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24 alternatives to ANSI-Saver – A macOS Screensaver
Hi, I've been working on something I've been thinking for long time but since I had no experience with macOS screen savers I always posponed. Now thanks to Claude I was able to create a screensaver that scroll ANSI files while your computer is idle. It allow to use local ANS files or packs directly from 16colo.rs. Repo: https://github.com/lardissone/ansi-saver
ANSI-Saver is a macOS screensaver that displays scrolling ANSI art files when your computer is idle. Users can load local ANS files or retrieve art packs directly from 16colo.rs, a collection site for ANSI art. The… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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I've been working on an ANSI art editor off and on for a while. It works like a traditional ANSI text editor, except it supports 256 colors, Unicode and CP437 encoding, frame-based animation, custom UI themes, terminal mouse input, HTML and IRC color output, and runs in Utf-8 terminals. It's written in Python and curses, and is fairly portable across Unix systems. If you have ever used TheDraw or Aciddraw, the user interface is similar. It can also load/convert, view, edit and save most CP437 (MS-DOS style) ANSI art in a Utf-8 terminal, so you can view ANSI artscene packs in the comfort…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2012 · atdt.github.com · its alternatives →
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My love letter to ANSI art. Full width rendering, scrolling by baud rate, text is selectable, and more. There are some example links at the top if you're feeling lucky.
Mar 2026 · sure.is · its alternatives →
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Use live streams as screensavers/lock screens on MacOS - hauxir/macos-live-screensaver
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Screensavers for your terminal. Contribute to cxreiff/ttysvr development by creating an account on GitHub.
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Build terminal dashboards using ascii/ansi art and javascript - yaronn/blessed-contrib
2015 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Beautiful, useful, and funny designer screensavers.
2016 · its alternatives →
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A tool that lets you render beautiful graphics in both modern and classic terminal environments; this is the version 1.0 release announcement.
2019 · hpjansson.org · its alternatives →
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So, I was about 11 years old and just got my first Mac, a IIsi, and of course everyone had AfterDark, but there was this other screensaver program called "Dark Side of the Mac". And within it was, I think now, the most beautiful screensaver ever written. It was called Kaos. Kaos would take anywhere from 10 to 30 seconds to slowly iterate on a single image, starting with a few colored dots and growing into webs within webs of algorithmic beauty. I'm not sure how Tom Dowdy actually wrote the program. What I've done here is to try to reverse engineer how it might have worked, but to animate it…
2025 · thestrikeagency.com · its alternatives →
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Artpacks act as an archive of the BBS, ANSI and ASCII art scenes, from 1990 to present. Artpacks are recognized as one of the primary reasons that the early computer art scene is so well preserved and documented in relation to other underground computer scenes at the time.
2015 · artpacks.org · its alternatives →
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A modern BBS. Contribute to ansiwave/ansiwave development by creating an account on GitHub.
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Get any text on your screen into your clipboard. Contribute to schappim/macOCR development by creating an account on GitHub.
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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ScreenVeil▲86Hide what shouldn’t be seen on your computer
May 2026 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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A Mac screensaver for counting down to a date
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A github project to collect a bunch of bash-based screensavers/visualizations.
Oct 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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MacOS screensaver that displays the time using 24 clocks
2022 · amiantos.s3.amazonaws.com · its alternatives →
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It's a macOS menu bar app that reads the text of your focused window every few seconds through the Accessibility API. No screenshots, no video, or OCR. It writes plain markdown, one file per day, into a folder you choose. Point Claude Code (or anything with file access) at the folder and ask "what did I work on Tuesday?" or have it build memory about your projects. The folder contains an AGENTS.md explaining the format to the model. Thought it might be useful for someone so chucked it up on GitHub
Aug 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I made this tool to add support for custom ANSI palettes to kubetail (https://github.com/kubetail-org/kubetail). Maybe you'll find it useful too. Let me know if you have any suggestions!
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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