asciinema
Web app for hosting asciicasts.
Description from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Still maintained? Yes: 75 commits in the last 90 days, latest release v20260626 (Jun 2026).
Comparisons in Miscellaneous: ChatGPT alternatives, DeepL alternatives.
At a glance
asciinema quick facts
- Health score
- 94/100 GOOD
- Stars
- 2,504
- Last commit
- 3 months ago (Aug 2026)
- Latest release
- v20260626, Jun 2026
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
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In its own words
The project's README opens: "asciinema server is a server-side component of the asciinema ecosystem."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
asciinema scores 94/100, #14 of 77 in Miscellaneous: 75 commits in the last 90 days earn 35.0 of 35 points, the latest release (v20260626, 4 months ago) earns 25.0 of 25, 2,504 stars add 13.6 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and Docker support adds the final 10. That places it in the good band (70 and above). The biggest shortfall is star count, worth 6.4 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity 35.0 / 35
75 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 25.0 / 25
v20260626 released 4 months ago
- Stars biggest shortfall 13.6 / 20
2.5k stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support 10.0 / 10
Docker image or Compose file available
Commit activity
- 75
- Last 90 days
- 473
- Last 12 months
- 3 months ago
- Last push
Ranked #14 of 77 tools in Miscellaneous by health , between 2FAuth (#13) and LubeLogger (#15) .
Details
| Licence | Apache-2.0 |
| Platforms | Elixir, Docker |
| Latest release | v20260626 · 4 months ago |
| Stars | 2,504 |
| Open issues | 3 |
| Docker | Yes |
| Repository | asciinema/asciinema-server ↗ |
asciinema vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a category with asciinema (Miscellaneous), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| penpot | 99 | 62k | MPL-2.0 | today |
| Reactive Resume | 99 | 45k | MIT | today |
| Anubis | 98 | 24k | MIT | yesterday |
| Infisical Community Edition | 98 | 30k | MIT | today |
| ConvertX | 97 | 19k | AGPL-3.0 | 2 days ago |
| asciinema (this tool) | 94 | 2.5k | Apache-2.0 | 3 months ago |
asciinema: common questions
Is asciinema still maintained?
asciinema had 75 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was 3 months ago; the latest tagged release, v20260626, is from 4 months ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.
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