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24 alternatives to ASCII pixel art editor for the terminal

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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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   Image to ASCII▲105

   Make ASCII art for READMEs, Discord & creative visuals

   Sep 2026 · imagetoascii.art · its alternatives →

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   Bob-editor – create and edit ASCII art graphically▲6

   2024 · ivanceras.github.io · its alternatives →

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   Monodraw▲160

   Powerful ASCII art editor designed for the Mac

   2015 · monodraw.helftone.com · its alternatives →

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   Aseprite▲116

   Animated sprite editor and pixel art tool

   2017 · aseprite.org · its alternatives →

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   I built an offline, open‑source desktop Pixel Art Editor in Python▲214

   It requires no registration, no installation, and no configuration. Just run it on any computer and start drawing freely.

   2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   Make 8-Bit Art!▲107

   An in-browser canvas tool for making retro art.

   2014 · make8bitart.com · its alternatives →

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   Pixelapse▲142

   Visual version control for designers

   2014 · its alternatives →

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   Vixl44 – Create pixel art inside your terminal using vim movements▲62

   Create pixel art inside your terminal using vim movements - sebashwa/vixl44

   2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   Asciimatics: a cross-platform terminal animation/drawing library▲21

   A cross platform package to do curses-like operations, plus higher level APIs and widgets to create text UIs and ASCII art animations - peterbrittain/asciimatics

   2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Fulvid▲86

    A standalone desktop editor for Markdown and MDX

    Sep 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    I made a CLI tool that turns pixels into emojis▲105

    Takes a folder of images (as a palette), and an image, and figures out how to tile the palette to resemble the image! - ahhhh6980/Mosaic

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    GIF to ASCII Art▲9

    2023 · gifcii.fun · its alternatives →

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    ASCII Art Paint▲150

    Surprise your readers with an original post using text art

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Monodraw (Beta)▲42

    Create beautiful ASCII text art

    2014 · monodraw.helftone.com · its alternatives →

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    turn videos into ASCII art (open source, js+canvas)▲121

    This tool turns videos into ASCII pixel art. You can use your webcam feed or upload a video, then use the controls to adjust the colors, resolution, text style, etc. Github repo: https://github.com/collidingScopes/ascii It's built with javascript / html canvas. I'll be continuing to work on this, with the goal of improving performance (it can be laggy at high resolutions) and to also allow image input (turn an image into animated ASCII art). Please let me know of any feedback or suggestions!

    2024 · collidingscopes.github.io · its alternatives →

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    AsciiSketch a free browser-based ASCII art and diagram editor▲53

    Jan 2026 · files.littlebird.com.au · its alternatives →

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    Texttop▲80

    Interactive X linux desktop rendered to ASCII

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Pixel Art Editor built with ClojureScript/Om▲21

    2014 · jackschaedler.github.io · its alternatives →

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    I made a collaborative ASCII editor▲53

    I made a website for drawing ascii art with other people https://ascii-collab.app/ It's been online for a little over a year so there's a fair bit of stuff to browse if you want to look around (so much that I even made a poster https://ascii-collab.app/poster.png) There are other websites like yourworldoftext that do this but ascii-collab has some extra features like per-user undo/redo, box selection, a color highlight mode to see who made particular changes, and there's admin tools so I can remove spam. The code is open sourced here…

    2021 · its alternatives →

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    Pixlr▲8

    A free online image editor.

    2017 · pixlr.com · its alternatives →

21. 21PI
    Pixelmaker.io – generating images from icon fonts▲7

    2015 · pixelmaker.io · its alternatives →

22. 22TI
    tascii.io – a multiplayer ASCII character grid▲9

    2018 · tascii.io · its alternatives →

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    KakwaFont, another 12px monospace bitmap font for terminals▲5

    2016 · kakwa.github.io · its alternatives →

24. 24EC
    Ezbitmap.com, create beautiful images from ASCII art▲6

    2022 · ezbitmap.com · its alternatives →

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