

PopKey also has an iPhone app, but I do not use it. For my iPhone, I currently use GIF Keyboard. This choice is not me taking side, against PopKey this is simply because when Apple allowed for third party keyboards, the first one that I found available was GIF Keyboard and, since it has worked so well, I found no need to change it. If a picture is worth a thousand words, with LICEcap I am able to produce content that can provide thousands of words every second. LICEcap provides you with a resizeable box to record a specific section of your screen and produce a GIF of the recording. While sending cat GIFs or clips from your favorite show are valid GIF use cases, being able to create and send GIFs from my computer has been extremely useful at work and home.Īmong other things, LICEcaps has allowed me to create better Github issues, provide clearer directions to users, and better illustrate my points in blog posts. While there are many reasons to use the iPhone's burst mode, my favorite has been to convert the group of photos into GIFs. With Apple's new live photos they introduced a sort of proprietary GIF, but, since not everyone has an iPhone, it is still useful to create GIFs to share. Converting burst mode photos to GIFs also allows you to have more control over what ends up in the GIF since you can pick which burst images to use.
Giphy vs popkey how to#
While it deals with a Window's phone, this article explains how to use Imagemagick to convert a group of photos into a GIF. Here is an example of a GIF I created after my visit Diagon Alley at Universal Studios:īurstio and Giffer are two apps that can assist in creating GIFs from photos directly on your phone. It helps users to send messages to their friends by sending GIFs through animated GIF keyboard provided in the app. It also looks like there is an app, Live GIF, that can convert Live Photos to GIFs as well.


I have not tried out any of these apps and therefore cannot comment either way on them Bonus - Product Hunt As of may 2016, this app is available for.
