terminal recorder Archives

14 Best Free and Open Source Terminal Session Recording

Console screencast software (also known as terminal recorder) lets you capture your terminal. Here’s our verdict.

script is a tool that makes a typescript of everything displayed on your terminal. It is useful for students who need a hardcopy record.

IPBT (It’s Play-Back Time) is a curses-based playback utility for recordings of terminal sessions in either ttyrec or nh-recorder format.

Shelr is a utility that provides plain text screencasts for shell ‘ninjas’. This tool lets you record/replay and publish your terminal.

TermRecord is a simple, free and open source, terminal session recorder with easy-to-share self-contained HTML output.

tty2gif is a solution to record scripts and their outputs into both binary and gif formats. tty2gif can also convert an exist binary file.

termrec is software for recording “videos” of terminal output. Provides utilities: termrec, termplay, proxyrec, termtime, and termcat.

ttyrec is a tty recorder. Recorded data can be played back with the included ttyplay command. ttyrec is a fork of the script command.

Showterm is a utility that lets you record a terminal session exactly as you experience it, right down to the syntax highlighting.

ttystudio is an excellent open source terminal-to-gif recorder. It outputs GIFs or APNGs without any external dependencies or GUI playback.

termtosvg is a terminal recorder that renders your command line sessions as standalone SVG animations. termtosvg is written in Python.

Terminalizer records your terminal and generates animated gif images or lets you share a web player link.

asciinema (formerly known as ascii.io) is a solution for recording terminal sessions and sharing them on the web.