Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Asky
ASCII art as a service ᕙ(⇀‸↼‶)ᕗ
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Asky launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Turn any Instagram picture into impressive ASCII art
2016 · thought.ai · its alternatives →
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Image to ASCII▲105Make ASCII art for READMEs, Discord & creative visuals
Sep 2026 · imagetoascii.art · its alternatives →
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ASCII Cats▲97Artwork created using keyboard symbols and characters
2021 · user.xmission.com · its alternatives →
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The internet's number one source for emoji oil paintings
2015 · its alternatives →
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ASCII Art Paint▲150Surprise your readers with an original post using text art
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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𝑳𝒆𝒕'𝒔 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒖𝒔𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔… #famouslastwords
2014 · qaz.wtf · its alternatives →
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2012 · dchang.mit.edu · its alternatives →
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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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