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24 alternatives to ASCII Tree Editor

Show HN: ASCII Tree Editor I've created a web-based editor for ASCII file directory trees called asciitreeman. It's designed to make it easier to edit and reorganize the output of the tree command. You can try it out here: https://reorx.github.io/asciitreeman/ And the source code is on GitHub: https://github.com/reorx/asciitreeman Some of the key features include visual tree editing with drag-and-drop-like operations, real-time sync where changes are immediately reflected in the ASCII output, keyboard shortcuts for navigation (J/K or arrow keys),…

ASCII Tree Editor is a web-based tool for editing and reorganizing ASCII file directory trees generated by the tree command. It offers visual tree editing with drag-and-drop operations, keyboard navigation shortcuts… 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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    Create beautiful ascii trees. Contribute to spandanb/asciitree development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    This started as a hard requirement for my TUI-based editor application, it ended up going in a few different directions. A suite of tools that help with semantic code entities: https://github.com/odvcencio/gts-suite A next-gen version control system called Got: https://github.com/odvcencio/got I think this has some pretty big potential! I think there's many classes of application (particularly legacy architecture) that can benefit from these kinds of analysis tooling. My next post will be about composing all these together, an exciting project I call…

    Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    An online tree-like utility for generating ASCII folder structure diagrams. Written in TypeScript and React.

    2019 · tree.nathanfriend.io · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN, (First time poster!) I'm the author of `lstr`. I've always loved the classic Linux `tree` command for its simplicity, but I often found myself wanting more modern features like interactivity and Git integration. So, I decided to build my own version in Rust with a philosophy of being fast, minimalist, and interactive. It was also an excuse to help learn more about Rust\! Here's a quick look at the interactive mode: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bgreenwell/lstr/main/asset... I've just released v0.2.0 with some features I think this community might find…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Generate ASCII directory tree from any folder

    2024 · asciifolders.com · its alternatives →

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    Program to convert lines of text into a tree structure. - birchb1024/frangipanni

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Transform ASCII trees into real-world directory structures

    2024 · npmjs.com · its alternatives →

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    Treee▲71

    A tree-structured text editor

    2020 · its alternatives →

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    Edit web apps visually in the Cursor Browser

    Dec 2025 · cursor.com · its alternatives →

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    touch screen tree editor concept. Contribute to hcs64/tiramisu development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    3 months ago I wanted to draw an ASCII diagram to include in some documentation at work. I found the few tools online to be insufficient, and was suprised there wasn't a more complete tool to get the job done. Since, I've built Cascii from scratch in vanilla Javascript (I'm not an FE dev, it might be obvious...). I hope it works alright. Please check out the live version at https://cascii.app, report problems, make diagrams to improve your code's documentation. Hope you enjoy using it.

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    I use interactive rebase quite often, and particularly like the editor bundled with IntelliJ. But I do not always work with IntelliJ, and am not 'fluent' with Vim, so I tried to replicate roughly the same rebase experience within a TUI. I used a small TUI OCaml project i made last year. The notable features are: - Move commits up and down, fixup, drop - Rename commits from the editor (without having to stop for a reword during the rebase run) - Visualize modified files along commits - 'Explode' a commit ,creating a commit for each modified file (a thing I found myself doing quite often)…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A-Tree▲64

    Tree view for all Github users

    2021 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →

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    Edit HTML files visually. Contribute to urin/vscode-web-visual-editor development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    node-based editor for exploring, analyzing and transforming data without code

    2021 · datablocks.pro · its alternatives →

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    Generate ASCII folder trees with live preview, free

    Aug 2026 · webtools.mzift.com · its alternatives →

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    GUI disk analyzers are great for figuring out what's filling up your laptop/desktop drive. On containers or remote servers, the options are limited to purely text based utilities (e.g. du) or list-centric TUIs (e.g. ncdu) which are usually limited to viewing one directory at a time. I created leaves to fill that gap. Inspired by classic utilities like WinDirStat and KDirStat, it uses a 2-dimensional treemap^1 visualization to show the entire directory hierarchy with proportionally sized rectangles. It's performant enough to handle millions of files, thanks to Rust and multi-threading.…

    Jul 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hello HN. This is my first webapp. It works like a pastebin, in which you can visually keep track of the changes you and others make to it. I was a little reluctant about posting it here because I'm not sure it meets the HN quality standards, but, as a beginner, I would really appreciate to have some feedback and/or tips. The url is: http://srctree.net/ An example of usage: http://srctree.net/1 Thanks!

    2012 · srctree.net · its alternatives →

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    I set about coding my own version of the classic MS-DOS EDIT.COM for GNU/Linux systems four years ago and it this is where the project is at... still rough around the edges but works well with Termux! :) Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7bneUX_kVA

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    I've been building a tool that changes how LLM coding agents explore codebases, and I wanted to share it along with some early observations. Typically claude code globs directories, greps for patterns, and reads files with minimal guidance. It works in kind of the same way you'd learn to navigate a city by walking every street. You'll eventually build a mental map, but claude never does - at least not any that persists across different contexts. The Recursive Language Models paper from Zhang, Kraska, and Khattab at MIT CSAIL introduced a cleaner framing. Instead of cramming everything into…

    Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    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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