Gifox 3 is coming soon!

New features

Gifox 2 shipped over 6 years ago and since then it’s grown into the best all-round GIF app – in 2026 we’re turning the page and starting a new chapter.

This journey wouldn’t be possible without you – our users – your trust, support, feedback, frustration, and patience. We’re grateful to everyone who’s been using Gifox and helping make it better – a huge-huge thank you from each and every one of us.

Gifox 3 will come packed with features and improvements, and here’s what will ship in the initial release, and what will come later in the year:

• Reworked GIF encoding engine with faster and better compression.
• New editor features and tools (redaction, overlays, boomerangs).
• New import features and advanced timing controls.
• Floating thumbnails for completed imports and captures.
• Advanced mouse and keyboard capture controls.
• Smart window snapping for free area selection.
• Non-status-bar mode with a standalone library window.
• Customizable capture backgrounds.
• Self-hosted cloud sharing integration.
• More export formats.
• Extensible plugin system.

New pricing

Gifox 3 will also come with increased pricing – we hate to do this, and we’ve been delaying it for a long time, but unfortunately (as most of you know) apps don’t make and maintain themselves.

Gifox Basic

Gifox Pro

Personal

$24

per license

USD, taxes included

• Unlimited screen recording
• Removable watermark
• Advanced editor tools
• One year of free updates

Gifox Pro

Teams

$36

per license

USD, taxes included

• All in Personal
• Team license management
• Customizable watermark
• Self-hosted sharing integration

Lately Gifox hasn’t been bringing in enough to support us working on it full-time, and things got a little quiet while we explored other ideas to keep the business running. We love creating polished products and most of our users are creators themselves – we all enjoy and appreciate apps with that “above-average” attention to detail, and that’s how we want to keep Gifox.

As things stand now, we have two options: keep the current pricing and move Gifox into maintenance mode, or increase it so we can continue ongoing development – neither is perfect, and we know we can’t make everyone happy.

So we’ll be raising the price while keeping the one-time purchase model, but with one year of free upgrades – and before that, we’ll do a major update of Gifox 2 so it continues to work. Here’s exactly what we’re going to do:

• Gifox 2 will receive the big round of updates and fixes before Gifox 3 replaces it – this should hopefully make it last through the next major macOS release or two, which is what usually breaks the app.
• Gifox 3 pricing will increase to $24 (or similarly in other currencies), but it will remain a one-time purchase with one year of free updates. This helps us avoid switching to a subscription model, and we won’t be locking you out of older versions.
• Gifox 3 will have a new plan for teams with centralized license management, self-hosted cloud sharing integrations, and other business-focused features.
• Existing Gifox 2 users who purchased their license within 12 months of the Gifox 3 release will be able to switch to Gifox 3 for free, and keep receiving free updates for that remaining time.
• We’ll offer a 50% discount for subscription-like annual renewals, and we’ll continue offering 30% educational discounts for students and teachers.

We believe this is a fair and balanced approach for everyone: existing users who are not ready to upgrade can keep using their older paid version; users who want the latest version can refresh at half the price; and teams will be able to get extra features with a separate plan.

New faces

Finally, as we gear up for Gifox 3, we’re also looking for a seasoned Swift developer and a content creator to join our team and help take it to the next level.

If you’re interested, or if you know someone who might be, please drop us a line on team@gifox.app – we’d love to hear from you. Again, a huge thanks from all of us, and we hope Gifox 3 becomes your favorite app.

Cheers!

Ian, Nick,
Mike & Lerina