# How do you take gifs?

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**Category:** Arcade\
**Created:** [October 2, 2020, 5:39pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/how-do-you-take-gifs/3742 "2020-10-02T17:39:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![jwunderl](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.makecode.com/jwunderl/32/5308_2.png) [@jwunderl](https://forum.makecode.com/u/jwunderl)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2020, 10:22pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/how-do-you-take-gifs/3742/15 "2020-10-04T22:22:50Z")

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Here’s the programs I typically use to make screen recording gifs:

> [@Pizzas, Pirates & Ninjas](https://forum.makecode.com/t/pizzas-pirates-ninjas/327/7):
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> I use [gifox](https://gifox.io/) on my mac, as it was the easiest to use one I could find when I started needing to make gifs to respond to students on my class forum, but [screentogif](https://www.screentogif.com/) is what I’ve heard is good for windows. If I need to edit a gif (compress, shorten, etc) I just use [ezgif.com](http://ezgif.com), as it does a good job at most things and the compression algorithm (gifsicle) it implements is real nice / one I used on the command line before I found the site.

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