Create beautiful animated code snippet videos for free
Layers is a free web-based tool that empowers anyone to create beautiful, animated code snippet videos. Inspired by sites like Carbon, Layers features a customizable code editor, support for popular languages, various aspect ratios, and texture super sampling for high-resolution animations. With Layers, you can also adjust the orientation and perspective of your code snippets, allowing for dramatic compositions that can be used for more advanced editing, motion graphics, and content creation.
This is really useful for YouTube creators who make coding tutorials — animated snippets look way better than static screenshots. Does it support exporting as GIF or only MP4?
About Layers on Product Hunt
“Create beautiful animated code snippet videos for free”
Layers launched on Product Hunt on May 27th, 2026 and earned 103 upvotes and 13 comments, placing #8 on the daily leaderboard. Layers is a free web-based tool that empowers anyone to create beautiful, animated code snippet videos. Inspired by sites like Carbon, Layers features a customizable code editor, support for popular languages, various aspect ratios, and texture super sampling for high-resolution animations. With Layers, you can also adjust the orientation and perspective of your code snippets, allowing for dramatic compositions that can be used for more advanced editing, motion graphics, and content creation.
On the analytics side, Layers competes within Developer Tools, Animation and Video — topics that collectively have 517.2k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Layers performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Layers?
Layers was hunted by Sebastian Ko. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of Layers including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
Sebastian Ko
This is really useful for YouTube creators who make coding tutorials — animated snippets look way better than static screenshots. Does it support exporting as GIF or only MP4?