terminalrecorder

Run a command.
Get a video.

A small CLI that watches a real terminal session — including what you type — and renders the interaction as a styled MP4.

Download for macOS arm64 Linux x64 Linux arm64

Free · open source · direct download · no account

$ ./tc "ping google.com"
capturing stdin and stdout...
wrote tc-a7f3k2.mp4

What it does

Runs your command in a PTY, captures terminal input and output with timing, then renders the session with a prompt, path, ANSI colours, Unicode and a clean terminal window.

Two-stage workflow

For short commands, use one command. For long jobs, capture to an event log first and render later — recording and encoding stay independent.

Use it

chmod +x terminalrecorder-macos-arm64
./terminalrecorder-macos-arm64 "ping google.com"

# or capture and render separately
./tc capture -o session.events "tree"
./tc render -o session.mp4 session.events

Before you download

The macOS build is not notarized. If Gatekeeper blocks it, allow it from System Settings → Privacy & Security or run xattr -d com.apple.quarantine ./tc after downloading.

The bundled encoder is included in the macOS Apple Silicon build. Linux builds use an ffmpeg executable available on your PATH.

terminalrecorder does not upload command text, terminal output or recordings. The command itself may access the network, just as it would when run directly.