Dev tools · alternatives · 2026

24 alternatives to Monodraw

Powerful ASCII art editor designed for the Mac

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Monodraw launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1
   Monodraw, an ASCII Art Editor for Mac▲141

   2015 · monodraw.com · its alternatives →

2. 2
   Monodraw for Mac, ASCII Art Editor – Beta Available▲18

   2015 · monodraw.helftone.com · its alternatives →

3. 3
   Monodraw (Beta)▲42

   Create beautiful ASCII text art

   2014 · monodraw.helftone.com · its alternatives →

4. 4
   Canvas▲251

   A DALL·E playground for the Mac

   2023 · kevinhermawan.com · its alternatives →

5. 5
   Macro▲149

   A super focused image editor for the Mac

   2017 · macroapp.co · its alternatives →

6. 6
   Monodraw - old school ASCII▲3

   Create RetroCode Comments & fast loading DotMatrix ASCII art

   2016 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

7. 7MI
   Mono Icons – A simple, consistent open-source icon set▲333

   2020 · icons.mono.company · its alternatives →

8. 8
   Left▲383

   A minimalist multi-platform text editor

   2018 · hundredrabbits.itch.io · its alternatives →

9. 9
   Retrotype▲218

   Feels like a real typewriter

   2025 · retrotype.ink · its alternatives →

10. 10
    Brackets 1.0▲190

    An open-source text editor for web designers by Adobe

    2014 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Airdraw▲269

    Hey Everyone! I wanted to show my passion project I made a few years back and recently turned into a web app. Airdraw is an app that takes in your hand gestures and converts it into real time drawing capabilities. There are tons of stuff I want to build with this, but most importantly just put it out into the world! Hope you all enjoy :) Tested on my MacOS with Chrome, Safari, and FF I included a link to the original GH project I wrote here - https://github.com/arefmalek/airdraw and a link to the blog where I explained how I made it here -…

    2023 · airdraw.io · its alternatives →

12. 12
    Pichon for Mac▲270

    Best design graphics at your fingertips, just drag and drop

    2021 · icons8.com · its alternatives →

13. 13
    Palette For Mac▲205

    A menu bar based colour contrast analyser

    2016 · often.studio · its alternatives →

14. 14
    ASCII pixel art editor for the terminal▲9

    feast your eyes

    May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

15. 15
    Flatdraw▲93

    Open-source canvas drawing web app with responsive UI

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

16. 16
    VidLab▲101

    A multi-track, multi-clip video editor for iOS

    2017 · its alternatives →

17. 17
    CotEditor▲102

    The free plain-text editor for OS X

    2014 · coteditor.com · its alternatives →

18. 18
    Art Text▲171

    Graphic design software for making artistic text effects.

    2017 · text.design · its alternatives →

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    Durdraw – a modern ANSI art editor for modern Unix terminals▲154

    I've been working on an ANSI art editor off and on for a while. It works like a traditional ANSI text editor, except it supports 256 colors, Unicode and CP437 encoding, frame-based animation, custom UI themes, terminal mouse input, HTML and IRC color output, and runs in Utf-8 terminals. It's written in Python and curses, and is fairly portable across Unix systems. If you have ever used TheDraw or Aciddraw, the user interface is similar. It can also load/convert, view, edit and save most CP437 (MS-DOS style) ANSI art in a Utf-8 terminal, so you can view ANSI artscene packs in the comfort…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Monogram AI▲163

    Ask anything and Monogram responds with a visual, interactive interface instead of a wall of text.

    Jul 2026 · monogram.ai · its alternatives →

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    Typed▲104

    New Markdown Editor for Mac by Realmac Software (pre-launch)

    2014 · realmacsoftware.com · its alternatives →

22. 22
    dddraw▲97

    Freehand SVG drawing tool

    2022 · fffuel.co · its alternatives →

23. 23TM
    Typograms, Markdown-like renderer for ASCII diagrams▲140

    2022 · code.sgo.to · its alternatives →

24. 24
    Redlamp▲90

    Native, open-source RAW Lightroom alternative editor for Mac

    18d ago · redlamp.app · its alternatives →

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