Is there a screen recording app that saves as .gif?

Camtasia. If you scroll down, in the comments Jeff says:

Please, tell what tool you did use to make that kind of gif-based animated demo ?

In this case, it's Camtasia, but I've used gif-gif-gif before for similar effects. Check out the Donation Coder roundup of screencasting tools for more options:

http://www.donationcoder.com/Reviews/Archive/ScreenCasting/

Jeff Atwood on May 9, 2006 9:02 AM

To capture screen shots I find Cropper is very good (and it is free). Animated GIF support is available in the Cropper Plugins.