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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.
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Monodraw▲160Powerful ASCII art editor designed for the Mac
2015 · monodraw.helftone.com · its alternatives →
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2015 · monodraw.com · its alternatives →
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2015 · monodraw.helftone.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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Create RetroCode Comments & fast loading DotMatrix ASCII art
2016 · apps.apple.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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Make 8-Bit Art!▲107An in-browser canvas tool for making retro art.
2014 · make8bitart.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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Flatdraw▲93Open-source canvas drawing web app with responsive UI
2023 · 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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2012 · dchang.mit.edu · its alternatives →
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Generate an Ascii art from text
2018 · asciiartgen.vercel.app · its alternatives →
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Monogram AI▲163Ask 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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2022 · code.sgo.to · its alternatives →
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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
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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