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24 alternatives to Asciinema casts post-production tools

asciinema casts post-production tools. Contribute to cirocosta/asciinema-edit development by creating an account on GitHub.

Asciinema is a collection of post-production tools for terminal recordings. It allows users to edit and refine recorded command-line sessions after capture. The software is designed for developers, system… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Asciinema casts post-production tools launched in 2018; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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asciinema▲92
Record, share and embed your terminal sessions the right way
2015 · asciinema.org · its alternatives →
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Asciimatics: a cross-platform terminal animation/drawing library▲21
A cross platform package to do curses-like operations, plus higher level APIs and widgets to create text UIs and ASCII art animations - peterbrittain/asciimatics
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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ASCII Animals in Your Terminal▲62
2012 · ivolo.me · its alternatives →
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Termtosvg – Record terminal sessions as SVG animations▲767
Record terminal sessions as SVG animations. Contribute to nbedos/termtosvg development by creating an account on GitHub.
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Iota – a text editor written in Rust▲221
A terminal-based text editor written in Rust. Contribute to gchp/iota development by creating an account on GitHub.
2014 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Mermaid ASCII Diagrams▲234
2024 · mermaid-ascii.art · its alternatives →
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VisiData – vi for data▲221
A terminal spreadsheet multitool for discovering and arranging data - saulpw/visidata
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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AutoBashCraft – a tool for automated Markdown screencast generation▲6
Hello HN, Around New Year's I started a personal project called AutoBashCraft (ABC), aiming to simplify the creation of screencasts from bash code blocks in markdown files. I needed to create a lot of markdown files explaining workflows and code. I wanted to make the text-heavy files more interesting and thought of screencasts. There are many great tools to record terminal sessions. Then I found the asciinema-rec-script (https://github.com/zechris/asciinema-rec_script) by Chris Ottrey that creates screencasts of bash scripts that look like a record of a terminal session…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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ASCII TV – Stream ASCII movies in your terminal with curl▲108
Stream ASCII movies over HTTP. Contribute to martinraison/ascii-tv development by creating an account on GitHub.
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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AsciiSketch a free browser-based ASCII art and diagram editor▲53
Jan 2026 · files.littlebird.com.au · its alternatives →
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Screensavers for your terminal (Bevy/Ratatui)▲119
Screensavers for your terminal. Contribute to cxreiff/ttysvr development by creating an account on GitHub.
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Typograms, Markdown-like renderer for ASCII diagrams▲140
2022 · code.sgo.to · its alternatives →
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ttystudio – a terminal-to-gif recorder without the headaches▲118
A terminal-to-gif recorder minus the headaches. Contribute to chjj/ttystudio development by creating an account on GitHub.
2015 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Terminal-Rendered ASCII Shaders▲46
CPU rendered ASCII art shader writing tool with hot reloading. - danthedaniel/js-shaders
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
15CP
Choose Photo. Make Ascii▲116
2012 · dchang.mit.edu · its alternatives →
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Patat – Terminal-based presentations using Pandoc▲167
Terminal-based presentations using Pandoc. Contribute to jaspervdj/patat development by creating an account on GitHub.
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Tome, aka Tom's Editor – a new command-line text editor▲131
A command line text editor written in Node.js, focused on JavaScript. - tome/README.md at main · boutell/tome
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Monodraw, an ASCII Art Editor for Mac▲141
2015 · monodraw.com · its alternatives →
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A retro terminal text editor for GNU/Linux coded in C (C-edit)▲168
I set about coding my own version of the classic MS-DOS EDIT.COM for GNU/Linux systems four years ago and it this is where the project is at... still rough around the edges but works well with Termux! :) Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7bneUX_kVA
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Ascii_tree – A way to create beautiful ASCII trees▲79
Create beautiful ascii trees. Contribute to spandanb/asciitree development by creating an account on GitHub.
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A terminal spreadsheet editor with Vim keybindings▲126
While speccing out this spreadsheet tool, I realized that I never had to think about the keybindings. It all just came naturally from Vim. Normal/insert/visual modes, hjkl navigation, dd/yy/p, :w, :q. The usual muscle memory works. It supports CSV/TSV import and export, and a native .cell format that preserves formulas. The formula engine handles SUM, AVERAGE, COUNT, MIN, MAX, and IF with range references. The codebase is a Cargo workspace: a pure cell-sheet-core library (no TUI dependency) and a cell-sheet-tui crate on top of ratatui. Early days, but it's usable. To…
Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Santana by Deep Softworks▲85
Performant, real-time data visualization in your terminal
Mar 2026 · its alternatives →
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IEMidi – Cross-platform MIDI map editor for arbitrary controllers▲56
IE's cross platform midi map editor for arbitrary controllers - GitHub - Interactive-Echoes/IEMidi: IE's cross platform midi map editor for arbitrary controllers
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Asciimap – Interactive ASCII world map with live data▲10
asciimap is a browser-based ASCII cartography app that renders live map features - Lionel-Lim/asciimap
Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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