GIF Maker - ImgPlay Reviews

I use GIFMaker weekly to produce animations from my phone using the photos from my photo stream. They’ve improved it in many ways over the years, including the ability to reorder frames which is huge! I love being able to go back and forth to select which photos I do and don’t want to use frame by frame.

The one feature I would most love for them to improve is the ability to place additional photo frames after you start building your timeline anywhere you want. They did add the ability to add frames at the end of a sequence, which is huge! But unlike all of the other frames, you can’t drag to reorder them, you can only place them at the end. This makes this feature pretty useless for my purposes, but it’s almost a great feature. Overall, thanks for your work on GIFMaker!

Pre-Rave Rant: I’m so tired of all the apps being like “you get limited features for free, if you want more than 2 features or making 3 things ever, you have to subscribe for $10/month” like no. I used to be able to buy the full version of an app for $2. Am I supposed to sink hundreds of dollars a year to have the pro version of multiple apps? So stupid.

Actual Raving Review: GIFMaker actually lets you do things. If you want to just do some basic stuff the free version is fine but there’s a watermark in the corner. And it’s $8 for one lifetime purchase which I almost want to pay just out of appreciation. And even the free version still lets you convert from multiple file types and arrange each frame as you like. Thank you so much to the makers of GIFMaker 🥰

I paid for the pro version of GIFMaker a while ago and then it fell out of my regular use rotation so it was uninstalled from my phone but the icon remained. When I went to use it again, it was able to be downloaded from the cloud but GIFMaker wouldn’t open in my phone, so I came to GIFMaker Store to find it and was unable to. Instead there was GIFMaker, with the same name and functions and icon. So I downloaded GIFMaker and of course there’s almost no functionality with the free version. I went to check out restore purchases to see if my pro version would register and it did not. Now GIFMaker is pretty useful, or at least it was at the iteration I’d last used, but I’m very confused about this whole issue. It’s only ~$5 for the upgrade sure, but it’s really the principle of the thing isn’t it? Who wants to shell out any amount of change on something twice? It’s certainly a vexatious idea and even more bitter in the doing. I’d like to know what all these shenanigans mean before deciding where to squander my coin.

App can be a bit temperamental at times. I wish data compression was better, my gifs take more memory than the videos they come from lol. What’s up w/ that? The UI gives me issues sometimes, the updates occasionally take away tweaks I liked, or moves them around somewhere else in the UI.

That said, it’s still a great User Interface & app does SO MUCH for what it costs & they’re constantly adding & fixing stuff. Gotten my money’s worth many times over. Despite the gif size issue I use it all the time. I even use it to quickly edit photos over iOS’s awful photo editor. I would recommend it, definitely a killer app.

(Edited to remove some unfair statements I made through ignorance. Thanks dev for politely educating me.)

Absolutely love it. I’ve been wanting to make a gif for my favorite mobile game, Celtic Heroes, but I couldn’t do that without showing the hotbar, healthbar, and the minimap. So I was specifically looking for an app that had good reviews and I could zoom in with. The other apps I tried/looked at had neither. I thought that GIFMaker didn’t have that feature, so I’m SO happy with GIFMaker! Now I have some really awesome gifs of my Celtic Hero on her black steed with her white wolf beside her while a dragon glides behind! Plus, I could add a beautiful text with my toon’s name. Love it! ❤️
Only thing I’d suggest is making the trimming more accurate. I’d trim it at first and find it just a little off when I went to crop it. But that’s not too big of a deal.
Wonderful app, love it, download it, have some fun with it! 👍

I really like GIFMaker overall—it has lots of features and allows conversion from and from numerous formats. The user interface is also really good. Now, I'll list concerns/missing features in order of importance:

1. One additional feature that I would really appreciate is the ability to set the output specs of the GIF during the save process, for example: resolution, frame rate (I realize this can be set globally, but I would very much prefer to be able to manipulate it during the output process), index palette (number of colors, perceptual, adaptive, custom, web, etc—similar to the GIF options in Adob Animate), and dithering (error diffusion, noise, halftone, none—again, similar to Adob Animate).

2. Output GIF compression seems off (possibly due to background choices being made in '1.' above). When comparing the output file size to GIFs generated with other tools, it seems really large on high or medium quality (and there is a huge and noticeable drop-off on low).

3. It would also be nice to be able to adjust things like sharpness/noise, contrast, brightness, saturation/vibrance, shadows/highlights, tint/temp,

4. Frame-by-frame GIF editing, ideally as layers similar to using GIMP.

Thanks again for a great app, and I hope to see continued development.

• Making gifs has never been easier with GIFMaker.

• That’s what I’d say in 2017 when I first downloaded GIFMaker. - the developers never stop adding features and most impressively, they allow you to use a ton of features for the massive price of $0.00. I’d recommend purchasing just to support them, as apps of this caliber these days are rare! I would hate to see them not making enough money to expand in other areas of the photo/video editing space!

• Thank you for providing such an awesome and seamless iOS solution, as well as your continued support and feature upgrades! I look forward to your future mobile application endeavors!

