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A tool for generating terminal GIFs from code

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Terminal Gif Maker▲97
Creating code samples in simple terminal interface
2022
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Put “GIF” in front of any YouTube URL and hit enter▲577
2014 · gifyoutube.com
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Freeze▲118
Generate images of code and terminal output
2024
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Termtosvg – Record terminal sessions as SVG animations▲767
2018 · github.com
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Fig▲956
Autocomplete for the Terminal
2022 · fig.io
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Viphy▲192
Generate funny GIF videos from text in seconds
2021
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Drop to GIF▲425
Super simple movie to GIF conversion
2015
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Animated Favicon Generator▲349
Create distinctive, animated favicons from GIFs
2024
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GitDiagram▲356
Instantly visualize any codebase as an interactive diagram
2025
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Fig▲216
Visual apps and shortcuts for your terminal
2020
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Gitlogue – A terminal tool that replays your Git commits with animation▲159
Gitlogue is a CLI that turns your Git commits into a typing-style replay. It visualizes diffs line by line, shows the file tree, and plays back each edit as if it were typed in real time. Key points • Realistic typing animation • Syntax-highlighted diffs • File-tree view • Replay any commit • Self-contained CLI Demo video is in the README. Repo: https://github.com/unhappychoice/gitlogue
Nov 2025 · github.com
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Instantly visualize any codebase as an interactive diagram▲222
GitDiagram is an open-source micro dev-tool that I made this past week Given any public GitHub repository it generates diagrams in Mermaid.js with Claude 3.5 Sonnet I extract information from the file tree and README for details and interactivity (you can click components to be taken to relevant files and directories) Also, you can replace "hub" with "diagram" in any repository URL to access its diagram I created this because I wanted to contribute to open-source projects but quickly realized their codebases are too massive for me to dig through manually, so this helps me get started I do…
2024 · gitdiagram.com
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CONV.▲480
Convert YouTube video to MP3, GIF or MP4
2016
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Gifski▲570
Convert videos to high-quality GIFs
2018
15AS
A Simple terminal-based video chat – renders in ASCII and has audio▲375
2015 · github.com
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Gifable▲197
Super-simple screen recording tool that makes GIFs
2017
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Giphy Capture▲369
Turn anything on your screen into a GIF!
2016
18BT
Building terminal dashboards using ASCII/ANSI art and JavaScript▲305
2015 · github.com
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Stacc▲183
Tool for effectively converting videos to Gifs
2019
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Code Youtube▲114
Coding along with your tutorial
Oct 2025
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Gifox▲264
Delightful GIF Recording App for Mac
2016
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Tailspin – A Log File Highlighter▲139
There are multiple programs for working with log files, both inside and outside of the terminal. These tools are feature rich and functional and offer lots of control to the user. However, a lot of the time I found myself just opening raw log files in `less`. I enjoy the simplicity of quickly skimming through the logs, but it was difficult when the wall of text was in one color. For this reason, I created a command line tool called `tailspin` (the name is a take on the `tail` command) that did one thing: highlighting of log files. It is configurable, but requires no setup. It defaults to…
2023 · github.com
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Generate a video to animate stars of any GitHub repository▲42
I made this as a fun tiny project to experiment with Remotion [1] to generate videos. You can find the source code on GitHub [2]. [1] https://www.remotion.dev/ [2] https://github.com/scastiel/github-stars-video
2023 · scastiel.dev
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Gifit▲100
Simple GIF Maker: Use your camera or a video from your roll
2014

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