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24 alternatives to CASCII
Web-based ASCII diagram builder
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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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 →
- 2CP
A free, open-source ASCII diagram builder written in vanilla Javascript
2025 · cascii.app · its alternatives →
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Render 3D models (OBJ, glTF, GLB, STL, .vox) as ASCII art — in the browser, in React or Vue, or straight in your terminal. A three.js-style API with no WebGL and no canvas: just text in a single <pre>.
Jun 2026 · glyphcss.com · its alternatives →
- 4AA
Jan 2026 · files.littlebird.com.au · its alternatives →
- 5TM
2022 · code.sgo.to · its alternatives →
- 6MA
2024 · mermaid-ascii.art · 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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ASCII Art Paint▲150Surprise your readers with an original post using text art
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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ASCII Charts▲158Nice-looking lightweight ASCII line charts generator for iOS
2023 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! I'm Zach from Adam (https://adam.new/). We’re building an AI co-pilot for mechanical CAD software. As part of our broader research, we built a browser-based Text-to-CAD app (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44182206) and are now open sourcing it. This is a React SPA with a Supabase backend. What it does: * Generates parametric 3D models from natural language descriptions, with support for both text prompts and image references * Outputs OpenSCAD code with automatically extracted parameters that surface as interactive sliders for instant dimension…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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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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Nice looking versatile ASCII linegraph written in PHP - noximo/PHP-colored-ascii-linechart
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 13ATAscii to SVG▲416
2016 · ivanceras.github.io · its alternatives →
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Create interactive data tables in seconds with Tabulator. A free, open source, fully featured JavaScript table / data grid generation library.
2018 · tabulator.info · its alternatives →
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Ferrite: Fast Markdown/Text/Code editor in Rust with native Mermaid diagrams Built a Markdown editor using Rust + egui. v0.2.1 just dropped with major Mermaid improvements: → Native Mermaid diagrams - Flowcharts, sequence, state, ER, git graphs - pure Rust, no JS → Split view - Raw + rendered side-by-side with sync scrolling → Syntax highlighting - 40+ languages with large file optimization → JSON/YAML/TOML tree viewer - Structured editing with expand/collapse → Git integration - File tree shows modified/staged/untracked status Also: minimap, zen mode,…
Jan 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 16CP
2012 · dchang.mit.edu · its alternatives →
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ASCII Cats▲97Artwork created using keyboard symbols and characters
2021 · user.xmission.com · its alternatives →
- 18IM
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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We needed a JS-first WYSIWYG DOCX editor and couldn't find a solid OSS option, most were either commercial or abandoned. As an experiment, we gave Claude Code the OOXML spec, a concrete editor architecture, and a Playwright-based test suite. The agent iterated in a (Ralph) loop over a few nights and produced a working editor from scratch. Core text editing works today. Tables and images are functional but still incomplete. MIT licensed.
Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Esolang inspired by ASCII art. Contribute to aaronjanse/asciidots development by creating an account on GitHub.
2017 · github.com · 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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Tufte▲87CDN and Node package to generate ASCII graphs inline
Jun 2026 · tufte.ai · its alternatives →
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