Asciinema Alternatives

Asciinema is described as 'Record and share your terminal sessions,the right way. Forget screen recording apps and blurry video. Enjoy a lightweight, purely text based approach to terminal recording. Asciinema aims to be a "go to" place for every command-line user who wants to share his skills w' and is an app in the os & utilities category. There are six alternatives to Asciinema for Linux, Mac, Windows and Web-based. The best Asciinema alternative is showterm, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Asciinema are Scrimba, terminalizer, ttygif and ttyrec.

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Asciinema alternatives are mainly Terminal Emulators but may also be Screen Recorders. Filter by these or use the filter bar below if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of Asciinema.
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Record and share your terminal sessions,the right way. Forget screen recording apps and blurry video. Enjoy a lightweight, purely text based approach to terminal recording. Asciinema aims to be a "go to" place...

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Asciinema alternatives page was last updated May 12, 2024
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    showterm

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    It's showtime in a terminal!

    Showterm lets your record a terminal session exactly as you experience it, right down to the syntax highlighting.

    4 showterm alternatives

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux

    showterm Features

    1.  Command line interface
    2.  Syntax Highlighting
    Discontinued

    Last update was in 2019.

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    • showterm is the most popular Mac & Linux alternative to Asciinema.

    • showterm is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Asciinema.

    • showterm is Free and Open SourceAsciinema is also Free and Open Source
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    Scrimba

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    Scrimba is a new way of teaching and learning how to code. We call it interactive code screencasts. Here’s why it's a great way of learning.

    2 Scrimba alternatives

    License model

    • Free • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online

    Scrimba Features

    1.  Interactive Visualization
    2.  Tutorials
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    • Scrimba is the most popular Web-based alternative to Asciinema.

    • Scrimba is Free and ProprietaryAsciinema is Free and Open Source

  4. terminalizer

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    Record your terminal and generate animated gif images or share a web player.

    6 terminalizer alternatives

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux

    terminalizer Features

    1.  Record desktop activity
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    ttygif

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    ttygif converts a ttyrec file into gif files. It's a stripped down version of ttyplay that screenshots every frame.

    4 ttygif alternatives

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
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  6. ttyrec

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    ttyrec is a program and/or its file format capable of recording the TTY output of a text-mode program together with timestamps and then replaying it.

    4 ttyrec alternatives
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    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
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  7. PowerSession

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    Record a Session in PowerShell. PowerShell version of asciinema based on Windows Pseudo Console(ConPTY) Basic features record/play/auth/upload are working now. https://github.com/ibigbug/PowerSession.

    2 PowerSession alternatives

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
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    • PowerSession is the most popular Windows alternative to Asciinema.

    • PowerSession is Free and Open SourceAsciinema is also Free and Open Source
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