Asciinema vs Stream

Asciinema vs Stream: What are the differences?

Asciinema: Record and share your terminal sessions, the right way. Asciinema is a free and open source solution for recording the terminal sessions and sharing them on the web; Stream: Build scalable feeds, activity streams & chat in a few hours instead of months. Stream allows you to build scalable feeds, activity streams, and chat. Stream’s simple, yet powerful API’s and SDKs are used by some of the largest and most popular applications for feeds and chat. SDKs available for most popular languages.

Asciinema can be classified as a tool in the "Terminal Recording" category, while Stream is grouped under "Activity Feeds as a Service".

Some of the features offered by Asciinema are:

• Simple recording - Record right where you work - in a terminal.
• Copy & Paste - Any time you see a command you'd like to try in your own terminal just pause the player and copy-paste the content you want. It's just a text after all!
• Embedding - Easily embed an asciicast player in your blog post, project documentation page or in your conference talk slides.

On the other hand, Stream provides the following key features:

• Activity, Notification & Personalized Feeds
• Real-Time Chat
• Multi-Region Support

Asciinema is an open source tool with 1.45K GitHub stars and 181 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Asciinema's open source repository on GitHub.