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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 commandSecurity notes

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Additional install commands

macOS

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brew install gifcap

local Homebrew formula metadata

overview

Package summary

Capture video from an Android device and make a gif

Commands and aliases

  • gifcap

history

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.

security posture

Risk level: blue

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

Risk classifier

blue risk · medium confidence · tool

Why

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

Signals

  • text:video

Install behavior

  • No Homebrew post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
  • Homebrew bottle metadata is available for 1 platform targets.
  • Installs with 1 runtime dependencies.

Recommended review

Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.

executables

Installed executables

CommandKindExposureNote
gifcapcliglobal executable

freshness

Version and freshness

These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.

page generated2026-07-08
manager version1.0.4
manager updated
local dataok
upstreamcurrent
latest detected1.0.4

https://github.com/outlook/gifcap

  • infoNo package-manager update timestamp was available.low confidence

install metadata

Package metadata

Package keybrew:gifcap
Version1.0.4
Package managerHomebrew
Package manager pagehttps://formulae.brew.sh/formula/gifcap
Homepagehttps://github.com/outlook/gifcap
Repositoryhttps://github.com/outlook/gifcap
Upstream docshttps://github.com/outlook/gifcap#readme
LicenseMIT
Source archivehttps://github.com/outlook/gifcap/archive/refs/tags/1.0.4.tar.gz
Dependenciesffmpeg
Bottleavailable (on all)
Homebrew post-installnot defined
Servicenone declared

registry facts

Source database details

Source DatabaseHomebrew formula API
Taphomebrew/core
Full Namegifcap
Version Scheme0
Revision0
Head VersionHEAD
Bottle Stable Root URLhttps://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecatedno
Disabledno
Keg Onlyno
URL Keys
  • head
  • stable

package graph

Links come from deterministic package relationships, av.db category and tag curation, ecosystem matches, and package hub membership.

Related tools

  • ffmpegRuntime dependency declared by Homebrew.

Same workflow

  • ttygifShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, gif, image, media, screen-capture.
  • gif2pngShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, gif, image, media.
  • gifsicleShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, gif, image, media.
  • gifskiShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, gif, image, media.
  • gimme-aws-credsShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, gif, image, media.
  • catimgShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, image, media.

source trail

Generated from repository data

This page is generated by av-web from the private package SQLite artifact built by scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.

Used sources

  • Geiger risk classifier
  • Nucleus package database
  • av.db category and tag curation
  • cross-ecosystem install command graph
  • curated package history
  • package relationship graph
  • package version freshness
  • package-page enrichment