# asciinema

9 Hacker News commenters recommended asciinema and 0 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 7 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** People recommend asciinema as a good, professional way to record and share terminal sessions. The most common caveat is that it needs a JS player, so GitHub READMEs won't show it as a native image.

## Why people recommend it

- Good, professional terminal recording tool (3 comments): "Have you heard the good news about the terminal savior asciinema" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48532584)) "asciinema is so good! Love seeing the player on the site." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49276460)) "the asciinema is really good and very professional" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46586241))
- Gets the job done (2 comments): "I'm flattered that Rodrigo considers asciinema as a potentially useful tool for this problem." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48284950)) "asciinema should do the job." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46300871))

## What people warn about

- Needs a JS player to render (1 comments): "asciinema needs a JS player to render, GitHub READMEs don't support it as a native image" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47167384))
- File conversion is annoying (1 comments): "the conversion has been annoying a few times" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47279084))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [fzf](https://hackerapproved.com/p/fzf.md): 78 recommend
- [jq](https://hackerapproved.com/p/jq.md): 75 recommend
- [grep](https://hackerapproved.com/p/grep.md): 65 recommend
- [Atuin](https://hackerapproved.com/p/atuin.md): 63 recommend
- [GitHub CLI](https://hackerapproved.com/p/github-cli.md): 49 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "asciinema", https://hackerapproved.com/p/asciinema/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).