Carbon Alternatives

Carbon is described as 'You know all of those code screenshots you see on Twitter? Although the code's usually impressive, we saw room for improvement in the aesthetic department. Carbon is the easiest way to create beautiful images of your source code. So what are you waiting for?' and is an website in the development category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Carbon, not only websites but also apps for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Linux and SaaS apps. The best Carbon alternative is ShareX, which is both free and Open Source. Other great sites and apps similar to Carbon are Greenshot, GitHub Gist, Karbonized and Ray.so.

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    Snippet is a developer tool for sharing code images. It offers customization options for window, text editor, background, and aspect ratio. You can customize the title, icon, appearance, controls, opacity, and padding.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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    Codye allows you to present code in more than 180 languages and 80 themes. Available on iOS, iPadOS and macOS.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
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    Petrify (formerly Carbonize) converts your source code into beautiful shareable images through carbon.now.sh.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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    ANSI and ASCII art to PNG converter in C.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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    ToolsMystro offers a wide range of free online tools, including text utilities, image editing, file conversion, and SEO tools, designed to simplify digital tasks efficiently.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
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    Glorious Demo is an open source javascript library that exposes an easy API to create animations for your code samples. Projects like https://nodecron.com/ are already using it.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
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    The ultimate VS Code extension for sharing, discovering, and managing code snippets. Boost your productivity with seamless snippet collaboration across your team.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Visual Studio Code
     
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    Source Code Shots provides an easy and API-accessible way to generate great looking images of source code for sharing on social media or elsewhere.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
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    Comments about Source Code Shots as an Alternative to Carbon
    Alexandre ZANNI
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    You can't customize anything outside themes.

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    • Source Code Shots is Free and ProprietaryCarbon is Free and Open Source
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