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Monodraw is an ASCII art editor for Mac that enables users to create text-based diagrams, layouts, and flow charts. It allows visualization of algorithms, data structures, and binary formats in plain text format, which… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Monodraw, an ASCII Art Editor for Mac launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Monodraw▲160

    Powerful ASCII art editor designed for the Mac

    2015 · monodraw.helftone.com · its alternatives →

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    Create beautiful ASCII text art

    2014 · monodraw.helftone.com · its alternatives →

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    AutoDraw▲1,385

    Autocorrect for drawing, by Google

    2017 · autodraw.com · its alternatives →

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    unDraw▲896

    MIT licensed illustrations for your next project

    2017 · evie.undraw.co · its alternatives →

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    DrawKit▲765

    MIT licensed SVG illustrations, in 2 styles

    2018 · its alternatives →

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    Canvas▲251

    A DALL·E playground for the Mac

    2023 · kevinhermawan.com · its alternatives →

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    Sketch 40▲510

    Latest version of the vector drawing tool

    2016 · sketch.com · its alternatives →

  10. 10AT

    2016 · ivanceras.github.io · its alternatives →

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    Create RetroCode Comments & fast loading DotMatrix ASCII art

    2016 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    Drawww▲661

    Real time AI drawing optimized for the iPad

    2023 · drawww.app · 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 →

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    dddraw▲97

    Freehand SVG drawing tool

    2022 · fffuel.co · its alternatives →

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    Building a visual language of icons anyone can understand

    2015 · thenounproject.com · its alternatives →

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    Best design graphics at your fingertips, just drag and drop

    2021 · icons8.com · its alternatives →

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    Retrotype▲218

    Feels like a real typewriter

    2025 · retrotype.ink · its alternatives →

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    2024 · mermaid-ascii.art · its alternatives →

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    Open-source canvas drawing web app with responsive UI

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    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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    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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