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24 alternatives to Monodraw (Beta)

Create beautiful ASCII text art

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Monodraw (Beta) launched in 2014; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1
Monodraw▲160
Powerful ASCII art editor designed for the Mac
2015 · its alternatives →
2MF
Monodraw for Mac, ASCII Art Editor – Beta Available▲18
2015 · monodraw.helftone.com · its alternatives →
3MA
Monodraw, an ASCII Art Editor for Mac▲141
2015 · monodraw.com · its alternatives →
4
Monodraw - old school ASCII▲3
Create RetroCode Comments & fast loading DotMatrix ASCII art
2016 · its alternatives →
5
ASCII Art Paint▲150
Surprise your readers with an original post using text art
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
6TI
Texttop – Interactive desktop rendered in TTY with ASCII▲114
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
7BT
Building terminal dashboards using ASCII/ANSI art and JavaScript▲305
2015 · github.com · its alternatives →
8PA
Primrose – a text editor that runs in a WebGL texture▲203
2015 · primroseeditor.com · its alternatives →
9
Make 8-Bit Art!▲107
An in-browser canvas tool for making retro art.
2014 · its alternatives →
10TV
turn videos into ASCII art (open source, js+canvas)▲121
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 →
11
Flatdraw▲93
Open-source canvas drawing web app with responsive UI
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
12
ASCII Drawing Board▲121
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…
Oct 2025 · delopsu.com · its alternatives →
13CP
Choose Photo. Make Ascii▲116
2012 · dchang.mit.edu · its alternatives →
14
ASCII pixel art editor for the terminal▲9
feast your eyes
May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
15
Ascii Art Generator▲5
Generate an Ascii art from text
2018 · its alternatives →
16SH
ShakyDraw – Hand-drawn block diagrams from plain text▲140
2017 · shakydraw.com · its alternatives →
17GC
Generate colored ASCII art from images▲19
2018 · asciiator.com · its alternatives →
18TM
Typograms, Markdown-like renderer for ASCII diagrams▲140
2022 · code.sgo.to · its alternatives →
19
ImageToPromptAI▲129
Image to prompt generator
2023 · imagetopromptai.com · its alternatives →
20
DrawType▲109
The Drawing Keyboard
2014 · its alternatives →
21
ASCIImator▲79
A simple photo app that converts images into ASCII art
2015 · its alternatives →
22
Method Draw▲70
A free browser-based vector creator
2014 · its alternatives →
23PA
Primrose – A text editor that draws to Canvas▲49
2015 · capnmidnight.github.io · its alternatives →
24IW
I wrote a rust program to translate images into textual line art▲70
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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