-arrange frames, as well as add subtitles.
Further image adjustments can be made in your default graphic editor. Aside from GIF format, you can save the animation as an AVI video, resize animated GIFs, or import and export subtitles.

Evaluation and conclusion

The tool didn't put a strain on the overall performance of the PC in our tests, thanks to the fact that it needed low CPU and memory to work properly. No error dialogs popped up, and it didn't hang or crash.
To sum it up, Gif Recorder brings to the table intuitive and useful features for easily recording desktop activity to create GIF animations, and it doesn't require previous experience to work with.