Template registry

The same recording,
in every look.

reel renders terminal recordings into polished, shareable videos — templates decide the look: window chrome, colors, background, motion, sound. Every preview below is the same demo recording wearing a different template. Click one to inspect the TOML behind it, copy a command to make it yours — and publishing your own is just a pull request.

(Publish your own) (Source code)

19 templates·11 sounds·re-rendered on every merge

Built into reel

minimal

High contrast, square corners, no chrome noise

glass

Soft gradient, rounded chrome, generous air

classic

Bare terminal, no chrome — for purists and docs embeds

geist

Pure black, Geist Mono, hairline border — deploy-preview energy

paper

Light background, for daytime documentation

crt

Phosphor glow, scanlines, vignette — the shareable one

aurora

Frosted glass over a radial glow — the showcase template

galfrevn/reel

Official starter pack — ships with the reel repo23

synthwave

Neon gradient, soft glow, retro without the scanline grit

slate

Muted dark slate with dot titlebar — docs-site sober

latte

Warm light mode with macOS chrome — READMEs that feel friendly

noir

Code on pure black inside a hairline frame — stark launch-tweet monochrome with hot pink accents

graphite

Charcoal card on charcoal — muted pastel syntax, quiet enough for serious docs

iris

Violet on deep blue-gray with a filed-away titlebar — the editor-tab look

ember

Everything burns red — grainy black-and-crimson monochrome for dramatic reveals

breeze

Blue-to-violet-to-pink gradient with macOS chrome — the classic code-screenshot look

candy

Pink-lavender-sky gradient, playful and bright — product-hunt launch energy

dusk

Warm sunset gradient fading to plum — golden-hour glow for launch posts

vercel

Black on black, hairline chrome, the ▲ prompt — deploy-announcement minimalism

glacier

Icy pale-blue light mode — crisp and cold for daylight docs

laser

A quick descending zap — deletions, dismissals, misses

tap

A single muted key tap, felt-dampened — minimal keyboard accents

thock

A deep, round key bottom-out — the satisfying low thock, very quiet

pop

A tiny bubble pop — hover, select, small UI responses

blip

A clean digital blip, one pixel of sound — cursor moves, focus changes

send

Two soft rising notes — submit, send, confirm without fanfare

step

The faintest metronome tick — loading beats, progress steps, spinners

ping

One clean glassy ping with a whisper of air — notifications, arrivals

hush

A soft low no — gentle dismissal or error, more sigh than buzzer

mouse-click

A crisp two-part button click — cursor actions, selections

snap

A dry finger snap — attention, beat marks, section changes

The same recording,in every look.