It’s Hack Week here at The Verge, so I’m going to keep this short: Giphy has a new iPhone app out today called Giphy Cam. It makes GIFs, and it’s insanely fun to play with. That’s probably extra true if you — like me — are typically awful at making GIFs by yourself.
You should download this insanely fun GIF making app for iPhone right now
is The Verge’s executive editor. He has covered tech, policy, and online creators for over a decade.
GIFsssssssss
Giphy Cam couldn’t be much more straightforward. There’s no social network, no feed, no browsing. It’s literally just a camera, some filters, and a bunch of weird borders, backgrounds, and animations that you can add to your recording. Look through and you’ll find GIF standbys — like the falling “Deal With It” shades — and plenty of weirder stuff, like a strange band of cats.
There really isn’t anything more to the app. It’s just a camera that lets you save an animation and share it elsewhere. Like here, for instance:
And the apparent office favorite:
Follow topics and authors from this story to see more like this in your personalized homepage feed and to receive email updates.
Most Popular
Most Popular
- Anker’s new window-mounted camera monitors the outside of your home from within it
- Sam Altman addresses RAM comments: People should ‘put as much as they want in their computers’
- The touchscreen MacBook Pro is a winner
- Discord is ditching Electron and its new app uses less RAM
- Those Jeff Bezos hair transplant photos are very fake
