Turn a sequence diagram into an animated GIF. List your actors, write one line per message, and slicerflow draws the lifelines and plays each message back in order — then exports a GIF, PNG or JPEG.
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# one line per message — animated in order title: Login Flow sequence: actors: [user, app, api, db] steps: - "user -> app: click login" - "app -> api: POST /login" - "api -> db: SELECT user" - "db --> api: row" - "api --> app: 200 + token" - "app --> user: welcome!"
Paste this in the studio's Code tab → Export → GIF.
Describe the conversation once and slicerflow turns it into an animated, easy-to-follow exchange.
Name the participants — user, app, api, db — and slicerflow draws a lifeline for each.
One line per message, like user -> api: login. Solid for calls, dashed for replies.
Messages reveal in order down the lifelines, so the exchange reads step by step.
Export → GIF for the animation, or PNG / JPEG for a still.
sequenceDiagram in one pasteList your actors and write one line per message (for example user -> api: login). Each message reveals in order along the lifelines; then Export → GIF, PNG or JPEG.
Yes. Paste mermaid sequenceDiagram syntax into Import and slicerflow converts it into an animated sequence diagram you can export as a GIF.
Yes — slicerflow is free and open source, needs no account, and runs entirely in your browser.
Yes. Messages play back one at a time down the lifelines, so the exchange reads like a story instead of a static wall of arrows.
Write the messages, play them back, and export a GIF — free.