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.

Asciinema alternatives are mainly Terminal Emulators but may also be Screen Recorders. Filter by these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of Asciinema.

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Asciinema

Free • Open Source
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Record and share your terminal sessions,the right way. Forget screen recording apps and blurry video. Enjoy a lightweight,...

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showterm
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Free • Open Source
Screen Recorder
Mac
Linux
4 showterm alternatives
It's showtime in a terminal!

Showterm lets your record a terminal session exactly as you experience it, right down to the syntax highlighting.
- - showterm is the most popular Mac & Linux alternative to Asciinema.
- - showterm is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Asciinema.
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showterm Features
1. Command line interfaceshowterm either have CLI support or is a CLI-only app.
2. Syntax Highlightingshowterm supports syntax highlighting for various programming and markup languages.
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Scrimba
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Free • Proprietary
Online
2 Scrimba alternatives
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.
- - Scrimba is the most popular Web-based alternative to Asciinema.
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Scrimba Features
Interactive Visualization
Tutorials
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terminalizer
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Free • Open Source
Linux
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Record your terminal and generate animated gif images or share a web player.
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Record desktop activity
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ttygif
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Free • Open Source
Terminal Emulator
Mac
Linux
4 ttygif alternatives
ttygif converts a ttyrec file into gif files. It's a stripped down version of ttyplay that screenshots every frame.
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ttyrec
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Free • Open Source
Terminal Emulator
Mac
Linux
4 ttyrec alternatives
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.
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PowerSession
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Free • Open Source
Windows
2 PowerSession alternatives
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.
- - PowerSession is the most popular Windows alternative to Asciinema.
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