Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (Apache-2.0)
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- Android

Petrify is described as '(formerly Carbonize) converts your source code into beautiful shareable images through carbon.now.sh' and is an app in the photos & graphics category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Petrify for a variety of platforms, including Web-based, Mac, Self-Hosted, Linux and Windows apps. The best Petrify alternative is Karbonized, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Petrify are Carbon, Ray.so, Faux Code Generator and Codeimg.

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?

Faux Code Generator lets you easily turn your code into faux code. Just post your code for free to GitHub Gist then paste the url in the app. A couple options let you specify dark or light theme and line end visual styling.






Code Glory (previously Code Glorify) is just a simple way to beautify code using CSS effects. It's built for GitHub Pages and relies heavily on GitHub Gist for code references as well as CSS customization and .



Codepng allows you to create awesome snapshots from your source code that you can share on social media. Choose between beautiful hand-selected background gradients and editor themes before exporting your code to PNG images.






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.

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.
