Terminalizer records your terminal and generates animated gif images or lets you share a web player link.
Terminalizer offers a good range of features although compression is currently missing.
Terminalizer is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Highly customizable.
- Custom window frames.
- Custom font.
- Custom colors.
- Custom styles with CSS.
- Comes with predefined frames that you can use to make your GIF images look attractive.
- Add a watermark logo to your generated GIF images.
- Edit frames and adjust delays before rendering.
- Skipping frames by a step value to reduce the number of rendered frames.
- Render images with texts on them instead of capturing your screen for better quality.
- The ability to configure:
- The command to capture (bash, powershell.exe, yourOwnCommand, etc).
- The current working directory.
- Explicit values for the number of cols and rows.
- GIF quality and repeating.
- Frames delays.
- The max idle time between frames.
- Cursor style.
- Font.
- Font size.
- Line height.
- Letter spacing.
- Theme.
- Cross platform support – runs under Linux, MacOS, and Windows.
Website: github.com/faressoft/terminalizer
Support:
Developer: Mohammad Anas Fares and contributors
License: MIT License

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