Codepng Alternatives

Codepng is described as 'Allows you to create awesome snapshots from your source code that you can share on social media. Choose between beautiful hand-selected background gradients and editor themes before exporting your code to PNG images' and is an app in the development category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Codepng for a variety of platforms, including Web-based, Mac, Linux, Self-Hosted and Windows apps. The best Codepng alternative is GitHub Gist, which is free. Other great apps like Codepng are Carbon, Karbonized, Ray.so and Opengist.

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  1. GitHub Gist icon
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    Gist is a simple way to share snippets and pastes with others. All gists are git repositories, so they are automatically versioned, forkable and usable as a git repository.

    96 GitHub Gist alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
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  2. Carbon icon
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    You know all of those code screenshots you see on Twitter? Although the code's usually impressive, we saw room for improvement in the aesthetic department. Carbon is the easiest way to create beautiful images of your source code. So what are you waiting for?

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Online
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  3. Karbonized icon
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    Make awesome images of your code or your screenshots.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
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  4. Ray.so icon
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    Web-based tool for generating customizable screenshots from source code, supporting syntax highlighting, dark and light modes, color and padding adjustments, high resolution, several export options, background transparency, and instant preview for sharing.

    21 Ray.so alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Online
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  5. Opengist icon
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    Opengist is a self-hosted pastebin powered by Git. All snippets are stored in a Git repository and can be

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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
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  6. CodeSnap.dev icon
     1 like

    An image editor for developers, who want to share beautiful images of their code.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  7. termshot icon
     1 like

    Captures terminal output as high-fidelity images directly from the command line, interprets ANSI codes for accurate colors and styles, and produces UI-like PNG screenshots ideal for documentation, tutorials, or sharing CLI results on Unix-like systems.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Homebrew
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  8. Drift icon
     2 likes

    Drift is a self-hostable clone of GitHub Gist .

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
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  9. Kod.so icon
     3 likes

    A tool for converting code snippets into screenshots with API support.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Online
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  10. Codeimg icon
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    Create and share beautiful images of your source code.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
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  11. CodeGraphics icon
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    Create and post your beautiful source code on socials.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  12. Snippet is a developer tool for sharing code images. It offers customization options for window, text editor, background, and aspect ratio. You can customize the title, icon, appearance, controls, opacity, and padding.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
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