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24 alternatives to ASCII Charts

Nice-looking lightweight ASCII line charts generator for iOS

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. ASCII Charts launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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Generate ASCII Charts on iOS▲10
After having seen some charts made with text, I had the urge to create a chart generator that could run on iOS. After having converted the great asciichart from Python to Swift, I've created a small utility app using SwiftUI & SwiftData. Here is an example of chart generated from the app: 18┼╮ 17┤│ 15┤╰╮ 14┤ │ ╭╮╭╮ 12┤ ╰──╯│││ 10┤ ╰╯╰╮ 8,8┤ │ ╭╮ ╭╴ 7,2┤ │ ╭─╮╭╯╰╮│ 5,6┤ ╰╮╭╯ ││ ││ 4┤ ││ ╰╯ ╰╯ 2,5┼ ╰╯ Would be happy to answer your questions & suggestions!
2023 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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ASCII line chart with console, HTML and image outputs, written in PHP▲74
Nice looking versatile ASCII linegraph written in PHP - noximo/PHP-colored-ascii-linechart
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
3
MRRArt Pro▲568
Create beautiful text charts (ascii) from your data
2023 · mrrartpro.com · its alternatives →
4
asciibar▲90
ASCII bar chart generator
2024 · asciibar.ozbot.si · its alternatives →
5
Chartgenie Graph and Chart Maker▲99
Easily create and share beautiful charts and graphs
2024 · chartgenie.io · its alternatives →
6
Visual Chart▲64
Charting app for iPhone & iPad
2018 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
7
Mark▲358
Create flowcharts & diagrams in seconds powered by AI
2017 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
8MA
Mermaid ASCII Diagrams▲234
2024 · mermaid-ascii.art · its alternatives →
9TM
Typograms, Markdown-like renderer for ASCII diagrams▲140
2022 · code.sgo.to · its alternatives →
10
Ascii_tree – A way to create beautiful ASCII trees▲79
Create beautiful ascii trees. Contribute to spandanb/asciitree development by creating an account on GitHub.
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
11AT
Ascii to SVG▲416
2016 · ivanceras.github.io · its alternatives →
12CP
Choose Photo. Make Ascii▲116
2012 · dchang.mit.edu · its alternatives →
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ASCIIART GENERATOR▲12
Generate Colorful ASCII Art
2024 · its alternatives →
14
ASCII Prints▲169
ASCII art on your wall ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
2016 · its alternatives →
15
CalcGen AI▲123
Beautifully interactive data visualizations. One prompt.
2024 · welcome.calcgen.ai · its alternatives →
16DT
Dot-to-ASCII – Graphviz to ASCII Converter▲152
2019 · dot-to-ascii.ggerganov.com · its alternatives →
17
ASCII Art Paint▲150
Surprise your readers with an original post using text art
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
18
Viz▲71
Create simple graph charts instantly
2014 · its alternatives →
19
Tufte▲87
CDN and Node package to generate ASCII graphs inline
Jun 2026 · tufte.ai · its alternatives →
20
ASCII Cats▲97
Artwork created using keyboard symbols and characters
2021 · user.xmission.com · its alternatives →
21
Vizable▲99
Turn your data into beautiful, interactive graphs on iOS.
2016 · its alternatives →
22
ASCII Drawing Board▲121
I've made an ASCII drawing board. You can set any brush, canvas size, export art as a text file. I want to keep it as manual/analog as possible, hence there is no tool for converting image to ASCII. Prompting LLMs to draw ASCII art turned out to be a difficult task . So instead I decided to ask it make a drawing board. Wihtout coding agent I wouldn't even try myself. Although it is an interesting task, it would drift me away. Basically it's just a drawing board with endless variations of textures and brushes: when you make large canvas and zoom out you don't see ASCII anymore, but…
2025 · delopsu.com · its alternatives →
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Text2Infographic▲171
AI infographic generator
2024 · text2infographic.com · its alternatives →
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ASCIImator▲79
A simple photo app that converts images into ASCII art
2015 · its alternatives →

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