# Install codevis with Homebrew, Nix

Turns your code into one large image. Version 0.8.4 via Homebrew; verified from local package data. Also installable with nix: nix profile install nixpkgs#codevis.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:codevis
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install codevis
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#codevis
```

  Evidence: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/co/codevis/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:codevis
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.8.4
- **Source summary:** Turns your code into one large image
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/sloganking/codevis>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/sloganking/codevis>
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- codevis (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 0.8.4
## Project history and usage

codevis is a Rust CLI that renders source code and UTF-8 text files in a folder into a single image, using syntax highlighting where possible.

### Project history

The official repository presents codevis as a visualization utility rather than a language tool or build system. Its public GitHub metadata records the repository as created on January 17, 2022.

### Adoption history

The supplied package facts list codevis in Homebrew and Nix. That is consistent with a small, self-contained developer utility whose main packaging concern is exposing the codevis executable.

### How it is used

The README shows codevis being run with an input directory and optional output file, producing a PNG visualization of a repository or directory tree. It also points users to --help for the full CLI surface.

### Why package nerds care

codevis matters to package nerds as a compact example of a Rust visualization CLI distributed through cargo and system package managers, with no daemon, account, or runtime service attached.

### Timeline

- 2022: The official GitHub repository metadata records repository creation on January 17.
- README: codevis documents cargo installation and directory-to-image CLI usage.

### Related projects

- The README points to the author's related codemov video project and codevis-gui graphical interface.

### Sources

- <https://github.com/sloganking/codevis#readme>
- <https://api.github.com/repos/sloganking/codevis>


## Security Notes

broad file, network, media, or database tool signal.

- **Geiger risk:** blue / medium
- broad file, network, media, or database tool signal

## Other Package-Manager Records

- Nix - codevis: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/co/codevis/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/codevis.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/codevis.yml)


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph