norseboar/gif-editor

GIF Editor is a simple Windows desktop app for trimming animated GIF files down to a shorter clip. It is built with Tauri, a framework that lets developers write the app's interface in web technology, here React and TypeScript, while packaging it as a native desktop program using Rust underneath. The README is fairly brief and describes a focused, single purpose tool rather than a full featured editor. The app lets you open a GIF file stored on your computer and preview it with normal play and pause controls, plus the ability to scrub through frames manually. To trim the file, you drag start and end handles that snap to individual frames, marking out the section you want to keep. Once you have picked a range, you export it as a brand new GIF file containing only those frames. Because this is a desktop application rather than a hosted website, running it during development requires installing Node.js, the Rust toolchain, and Microsoft's Visual Studio Build Tools with the C++ desktop development workload, since Tauri compiles a native Rust component alongside the web based interface. The README gives specific PowerShell commands for getting the Rust linker working if it is not found automatically, then for installing dependencies and running the app in development mode, as well as a separate command for producing a final build. The README also lists a short manual testing checklist for anyone contributing changes, covering things like opening GIFs with different frame timing and transparency, making sure the trim handles cannot be dragged past each other, exporting trims from different parts of a GIF and reopening the results, and confirming the app behaves correctly if you cancel a dialog, open a broken file, or load a second GIF while one is already open.