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24 alternatives to Monodraw for Mac, ASCII Art Editor – Beta Available

Monodraw for Mac is an ASCII art editor that helps users create text-based diagrams, flowcharts, and visual representations of algorithms and data structures. The tool produces plain text output that can be embedded… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Monodraw for Mac, ASCII Art Editor – Beta Available launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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   Monodraw, an ASCII Art Editor for Mac▲141

   2015 · monodraw.com · its alternatives →

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   Monodraw▲160

   Powerful ASCII art editor designed for the Mac

   2015 · monodraw.helftone.com · its alternatives →

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   Monodraw (Beta)▲42

   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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   Sketch 40▲510

   Latest version of the vector drawing tool

   2016 · sketch.com · its alternatives →

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   Canvas▲251

   A DALL·E playground for the Mac

   2023 · kevinhermawan.com · its alternatives →

7. 7AT
   Ascii to SVG▲416

   2016 · ivanceras.github.io · its alternatives →

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   The Noun Project for Mac▲334

   Building a visual language of icons anyone can understand

   2015 · thenounproject.com · its alternatives →

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   Typograms, Markdown-like renderer for ASCII diagrams▲140

   2022 · code.sgo.to · its alternatives →

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

    2020 · icons.mono.company · its alternatives →

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    Pichon for Mac▲270

    Best design graphics at your fingertips, just drag and drop

    2021 · icons8.com · its alternatives →

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    AsciiSketch a free browser-based ASCII art and diagram editor▲53

    Jan 2026 · files.littlebird.com.au · its alternatives →

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    Monodraw - old school ASCII▲3

    Create RetroCode Comments & fast loading DotMatrix ASCII art

    2016 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    Retrotype▲218

    Feels like a real typewriter

    2025 · retrotype.ink · its alternatives →

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    Mermaid ASCII Diagrams▲234

    2024 · mermaid-ascii.art · its alternatives →

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    Diagrams for Mac▲196

    A diagram editor for visualizing structures and processes

    2020 · diagrams.app · its alternatives →

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    dddraw▲97

    Freehand SVG drawing tool

    2022 · fffuel.co · its alternatives →

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    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 →

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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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    ASCII Art Paint▲150

    Surprise your readers with an original post using text art

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Ferrite – Markdown editor in Rust with native Mermaid diagram rendering▲241

    Ferrite: Fast Markdown/Text/Code editor in Rust with native Mermaid diagrams Built a Markdown editor using Rust + egui. v0.2.1 just dropped with major Mermaid improvements: → Native Mermaid diagrams - Flowcharts, sequence, state, ER, git graphs - pure Rust, no JS → Split view - Raw + rendered side-by-side with sync scrolling → Syntax highlighting - 40+ languages with large file optimization → JSON/YAML/TOML tree viewer - Structured editing with expand/collapse → Git integration - File tree shows modified/staged/untracked status Also: minimap, zen mode,…

    Jan 2026 · github.com · 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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    ShakyDraw – Hand-drawn block diagrams from plain text▲140

    2017 · shakydraw.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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