asciinema
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
4recommend
0warn against
Dec 17, 2025first mention
Aug 25, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“the good news about the terminal savior asciinema”
“https://asciinema.org/ in case anyome is searching it.”
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“What was wrong with https://asciinema.org/ ?”
“asciinema should do the job. It has GIF generation support via its 'agg' tool”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
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Also written as Asciinema. Data: asciinema.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 10
“There are already ton of solutions to this, like https://asciinema.org/”
“instruction to run Asciinema alongside it”
“the good news about the terminal savior asciinema”
“https://asciinema.org/ in case anyome is searching it.”
“https://asciinema.org/a/746358”
Like this https://asciinema.org/a/377532 ? :)
“What was wrong with https://asciinema.org/ ?”
“Think Asciinema, but for full coding sessions”
“Sounds kind of like https://asciinema.org/ (which I've never used, but it seems cool).”
“asciinema should do the job. It has GIF generation support via its 'agg' tool”