# Install gifski with Homebrew, apk, MacPorts, Nix, pacman, scoop, winget

Highest-quality GIF encoder based on pngquant. Version 1.34.0 via Homebrew; verified 2026-08-02. Also installable with nix: nix profile install nixpkgs#gifski.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:gifski
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install gifski
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

- MacPorts (94%):

```sh
sudo port install gifski
```

  Evidence: MacPorts ports tree: graphics/gifski/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1

### Linux

- apk (92%):

```sh
sudo apk add gifski
```

  Evidence: Alpine Linux edge package indexes: gifski from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#gifski
```

  Evidence: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/gi/gifski/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

- pacman (92%):

```sh
sudo pacman -S gifski
```

  Evidence: Arch Linux sync databases: gifski from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz

### Windows

- Scoop (92%):

```sh
scoop install main/gifski
```

  Evidence: Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/gifski.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Main/git/trees/master?recursive=1

- winget (92%):

```sh
winget install --id ImageOptim.gifski -e
```

  Evidence: Windows Package Manager source index: ImageOptim.gifski from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:gifski
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 1.34.0
- **Source summary:** Highest-quality GIF encoder based on pngquant
- **Homepage:** <https://gif.ski/>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/ImageOptim/gifski>
- **Last updated:** 2026-08-02T20:52:05+09:00
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- gifski (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 1.34.0
## Project history and usage

gifski is a Rust GIF encoder from the ImageOptim/pngquant ecosystem, designed to produce high-quality animated GIFs from video frames or PNG sequences.

### Project history

The official repository presents gifski as a GIF encoder based on pngquant and libimagequant ideas, using cross-frame palettes and temporal dithering to work around GIF format limits. The project provides a CLI and can also be built as a C-compatible library for integration into other applications.

### Adoption history

gifski attracted users who cared more about perceptual quality than minimum file size. Its upstream documentation points to prebuilt releases, Homebrew, cargo installation, C library use, Windows and macOS GUI paths, and release downloads for Linux, macOS, and Windows.

### How it is used

Practitioners feed gifski either a stream from ffmpeg in YUV4MPEG format or a directory of PNG frames exported from animation or video software. They tune output size and quality with width, height, frame rate, quality, lossy quality, and motion quality options.

### Why package nerds care

gifski is notable in package collections because it represents the modern Rust side of GIF tooling: a CLI, reusable C-compatible library, cargo package, Homebrew formula, and GUI-adjacent encoder with explicit tradeoffs around GIF quality, file size, and licensing.

### Timeline

- 2017: Repository-era gifski releases began in the ImageOptim ecosystem.
- 2018: Transparency support and GUI-adjacent packaging paths broadened usage.
- 2020s: Homebrew, cargo, native installers, and library builds widened distribution paths.
- 2020s: Upstream documentation continued to emphasize ffmpeg and PNG-frame workflows.

### Related projects

- gifski is closely related to pngquant and libimagequant. It also complements ffmpeg for frame extraction and Gifsicle for downstream GIF manipulation or optimization.

### Sources

- <https://gif.ski/>
- <https://github.com/ImageOptim/gifski>
- <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ImageOptim/gifski/main/README.md>
- source_facts.repo


## Security Notes

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger risk:** green / low
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

## Other Package-Manager Records

- Nix - gifski: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/gi/gifski/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- apk - gifski - 1.34.0-r3: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: gifski from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Highest-quality GIF encoder based on pngquant | https://gif.ski/
- pacman - gifski - 1.34.0-2: normalized package name match | Arch Linux sync databases: gifski from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz | GIF encoder based on libimagequant (pngquant). Squeezes maximum possible quality from the awful GIF format. | https://gif.ski
- MacPorts - gifski: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: graphics/gifski/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- Scoop - main/gifski: normalized package name match | Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/gifski.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Main/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- winget - ImageOptim.gifski: normalized package name match | Windows Package Manager source index: ImageOptim.gifski from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix


## Combined YAML source

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


## Sources

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