AniView

AniView is a no-frills and very lightweight piece of software that makes it as simple as possible for you to view GIFs.

The utility can be deployed on your computer's system with practically no special effort on your behalf thanks to its typical, wizard-based installer. Please note that AniView requires. NET Framework 4.6.2 to be present in order to run as intended.

Once launched, you are bound to discover that AniView sports a relatively simplistic yet intuitive interface that should make things quite clear even for the most inexperienced users out there.

The app's main window encompasses a GIF player and three large buttons. As you may have guessed, the arrow buttons allow you to toggle between multiple GIFs located in the current working directory and the Pin button can be used to stop and resume the animation.

Probably the most useful feature of AniView is the fact that it allows you to export all the GIFs frames to a location of your choosing. That said, we should also point out that the utility offers you the possibility to export the frames to formats such as PNG, BMP, JPEG, TIFF and even GIF.

To change the format, simply visit the app's Settings section. Since we are on the subject, from the General tab, you can enable or disable the following features: automatic updates, drag and drop functionality, automatic window resizing, full-screen support. What is more, you can also change the repeat behavior or even create custom ones.

Despite its simplicity, you might be surprised to hear that the app also comes with a few UI customization options. For example, within the Theme Tab, you can change the app's interface style, the metro brush's color and even the border thickness.

Taking everything into consideration, AniView is not what you would call an impressive application even though, we must admit, it does its job quite valiantly. If you are looking for a simplistic GIF viewer with a lot of customization options, which allows you to export any GIF's frames to a some of the most popular graphic formats, then AniView is definitely worthy of your attention.