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24 alternatives to Carbon Now CLI

Beautiful images of your code from your command line

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Carbon Now CLI launched in 2018; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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Carbon▲24
Create and share beautiful images of your source code
2017 · carbon.now.sh · its alternatives →
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Carbon▲9
Create and share beautiful images of your source code.
2019 · carbon.now.sh · its alternatives →
3
Carbon▲7
Create and share beautiful images of your source code.
2021 · carbon.now.sh · its alternatives →
4
Carbonize▲180
Beautiful images of code by Carbon, natively on your Mac
2019 · dangercove.com · its alternatives →
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Carbon▲10
Create and share beautiful images of your source code
2018 · carbon.now.sh · its alternatives →
6
Freeze▲118
Generate images of code and terminal output
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
7
Carbon▲209
A directory theme built with Astro, Tailwind CSS & MDX
2023 · lexingtonthemes.com · its alternatives →
8
Cline CLI 2.0▲298
Parallel agents & headless CI/CD in your terminal
Feb 2026 · cline.bot · its alternatives →
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Mac CLi▲226
OS X command line tools for developers
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Carbon Slack▲73
Create beautiful images of your code directly from slack
2021 · slack.com · its alternatives →
11
Advanced CLI 3D Modeling Studio▲83
3D scene editor in your command line
2025 · 3dcli.netlify.app · its alternatives →
12
Carbon for Slack V2▲76
Carbon for Slack, now faster and better!
2021 · its alternatives →
13
TechCrunch CLI▲113
A command line Interface for reading TechCrunch articles
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
14
DEV CLI▲132
Access dev.to right from your terminal
2019 · teamxenox.github.io · its alternatives →
15
CodePicnic CLI▲137
Remote development environments right from your terminal
2017 · its alternatives →
16
mdi-cli▲92
Generate material design icons from the command line
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
17
Fig▲216
Visual apps and shortcuts for your terminal
2020 · its alternatives →
18
Cosmic CLI▲117
Hi HN, I'm Tony, founder of Cosmic (a headless CMS). We just open-sourced a CLI that covers the full lifecycle of a content-driven app from creating the content model to deploying to production to updating the codebase all without leaving the terminal. Here's what the full workflow looks like: # Create a project with an AI-generated content model cosmic projects create # → "A recipe blog with recipes, categories, and authors" # Generate content cosmic content -p "Create 5 recipes with images across different categories" # Build a full-stack app wired to your content cosmic build -p "A modern…
Feb 2026 · cosmicjs.com · its alternatives →
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Rich-CLI – A CLI toolbox for highlighting, Markdown, JSON and rich text▲126
Rich-cli is a command line toolbox for fancy output in the terminal - Textualize/rich-cli
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
20
Flexible command line tool to create graphs from CSV data▲95
Flexible command line tool to create graphs from CSV data - mcastorina/graph-cli
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
21
Magic-cli – A copilot for your command line▲158
Blog post: https://guywaldman.com/posts/introducing-magic-cli
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Carbon - Screenshot Editor▲6
Share Beautiful Screenshots
2020 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Carbon Interface 1.0▲115
Measure carbon emissions with an API
2020 · carboninterface.com · its alternatives →
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Image Carbon▲87
Carbon calculator for website images
2023 · imagecarbon.com · its alternatives →

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