# Install gifcap with Homebrew

Capture video from an Android device and make a gif. Version 1.0.4 via Homebrew; verified from local package data.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:gifcap
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install gifcap
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:gifcap
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 1.0.4
- **Source summary:** Capture video from an Android device and make a gif
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/outlook/gifcap>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/outlook/gifcap>
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- gifcap (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 1.0.4
## Project history and usage

gifcap is a small command-line screen-capture utility for turning recordings from a connected Android device into GIF files.

### Project history

The project appeared as an Outlook/Microsoft shell script repository in December 2016. Its README describes a focused workflow: use Android's device recording path together with common Unix video tools to create shareable GIFs from app behavior.

### Adoption history

Its adoption footprint is narrow but practical. Homebrew packaged it for macOS users, while the upstream README also documents copying the script onto a PATH on other Unix-like systems with adb, ffmpeg, and ffprobe installed.

### How it is used

Practitioners use gifcap when debugging Android interactions, demonstrating animation polish, or sharing visual defects in chat and issue trackers. The command records a physical Android device until interrupted and writes the resulting GIF to the requested filename.

### Why package nerds care

gifcap is package-manager-interesting because it wraps a common Android development chore in one executable and depends on tools many developers already install: adb, ffmpeg, and a shell.

### Timeline

- 2016: GitHub repository created.
- 2017: Tagged 1.0.x releases established the Homebrew-packaged script line.

### Related projects

- gifcap sits near ffmpeg-based screen-recording wrappers and Android SDK tooling rather than general-purpose GIF editors.

### Sources

- <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/gifcap>
- <https://github.com/outlook/gifcap>
- <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/outlook/gifcap/master/README.md>


## Security Notes

broad file, network, media, or database tool signal.

- **Geiger risk:** blue / medium
- broad file, network, media, or database tool signal


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/gifcap.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/gifcap.yml)


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- cross-ecosystem install command graph