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24 alternatives to Bash Screensavers

A github project to collect a bunch of bash-based screensavers/visualizations.

Bash Screensavers is a GitHub project that collects bash-based screensavers and visualizations. It is designed for developers who want terminal-based visual effects and animations. The project brings together a… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier.

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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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   The GitHub Matrix Screensaver▲112

   Latest commits from GitHub visualized Matrix-style

   2016 · winterbe.github.io · its alternatives →

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   Bocker – Docker implemented in 100 lines of bash▲662

   Docker implemented in around 100 lines of bash. Contribute to p8952/bocker development by creating an account on GitHub.

   2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   Bashfs – Run commands as your filesystem▲97

   What if you could use bash from a filesystem? Contribute to pcgrosen/bashfs development by creating an account on GitHub.

   2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   MacOS Live Screensaver – A screensaver that plays live video streams▲65

   Use live streams as screensavers/lock screens on MacOS - hauxir/macos-live-screensaver

   2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   Board For GitHub▲293

   A webview based GitHub project app with native features

   2017 · justinfincher.github.io · its alternatives →

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   Screen Recorder▲330

   A minimal, ad-free screen recorder in your browser

   2020 · snipclip.app · its alternatives →

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   Countdown Screensaver▲187

   A Mac screensaver for counting down to a date

   2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   Bash Dungeon – An educational dungeon crawler in the shell▲164

   This is still WIP, but if anyone is interested, we could develop it much faster and perhaps even with cooler features like TUI graphics etc ... Right now it is all in plain ol bash

   2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Screen – screen sharing for remote work, by the cofounder of Screenherofree tier, from $25/mo▲406

    Work together like you’re in the same room. Supports Mac, Windows, Linux, iOS, Android, Safari, Firefox & Chrome.

    2020 · screen.so · its alternatives →

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    Screen.rip – API for capturing web screenshots▲195

    ScreenChunk is an ultra-fast live Screen Capture studio and WebRTC screen recorder. Capture your desktop, crop 2D regions, and broadcast live streams with zero-knowledge AES-256-GCM chunk protection.

    2017 · screen.rip · its alternatives →

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    Bash▲256

    Solves the blank page problem for product teams

    2024 · its alternatives →

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    Saver▲100

    Geometric screensavers for Mac

    2015 · its alternatives →

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    Gum▲152

    A tool for building glamorous shell scripts

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Posters of Your GitHub Contributions▲235

    2017 · commitprint.com · its alternatives →

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    Screen Recorder Chrome Extension▲260

    The most powerful screen recorder & video editor for Chrome

    2021 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →

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    Screensaver Ninja▲124

    Display websites through your screensaver

    2015 · expireddomains.com · its alternatives →

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    Instantly create a GitHub repository to take screenshots of a web page▲214

    I built a GitHub repository template which automates the process of configuring a new repository to take web page screenshots using GitHub Actions. You can try this out at https://github.com/simonw/shot-scraper-template Use the https://github.com/simonw/shot-scraper-template/generate interface to create a new repository using that template, and paste the URL that you want to take screenshots of in as the "description" field. The new repository will then configure itself using GitHub Actions, take the screenshot and save it back to the repo!

    2022 · simonwillison.net · 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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    Fig▲216

    Visual apps and shortcuts for your terminal

    2020 · its alternatives →

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    bash.rocks – A bash interpreter in the browser▲58

    2017 · bash.rocks · its alternatives →

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    Piping logs, visualizing in a web app – just suffix "| npx logscreen"▲128

    Piping logs, visualising on a web app – just suffix "| npx logscreen" - GitHub - soorajshankar/logScreen: Piping logs, visualising on a web app – just suffix "| npx logscreen"

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    I recreated a flying toasters screensaver for XScreensaver▲80

    "After Dark" by Berkeley Systems was a collection of screensavers for Macintosh and Windows from early 90s; "Flying Toasters" is probably the most famous and loved among them. Using my very limited knowledge of C and X11 programming, I recreated it as a XScreensaver module for Linux. Hope you find it useful or at least amusing!

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Screenlog.js – use console.log without opening the console▲25

    Bring console.log on the screen. Contribute to chinchang/screenlog.js development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

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