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Description:
Your CLI home video recorder

Type: Formula | Tracked Since: Dec 28, 2025

Links: Homepage | @charmcli | formulae.brew.sh

Category: Developer tools

Tags: recording cli automation gif video

Install: brew install vhs

About:
VHS is a tool for writing terminal recordings as code. It allows you to automate the process of capturing terminal output in a deterministic way. This is useful for generating GIFs, demos, and documentation directly from text-based configuration files.

Key Features:

Declarative configuration for terminal recordings
Automated GIF and video generation
Integration with CI/CD pipelines
Cross-platform support

Use Cases:

Creating animated GIFs for software documentation
Generating demo videos for release notes
Automating UI testing for terminal applications

Alternatives:

asciinema – Focuses on terminal session recording and playback, whereas VHS is designed for scripted generation of polished videos.
terminalizer – Provides a GUI and CLI for recording, while VHS relies entirely on a text-based scripting language.

Version History

Detected	Version	Rev	Change	Commit
Sep 16, 2025 12:54am		0	VERSION_BUMP	c714ba23
Sep 13, 2024 10:56am		0	VERSION_BUMP	fcc67b72