Useful…But not so much

This app is a “replacement” for GIFGrabber. One day, suddenly and without warning, my GIFGrabber app was gone from my iMac. I searched and searched but it was no longer there. When I finally gave up on trying to figure out what happened to it, I went to reinstall GIFGrabber which I used very often, and I found this GIPHY CAPTURE was its replacement and GIFGrabber was no longer available…So I tried GIPHY CAPTURE. In some respects it’s quite similar to GIFGrabber…but it’s just plain not as good. For one thing, when you decide to save a GIF that you’ve made with this GIPHY CAPTURE, while it does give you three size options like GIFGrabber did, now it does NOT tell you the file size (e.g. 2MB) of each option. That’s a significant and annoying inconvenience IMO even thoough I can find out the size after the fact (when its already saved) using other software. IF it isn’t a size I need or prefer for my purposes I have to remake the gif, with still more guesswork. Another shortfall of this newer version is that the frame-sizer that’s used to set the outer perimeter of the GIF you’re creating has certain inexplicable dexterity limitations and so frequently, I’m unable to accurately frame the GIF and I have to resort to cropping it using other software after it’s made and saved to my computer. I suppose even with these significant limitations, I’m going to rely on GIPHY CAPTURE for the meanwhile. But, it baffles me that a replacement that isn’t optional because it steathly deletes the existing software, would be an inferior product that can’t possibly measure up to the original product. Someone wasn’t using their head for anything more than a hatrack in this enterprise. I guess I’ll just hope that one of these days, GIPHY CAPTURE will disappear from my computer the way GIFGrabber did and a new…shiny, sparkly…new version will be available that will just be the good, old GIFGrabber…again.

avrumeleh about GIPHY Capture. The GIF Maker