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Dev tools · March 5, 2021

Visual Source

Mesmerizing source code history visualization service

Visual Source launched on March 5, 2021 with 66 votes, #964 of 3,696 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 5 years on.

What it does

Mesmerizing Source Code History Visualization. Create beautiful motivational videos for your team through source code history visualization. Easy to use, zero configuration & videos can be generated in minutes.

Watch your codebase come to life — an animated source code visualization of your Git history, contributor by contributor. Try any repo with a free 10-second sample, no credit card.

Turn any Git repository into a beautiful animated video showing how the codebase grew, contributor by contributor, commit by commit. Free watermarked sample of any repo. Pro adds automatic weekly & monthly videos, posted to Slack . GitHub users and organizations with the most visualizations on the site. Sign in with your GitHub account. We only need read access to the repos you want to visualize. Choose any repository — yours, your team’s, or a public OSS project you love. Share or embed your video anywhere — and on Pro, get a fresh one every week or month, auto-posted tofrom visualsource.net

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