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24 alternatives to I made a CLI tool that turns pixels into emojis
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
This is a command-line tool that converts pixel images into emoji representations. It's designed for developers and anyone interested in ASCII art alternatives. The tool takes image files and translates their visual… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. I made a CLI tool that turns pixels into emojis launched in 2022; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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This demo allows you to recreate images using emojis. You can provide images or emojis to paint with, and it will attempt to recreate images using emojis. Much of the code is adopted from the Paint Transformer (https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.03798) paper. In this code base, I treat emojis like “brushes”, and use a Gumbel Softmax-based lookup to choose an emoji to paste to the canvas during training (similar to how attention uses a softmax to select keys during training).
Dec 2025 · replicate.com · its alternatives →
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Emoji Mosaic▲123Upload any photo and convert it to an emoji portrait.
2015 · ericandrewlewis.github.io · its alternatives →
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Emoji to Scale▲713Your favorite emojis. To scale (more or less).
2021 · javier.xyz · its alternatives →
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2012 · dchang.mit.edu · its alternatives →
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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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Replace your photo pixels with Emojis
2017 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Get :100: turned into 💯 everywhere on your Mac
2016 · joelcalifa.com · 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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A 200 something line Swift Playground for rendering images as emojis - gabrieloc/emojivision
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2020 · emojitype.space · its alternatives →
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NeatEmoji▲113Chrome extension that converts text to emoji anywhere
2024 · neatrat.com · its alternatives →
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