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24 alternatives to Hit That, render the web in your terminal

:fist: Render beautiful pixel perfect representations of websites in your terminal - bevacqua/hit-that

Hit That is a developer tool that renders websites as pixel-perfect visual representations directly in the terminal. It converts web pages into terminal-compatible output so users can view website layouts without… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Hit That, render the web in your terminal launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    :fist: Render beautiful pixel perfect representations of websites in your terminal - bevacqua/hit-that

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A fully interactive, realtime and modern browser rendered to TTY

    2018 · brow.sh · its alternatives →

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    I made a built-from scratch Wayland Compositor to display any GUI app* in the terminal! I think there is a lot of unexplored potential in custom Wayland compositors, a lot of really cool things you can embed existing applications into! So, I started with embedding apps into the terminal because that is the easiest input/output (output is just utf-8 and I use the great `chafa` library for that, and I just read from stdin for the input). If you have any other ideas for cool Wayland compositors, let me know. I purposedly wrote 80% the app in Typescript to appeal to the most developers and…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    CPU rendered ASCII art shader writing tool with hot reloading. - danthedaniel/js-shaders

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    The screenshot API you can finally rely on

    2023 · screenshotone.com · its alternatives →

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    Build terminal dashboards using ascii/ansi art and javascript - yaronn/blessed-contrib

    2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Screensavers for your terminal. Contribute to cxreiff/ttysvr development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A syntax-highlighting pager for git, diff, grep, rg --json, and blame output - dandavison/delta

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Take responsive screenshots with the click of a button

    2017 · its alternatives →

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    Print your name in style. Contribute to arsham/figurine development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Highlight▲318

    See and act on your webapp's issues and interactions

    2021 · launchdarkly.com · its alternatives →

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    A point to point color terminal video chat. Contribute to mofarrell/p2pvc development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN, This is a TUI app which displays interactive Markdown documents. Interactive in the sense that you can scroll code fences / tables / and click links. There's a Table of Contents extracted from the MD, and a very rudimentary browser like forward + back. I'm thinking it could be the starting point for a variety of hypertext like applications in the terminal. Very much a work in progress.

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A fully-modern text-based browser, rendering to TTY and browsers - browsh-org/browsh

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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

    Oct 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi everyone, Gridland is a runtime + ShadCN UI registry that makes it possible to build terminal apps that run in the browser as well as the native terminal. This is useful for demoing TUIs so that users know what they're getting before they are invested enough to install them. And, tbh, it's also just super fun! Gridland is the successor to Ink Web (ink-web.dev) which is the same concept, but using Ink + xterm.js. After building Ink Web, we continued experimenting and found that using OpenTUI and a canvas renderer performed better with less flickering and nearly instant load times. We're…

    Mar 2026 · gridland.io · its alternatives →

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    Fig▲216

    Visual apps and shortcuts for your terminal

    2020 · its alternatives →

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    Last week's post from Thariq "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of HTML" went viral in X. He made a good point about HTML being the more expressive and human friendly alternative to markdown files. I completely buy in where he's coming from, I've been asking Claude Code to create me HTML files to better understand what we're planning and building together. What Thariq didn't address was the part of sharing and collaborating on these HTML artifacts (he proposed uploading to S3). While I've been heavy user of HTML artifacts to share quarterly plans, implementation specs, technical guides and…

    May 2026 · display.dev · its alternatives →

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    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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    A simple and fast zero-dependencies-library to transform text-selections into serializable markings.

    2015 · bowlingx.github.io · its alternatives →

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    Terminal Markdown previewer — GUI-like experience. - RivoLink/leaf

    Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Freeze▲118

    Generate images of code and terminal output

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Creating code samples in simple terminal interface

    2022 · terminalgif.com · its alternatives →

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