I use GIFMaker to make stop-motion style videos for my art business. I love how quickly it puts the video together from my snapshots and the ability to reverse the loop. My biggest complaint is that the speed of 0.15 is my sweet spot for this type of animation, and is nearly impossible to get the slider to stop there- it always seems to want to stop at 0.10 or 0.20 when I take my finger off the slider, even when it just showed me 0.15. This can be incredibly frustrating, so I wish there was a way to manually set the speed that was more efficient than this very sensitive slider. Otherwise, like other users have said, I would love the ability to add text for only a portion of the video. All in all, an effective app for making videos from my photos!

It all started when I wanted to make cringe Gacha Life videos because for some reason I liked Gacha lol I got this because my friend suggested it even though she never even knew it existed I made Gachas for a bit and then I recognized the apps purpose to make gifs and not Gachas and animation I really wanted to be a animator so for awhile I was using FlipaClip as much as possible but one day I came back to GIFMaker and started making gifs it’s been a really fun ride and I can’t wait to see ImgPlays future one request I have is the fill in tool when your animating gifs but other wise I love it so thank you for the great app and i hope you liked reading this if you saw it.

Edit 2: Thank you for the help!! I got it to work, I just had to update my iOS version. :)

Edit 1: I’ve been trying to restore the pro version but it keeps saying that it failed to connect to the iTunes Store? So it only worked once and now I can’t unlock the pro features again.

From past GIF maker apps I’ve downloaded, this one’s probably the best. It’s just what I was looking for (btw I got GIFMaker months ago) and everything about it is great! But sometimes, the frames don’t work properly. Like, I use the back and fourth button so the GIF’s frames can go from the first frames to last, but it can get a little messed up, idk. I recommend GIFMaker though!

I really want to give GIFMaker 5 starts (and I definitely will if GIFMaker is updated), but the only thing I think GIFMaker needs is the ability to select multiple GIF files, and video files from your library. Currently you can select multiple photos to make custom gifs from your library, but the implementation of selecting multiple gif files would give us a ton of creative freedom!

As of now, GIFMaker has pretty much every function you could need. Great editing options, overlaying text with tons of custom fonts, and just an overall clean app design that is easy to navigate. You can also save files as high quality videos for sharing on Instagram - great feature especially for fun social media posts for my business!

I even paid just a couple bucks to upgrade to the pro version since GIFMaker is just so easy to use. Upgrading gets rid of the watermark on the bottom right-hand corner of the gif, and also supports the developer. You can tell they pay attention to detail.

I highly recommend GIFMaker for personal and business use - please just add my one requested feature! Thanks for the great software!!

UPDATE SUGGESTION: support for collaged gifs would be nice ( not necessarily freeform collage but maybe templates like having 2 videos side to side and making that into a gif)

START OF REVIEW: Im very picky with my gif qualities...when i make gifs i only really use photoshop because it gives me a lot of flexibility in editing, making color corrections, quality, data size and frame number.

I downloaded SO much, if not all, gif makers that i could possibly find on GIFMaker store and imgplay is the one that EXCEEDED my expectations.

* GIFMaker has color correcting tools
*i can control the speed
*i can even reverse my gif or make it boomerang style
*i can put text and stickers
*i can draw
*BUT WHAT GIFMaker HAD THAT NO OTHER GIF
APPS HAD FROM WHAT IVE TESTED
WAS (and quite frankly what i was looking for)
>> number of frames option (up til 30)
>>having the power to choose the data
size of my gif (5mb-20mb)
(this makes gifs more hd)

IMPROVEMENT: PLEASE SUPPORT UP TO 60 FRAMES

other than that AMAZING GIF APP great job to the developers and their team .... will def purchase pro☺️

Hi there everyone! Dear fellow users, devs, grumpy people!

I would like leave a quick feedback on overall improvements for the last year.

GIFMaker has been the best gif tool i ever used. I do a lot of photography and often use gifs for any purpose i need. Wether it’s work related, fun or just being silly, GIFMaker hasn’t let me down once!

In devs defense, the smart ... that had the guts to personally attack other users, i’d love for you to get ... lost. If you have an issue, go contact the support first and then scream like a savage in public.

I would like to thank again devs for everything they do to keep GIFMaker amazing as it it and the new pro features are amazing! Purchased the package without even blinking!

It’s a great, reliable, simple and also professional tool for any gif needs you might have! It doesn’t matter if you’re are a pro or a beginner, you’ll love it!

I keep using this and only GIFMaker! Even if it’s photography done with my camera, it still can pull the heavy load of pictures!

Love it! ❤️

Are you trying to make a gif from a vid? Or maybe you have a gif already and just want to get that perfect loop. THIS IS GIFMaker YOU NEED!

I just tried the top 5 apps after typing in gif maker and after downloading, trying, exploring all those apps for 4 hours, i hit this one and let me say, i dont think it should be as low in the search as it is. After 30 mins of use it hit every need i was looking for, and the needs it didnt have, were only a purchase away! I dont regret buying this for a moment, and im the sort of person who gets a 5$ pizza already made and cooked and thinks about returning it for the 1$ frozen next door.

