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Few months ago I was desperate for a tool that recorded the terminal and allowed me to save the animation as a GIF. While asciinema (at least at that time) didn’t have any straightforward way to do this, I looked elsewhere and found https://gifox.io and must admit have been very impressed with it.

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You can use https://github.com/asciinema/asciicast2gif to turn asciicast into GIF animation.

Ignoring the terminal capture for a moment and focussing on the gif part: how does it compare to LICEcap? I haven't used it in a while but development seems to have resumed[0].

On Linux, there is also peek[1], and on Windows, there is ScreenToGif[2]. Both are open source.

Another option is to use screencasting software like OBS Studio[3] (and for Linux, I highly recommend SimpleScreenRecorder[4]) to get a high-quality video capture, then throwing it through gifski[5] to get really high quality GIFs.

Especially if you plan on uploading to a gif-site you might as well just capture video and upload that - they tend to do gif-conversion themselves these days.

[0] https://www.cockos.com/licecap/

[1] https://github.com/phw/peek

[2] http://www.screentogif.com/

[3] https://obsproject.com/

[4] http://www.maartenbaert.be/simplescreenrecorder/

[5] https://gif.ski/

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