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CLUSTER ANIMATED-COMMAND-CONVERTS · 5 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2016-09-15

Terminal session GIF recorders

This cluster consists of command-line tools that record terminal sessions and convert them into shareable animated GIFs or video clips. The dated entries appear sporadically from 2015 to 2024, with no clear trend across the five releases. All three traction leaders (autocast, vhs-bin, nodejs-terminalizer) currently show zero stars, indicating minimal adoption.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

AUG 2015: 1SEP 2016: 1AUG 2018: 1OCT 2022: 1JUL 2024: 1
AUG 2015JUL 2024

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 1 hand-coded · 4 unlabelled

Operator · 5 open source

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 5 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01autocast0★4 moliveopen sourceCommand-line tool that automates the creation of terminal demo recordings.
  2. 02nodejs-terminalizer0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceTerminal recorder that captures command-line sessions and converts them into animated GIF images for sharing.
  3. 03ttygif0★9 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceCommand-line utility that converts recorded terminal sessions into animated GIF images for sharing demonstrations.
  4. 04termrec0★3 yrabandonedliveopen sourceTool suite for recording and replaying text-terminal sessions from the command line.
  5. 05vhs-bin0★27 daysliveopen sourceCommand-line tool that records terminal sessions and converts them into shareable animated GIF or video clips.

Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.