Being the ultra frugal skinflint that I am, I opted to go the freebee route. I use Smart Recorder Lite to make the movie and Drop to Gif to convert the .mov file to an animated .gif file. Smart Recorder Lite is free at the Mac App store. Once you make the movie it will open in QuickTime Player where you can view it and do any cropping that might be needed. I usually save the movie under a relevant name and then drag it into Drop to Gif to convert it to an animated gif file. Drop to Gif is not available at the App store but can be directly downloaded at https://github.com/mortenjust/droptogif/releases/download/1.28/Drop.to.GIF128.zip.