Silicon Alternatives

Silicon is described as 'Create a beautiful image of your source code. Silicon is a simple CLI (commandline) tool to create great looking code screenshots. Also available as a plugin for Vim and GNU Emacs' and is an app in the os & utilities category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Silicon for a variety of platforms, including Web-based, Mac, Self-Hosted, SaaS and Windows apps. The best Silicon alternative is Carbon, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Silicon are Karbonized, Ray.so, CodeSnap.dev and Faux Code Generator.

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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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    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 (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
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