I love GIFMaker. It's so easy to use. There's just one problem: the quality of the gifs isn't good once you save them. There's this bubbly, glossy effect on them once they are saved which ruins the quality. They look clear/normal in the editing stage until they are saved then the bubbly/glossy effect appears on them. Fix this please!!! It's annoying

**Update:
The dithering setting solved the problem! My gifs are as clear as day and they don’t have that bubbly/glossy effect on them anymore. Everything about GIFMaker is perfect now. 5 star worthy. Thank you for your help ImgPlay! 😁

I wrote this yesterday before the update today, but let’s hope these are still eventually fixed. Thanks.
I think GIFMaker is 1 of the best apps in GIFMaker Store, but I want to say it’s the greatest, but I can’t just yet... I only have 3 problems with it.
1) it wouldn’t let me edit a video over a minute. I think it should let’s edit a video far beyond a minute. Maybe like 30 minuets or an hour.
2) I tried to crop it and it would only crop out 15 seconds of a video that’s a little over a minute.
3) My last problem was that after I edit a video, the sound is drastically turned down for some unknown reason. Thank you & I hope you guys update this very soon.

This is everything great about a good iPhone app with none of the hot garbage involved in most iPhone apps.

It does a lot of video processing things that are fairly complicated on the back end, but presents them to the user in a very simple, very functional way. It’s got a TON of features, nearly all of which work as you would expect with no hassle.

It’s also a paid app without a weird data harvesting, ad riddled mess of a revenue model. It’s a joy to use, and I’m happy I sent the developers my filthy lucre in exchange for a great product.

Imgbase... you have truly outdone yourself with having the best gif creator in GIFMaker store. The upgrades you made was a great addition I didn’t mind paying extra for. You have listened to your supporters and for that, you will continue to grow and go a long way. On your next future update, I would love to have the option to create collages made with the combination of gifs, pictures, and videos of choice and it would be great to have some extra control in the adjustment tab like... Exposure, blacks, and highlights. Thanks again for taking the time to hear our request.

People out there who love making fast clips of everything: don’t waste your time searching and trying options, GIFMaker is the best !!! Enormous amount of options, effects etc, way more then other app offer. Insane range and flexibility for a final format, lets you fine tune your vid. Nicely surprised by the low price, I would not hesitate to pay triple for such an excellent app, making it affordable for students. Thank you developers, you really nailed it!! Please consider adding more unique creative effects/filters and people will buy them separately, I will !! Thanks! :)

This is the only app I’ve found that makes nice gifs, and very easily as well. I’ve purchased the pro features because I enjoyed the free version but wanted the other features. It was worth the money and I really like it. The only thing I would love if it could improve is the gif quality; I try to sharpen the gif in order to give it a bit more quality in a sense and sometimes it works but other times the gif ends up still being blotchy or low quality. Other than that, GIFMaker is actually worth the time and money :)

GIFMaker is very easy to use, and it does exactly what it says that it does. I use it more than I thought, because I like to send short videos with my txt’s and posts. Many times people are in a hurry and don’t click the video. ANIMATED GIF’s auto play! So my cute message gets seen!

I can only point out one “flaw”. The only reason that I am writing this review, is because I wanted to refer a friend to GIFMaker , but there is not a “Tell a friend about our App” Link in the help section. So I used the review link to get to the correct app in GIFMaker Store. 😁 Other than that, it’s a GREAT APP!!!
Keep up the good work guys!
Six stars. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

I purchased the bundle to get GIFMaker to make GIFs on an iPad Pro. GIFMaker worked great for a year ... only a few glitches. But sadly GIFMaker has not worked at all for many many months. GIFMaker just freezes when you select photos (from iCloud). Nothing happens in GIFMaker after that action. Frozen. Frustrating. The last update many months ago did not help. I give two stars in remembrance of what GIFMaker once did. It used to work - I haven’t changed what I do. GIFMaker changed from working to not working. Today zero stars would be the rating. It amazes me that there has been no update fix. I removed and reinstalled GIFMaker - did not help. Update to fix please.

I have always loved GIFMaker and I bought the original full version. However, with the new update it does not work as well as it used to. I could make gifs with transparent background but now that isn’t possible, when I tap the none selection in the background section it just puts the image in the background zoomed in. Also when I tried to convert a video into a gif a color disappeared when it saved to my gallery. I even tried to delete it and downloading it again but the problems still remained. This is unfortunate because I made commissions with GIFMaker. This used to be my favorite gif maker app but now I have to make gifs with other means. I hope you will fix this problem so that I can make gifs with GIFMaker again.

I used to really like GIFMaker but it’s gotten so obnoxious. It keeps trying to upsell me on pro plans etc. Okay, fine, that’s annoying but not a dealbreaker. The obnoxious part is that repeatedly tries freeze me out of GIFs that I’d spent a long time assembling — worked really hard on — and won’t let me get back into my project to download it or upload it or post it UNLESS I purchase something. They’re basically holding their own app hostage and demanding you pay a random first before they’ll let you back into your project. it’s really off-putting and gross and bad business and a total disrespect of the user’s time and creative labor.
I won’t be using it anymore. It got so frustrating tonight that I deleted it from my phone. Which is too bad, but... life’s too short for that nonsense.