


LICEcap doesn’t have a bunch of options and settings. Turns out, convenience trumps feature lists. Being able to quickly do the screen capture and have the GIF ready for sharing in the instant you stop the recording is really convenient. In fact, I used it to screen capture how LICEcap works.īut the reason I’m always reaching for LICEcap when I need those moving pixels captured is that it records directly to the file. It does a lot more than LICEcap, and is even written in the world-eating JavaScript programming language. An obvious mention is Kap by these wonderful people. There are loads of cool screen capture to GIF tools out there. I know you should think twice before putting animated GIFs on your webpage (because they tend to be huge), but I sometimes make that sin too. It can be to document some bug I found, show my colleagues at Sanity.io something cool, a clever tweet, or useful visual context when I’m helping other people out some project. Not a day goes by without me having to record something I do on the screen. You know, like reliable keyboards and SD-card slots.īut this post isn’t about how Apple has lost its edge with its new perfect circular new campus, but about one of my favorite little apps, the GIF screen capture tool LICEcap. Only to discover that the brilliant engineers of Palo Alto had decided that 32-bit apps weren’t in vogue anymore.
Capture animated screenshot licecap upgrade#
After having nervously lingered in front of the unmoving progress bar of impending doom for two hours while the upgrade script made sure that all of my millions of node_modules files had the correct sandboxed permissions, I was finally let into my tool of digital self-expression again. really wanted me to upgrade to macOS Catalina, so I did.
