Drop a cap on that GIF. Made by Alain.
one person, one Windows desktop app, one hard size cap. no team, no cloud, no committee.
Who
Alain. Founder of Gamut Creative. Builds dev tools that do one thing without asking permission. Runs gifcap solo — writes the Python, ships the installers, owns the brand voice, answers the support email. The whole company is one person with opinions about palettes.
Why gifcap exists
Because the GIF-tool gap on Windows was a real thing. Mac folks got Sindre Sorhus's gifski.app. Windows folks got ScreenToGif (fine, but WPF-heavy and UI-dated), ShareX (a screenshot utility that happens to do GIFs), LICEcap (frozen in 2012), or ezgif.com (200 MB upload cap, ads, a server round-trip). None of them are what a GIF tool should be in 2026.
The engine choice was obvious: ffmpeg for decode and scale, gifski for encode. Per-frame palettes beat single-global-palette every time on color-rich content, which is what screen recordings and UI demos actually are. The UI piece was the work — drag-drop, binary-search size cap, scene detection, local gallery. Everything runs on your machine. Nothing uploads anywhere.
The pricing stance falls out of the same principle: one-time payment, no subscription, no feature paywall on the stuff that actually matters. Free covers the core loop (drag-drop video to GIF under a hard size cap). Pro is $29 once for scene detection and the gallery. That's the whole business model. No dark patterns, no trial timers, no "upgrade to remove watermark" because there is no watermark.
How to reach him
Email alain@gamutcreative.tv. Code, issues, and installer releases at @gamutcreative. Reply to any update mail — it lands in the same inbox.