Sometimes you're composing a chat message or commenting on a pull request, and the need to insert a gif strikes, but opening a new browser window would totally break your flow. Tenor Anywhere to the rescue!

Tenor Anywhere is a status bar item which allows you to quickly browse tenor for gifs.

Tenor Anywhere requires macOS, and is installed using Homebrew:

brew cask install bacongravy/tap/tenor-anywhere

Open Tenor Anywhere and the app icon will appear in the system menu bar. It will remain there across logouts and restarts until the status bar item is quit.

Whenever the urge to gif strikes, open Tenor Anywhere by clicking on the icon in the system menu bar, search or browse for a gif to fit your mood, and then copy the URL of the found gif using one of the menu items. You can copy either the plain URL, ready for sending in a chat message, or the URL wrapped in Markdown, ready for insertion in a GitHub comment. Once you've copied, just paste and go.

Huge thanks to Tenor for providing a great service. This project is not affiliated with Tenor in any way.

This project was inspired by https://github.com/cknadler/vim-anywhere, and by the rich gif culture at my place of work.

I use the gif keyboard on iOS every day, and I miss it whenever I'm using macOS. Seeing vim-anywhere on Hacker News gave me the motivation to solve my problem in a similar way. After prototyping a solution using an Automator workflow service and gathering feedback, I rewrote the project as a JavaScript for Automation (JXA) applet to provide a more reliable and consistent user experience across applications. When JXA stopped working in Mojave, I rewrote the project in Swift 4. The project originally used GIPHY, but ugh, Facebook.