Alternatives

Products that do what Smile - executable ASCII art (2011 remastered) does

1MA
Monodraw, an ASCII Art Editor for Mac▲141
2015 · monodraw.com
2FA
Font Awesome to PNG▲128
2014 · fa2png.io
3AA
ASCII Art with Overstrike▲77
2019 · github.com
4KA
KernType, a typography game made with Raphaël▲268
2011 · type.method.ac
5AP
ASCII pixel art editor for the terminal▲9
feast your eyes
May 2026 · github.com
6TW
Txt.wav – Text Animation Library▲98
2016 · stilllife.studio
7
Make 8-Bit Art!▲107
An in-browser canvas tool for making retro art.
2014
8FA
Free and open-source home for art made with code▲144
2018 · shadergif.com
9PA
Poxi – A Hackable Pixel Art Editor▲144
2017 · github.com
10TI
Texttop – Interactive desktop rendered in TTY with ASCII▲114
2016 · github.com
11DA
Detailed ASCII Web Animations▲14
2021 · michaelkofron.github.io
12A4
Artpip – 4k fine art for your desktop▲142
2017 · artpip.com
13LA
Luculent, a new code/terminal font▲120
2014 · eastfarthing.com
14MF
Monodraw for Mac, ASCII Art Editor – Beta Available▲18
2015 · monodraw.helftone.com
15MF
My first WebGL demo, the first self-extracting PNG ever?▲101
2011 · demoseen.com
16GT
GIF to ASCII Art▲9
2023 · gifcii.fun
17ET
Experimental “Text-To-Color” engine I wrote for fun▲20
2015 · berkin.me
18BA
Bubbly – animated backgrounds in 662 bytes▲75
2017 · github.com
19AA
Asciimatics: a cross-platform terminal animation/drawing library▲21
2016 · github.com
20GA
Glean, a tiny bitmap font for programming▲66
2016 · github.com
21AA
An ASCII z-depth world (view source)▲44
2018 · burrow.jollo.org
22GC
Generate colored ASCII art from images▲19
2018 · asciiator.com
23AA
An ASCII art music video animated with JavaScript▲41
2020 · clad.band
24BE
Bob-editor – create and edit ASCII art graphically▲6
2024 · ivanceras.github.io

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