Chrome extension · Manifest V3

Turn any part of a page into a GIF

Drag a box around a loading spinner, a hover animation, or a bug you need to show a teammate. CrewGIF records it and hands you an optimized animated GIF you can paste straight into Slack, GitHub, or Jira.

No account. No tracking. Nothing leaves your computer.

8.4s / 25s Stop

Illustration of the selection overlay and recording pill.

Everything you need, nothing you don't

Region or full tab

Drag-select exactly the area you care about, or capture the entire viewport in one click.

Up to 25 seconds

Long enough for a real interaction. Stop early any time from the popup, the on-page pill, or a keyboard shortcut.

Small, sharp output

One global color palette plus inter-frame differencing, so only the pixels that actually changed get stored.

Copy or save

Copy the GIF straight to your clipboard and paste it into a chat or issue, or save it to your Downloads folder.

Keyboard shortcut

Stop recording with Alt + Shift + S — remappable in Chrome.

Private by design

Zero network requests. No analytics, no accounts, and no permission to read any website's data.

Adjustable frame rate (8–15 fps) and output width (480–1600 px).

How it works

  1. 1

    Click the CrewGIF icon

    Pick your frame rate and output width. Your choices are remembered for next time.

  2. 2

    Choose what to record

    Record region to drag a selection, or Record full tab to capture the whole viewport.

  3. 3

    Stop when you're done

    Use the Stop button, the on-page pill, or the keyboard shortcut. Recording also ends on its own at 25 seconds. A dotted border shows exactly what's being captured — and it never appears in the GIF.

  4. 4

    Save, copy, or discard

    Preview the result right in the popup, then save it, copy it, or throw it away and record again.

Your recordings stay yours

CrewGIF has no servers, so there is nowhere for your data to go. The extension makes no network requests at all — no accounts, no analytics, no telemetry, no remote code.

Read the full privacy policy

Questions or feedback?

Bug reports, feature ideas, and general notes are all welcome.