Peek is a computer software program for

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to create simple

animated GIF The Graphics Interchange Format (GIF; or , ) is a Raster graphics, bitmap Image file formats, image format that was developed by a team at the online services provider CompuServe led by American computer scientist Steve Wilhite and released ...

file based on the GIF89a file format. A

screencast A screencast is a digital recording of computer screen output, also known as a video screen capture or a screen recording, often containing audio narration. The term ''screencast'' compares with the related term ''screenshot''; whereas screenshot ...

is created from a user-defined screen area. Peek is optimized for generating animated GIFs, but can also directly record to

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MP4 MP4 (formally MPEG-4 Part 14), is a digital multimedia container format most commonly used to store video and audio, but it can also be used to store other data such as subtitles and still images. Like most modern container formats, it allows ...

. Peek is not a general purpose screencast app with extended features but rather focuses on the single task of creating small, silent screencasts of an area of the screen for creating GIF animations or silent WebM or MP4 videos. Peek runs on

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or inside a

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Wayland session using

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. Peek has been featured in Issue 206/2018 of the ''

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''. On January 14, 2023
peek was declared deprecated.

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on

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. Free screencasting software Linux-only free software

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