Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Screensavers for your terminal (Bevy/Ratatui)
Screensavers for your terminal. Contribute to cxreiff/ttysvr development by creating an account on GitHub.
This is a collection of screensavers designed to run in terminal environments, built using Bevy and Ratatui frameworks. It's aimed at developers who want animated visual effects within their command-line interface. The… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Screensavers for your terminal (Bevy/Ratatui) launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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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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A github project to collect a bunch of bash-based screensavers/visualizations.
Oct 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN community, I’m Zach, founder and CEO of Warp, and am excited to show you Warp, a fast Rust-based terminal that’s easy to use and built for teams. As of today, Warp is in public beta and any Mac user can download it. It works with bash, zsh, and fish. The terminal’s teletype-like interface has made it hard for the CLI to thrive. After 20 years of programming, I still find it hard to copy a command’s output; I always forget how to use `tar`; and I always have to relearn how to move my cursor. To fix fundamental accessibility issues, I believe we need to start innovating on the terminal,…
2022 · warp.dev · its alternatives →
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TerminalWidget▲136Put script output in your Desktop/Home screen widgets.
Aug 2026 · terminalwidget.app · 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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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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t-rec▲80Blazingly fast terminal recorder generates animated gifs
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Use live streams as screensavers/lock screens on MacOS - hauxir/macos-live-screensaver
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi, I've been working on something I've been thinking for long time but since I had no experience with macOS screen savers I always posponed. Now thanks to Claude I was able to create a screensaver that scroll ANSI files while your computer is idle. It allow to use local ANS files or packs directly from 16colo.rs. Repo: https://github.com/lardissone/ansi-saver
Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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ScreenVeil▲86Hide what shouldn’t be seen on your computer
May 2026 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Screentell▲164I’m an indie dev, and every time I launch or ship anything, there’s this familiar mini-hell: “now I need to record a decent demo…” You probably know the drill: - install yet another screen recorder - mess with audio input / system audio - accidentally capture your messy tabs or notifications - re-record because you forgot to hide something sensitive - open a separate editor just to crop, zoom, or add a simple arrow After doing this a few too many times, I realized I was spending way more time fighting tools than making the actual demo. And most of my needs were pretty simple: short…
Jan 2026 · screentell.com · its alternatives →
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Tabs, splits, and tmux work fine until you have several projects open with logs, tests, and long-running shells. I kept rebuilding context instead of resuming work. Horizon puts shells on an infinite canvas. You can arrange them into workspaces and reopen later with layout, scrollback, and history intact. Built in 3 days with Claude/Codex, dogfooding the workflow as I went. Feedback and contributions welcome.
Mar 2026 · 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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Terminal user interfaces in Ruby. RatatuiRuby wraps Rust
Jan 2026 · ratatui-ruby.dev · its alternatives →
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LinkShell▲74Control your AI terminal sessions from your phone.
Apr 2026 · liutianjie.github.io · its alternatives →
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Easy Scribe▲139Generate rich documentation, walkthroughs, and guides from screen recordings.
2025 · easyscribe.guide · its alternatives →
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So, I was about 11 years old and just got my first Mac, a IIsi, and of course everyone had AfterDark, but there was this other screensaver program called "Dark Side of the Mac". And within it was, I think now, the most beautiful screensaver ever written. It was called Kaos. Kaos would take anywhere from 10 to 30 seconds to slowly iterate on a single image, starting with a few colored dots and growing into webs within webs of algorithmic beauty. I'm not sure how Tom Dowdy actually wrote the program. What I've done here is to try to reverse engineer how it might have worked, but to animate it…
2025 · thestrikeagency.com · its alternatives →
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Godot-based Rust multi-PTY emulator desktop application - godot-pty/gpty
Sep 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Display websites through your screensaver
2015 · expireddomains.com · 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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Also compare
- Termtosvg – Record terminal sessions as SVG animations alternatives
- Bash Screensavers alternatives
- Warp, a Rust-based terminal alternatives
- TerminalWidget alternatives
- A Simple terminal-based video chat – renders in ASCII and has audio alternatives
- ttystudio – a terminal-to-gif recorder without the headaches alternatives
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