Peek
A lightweight screen recording tool for creating animated GIFs and silent videos
- Also known as
- peek
What is Peek?
Peek is a screen recording application that specializes in capturing brief, silent screencasts of selected screen areas in GIF or WebM format. It is optimized for demonstrating UI features or documenting bugs with minimal output size.
Peek pricing
We don't have Peek's full plan breakdown yet (its pricing page resisted automated reading). Here's what we could confirm. Always check live pricing for exact numbers.
What Peek does
The capabilities that matter for gif tools, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Architecture model
- Desktop local application
- Screen recording direct to gif capture
- ✓
- Lossy compression and frame rate reduction algorithms
- ✓
- Webp and mp4 modern format export support
- -
- Standardized meme text macro library and templates
- -
- Video to gif conversion trimming and cropping
- -
- AI background removal for transparent stickers
- -
- Custom watermark stamping for brand protection
- -
- Slack discord and imessage native integration
- -
- Frame by frame canvas drawing and pixel editing
- -
- SOC2 type ii
- -
- Gpl or permissive oss license
- -
- Pricing model
- -
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- Linux
Security & compliance
Known vulnerabilities: 0 (0 in the last 12 months) sourcea count reflects scale & disclosure, not quality
Peek alternatives
Other gif tools we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- KapwingBrowser-based multimedia creation platform for teams to produce videos, images, and audio contentlow · 26%
- Make A GIFCreate and share animated GIFs from videos, images, YouTube links, and webcam footagelow · 37%
- GifoxA macOS desktop application for recording screen activity and converting it into animated GIFs with editing and sharing capabilitieslow · 9%
- ScreenToGifDesktop screen recording software with simultaneous multi-source audio capture and built-in editing toolslow · 25%
- KapFree, open-source screen recording tool for macOSlow · 8%
Compare Peek
Side by side against other gif tools, attribute by attribute, with a source on every value.
The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Peek, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Release cadence | 84 | 0.05 | 4.4 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 46 | 0.08 | 3.6 | ✓ |
| Stars | 76 | 0.03 | 2.0 | ✓ |
| Security score | 21 | 0.04 | 0.9 | ✓ |
| Dependent projects | 5 | 0.06 | 0.3 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 0 | 0.07 | 0.0 | - |
| Development activity | 0 | 0.09 | 0.0 | ✓ |
| Security posture | 0 | 0.07 | 0.0 | - |
| Package downloads | 0 | 0.14 | 0.0 | - |
| Developer Q&A activity | 0 | 0.06 | 0.0 | - |
Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.
All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Activity
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Commits last 30d | 0 | mediumsource · 2026-09-01 · 65% |
Adoption
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | Architecture model: desktop_local_application · Screen recording direct to gif capture: Yes · Lossy compression and frame rate reduction algorithms: Yes | mediumsource · 2026-09-01 · 60% |
Language
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Primary | Vala | highsource · 2026-09-01 · 90% |
License
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Spdx | GPL-3.0 | highsource · 2026-09-01 · 95% |
Pricing
Release
Security
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Trust center | https://github.com/security | mediumsource · 2026-09-01 · 60% |
| Scorecard | 2.1 | highsource · 2026-09-01 · 90% |
| Vulnerabilities | Count: 0 · Source: https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=go&package_name=github.com%2Fphw%2Fpeek&per_page=100 · Last 12m: 0 | highsource · 2026-09-01 · 90% |