Alternatives

Products that do what Texttop – Interactive desktop rendered in TTY with ASCII does

1BT
Building terminal dashboards using ASCII/ANSI art and JavaScript▲305
2015 · github.com
2MA
Monodraw, an ASCII Art Editor for Mac▲141
2015 · monodraw.com
3TT
Tiled Text – a Different Approach to Editing Text▲332
2013 · tiledtext.com
4OS
Open source non-linear notepad app▲222
2018 · getmicropad.com
5GT
GPU text rendering with vector textures▲334
2016 · wdobbie.com
6SI
Scratchpad.io - a real-time HTML and CSS editor▲298
2012 · scratchpad.io
7PA
Primrose – a text editor that runs in a WebGL texture▲203
2015 · primroseeditor.com
8TW
Txt.wav – Text Animation Library▲98
2016 · stilllife.studio
9AT
Ascii_tree – A way to create beautiful ASCII trees▲79
2019 · github.com
10CB
Caret – Better Markdown Editor for the Desktop▲59
2015 · caret.io
11DT
Dot-to-ASCII – Graphviz to ASCII Converter▲152
2019 · dot-to-ascii.ggerganov.com
12AM
A Markdown Notepad App▲57
2019 · github.com
13FA
Firepad, an open source collaborative text editor▲168
2013 · firepad.io
14CK
Crackle – keyboard layout for programmers▲114
2017 · medium.com
15FP
Font Playground – Play with variable fonts▲131
2018 · play.typedetail.com
16PA
Popline – An HTML5 Rich Text Editor Toolbar▲55
2013 · kenshin54.github.io
17SA
Slide – an open-source plain text presentation maker▲105
2016 · trikita.co
18TI
tascii.io – a multiplayer ASCII character grid▲9
2018 · tascii.io
19AP
ASCII pixel art editor for the terminal▲9
feast your eyes
May 2026 · github.com
20ET
Experimental “Text-To-Color” engine I wrote for fun▲20
2015 · berkin.me
21AD
a distraction-free Markdown editor▲74
2012 · pencil.asleepysamurai.com
22NI
Neonpad.io – A neon plain text editor▲50
2021 · neonpad.io
23AH
A hierarchical Markdown notetaking tool with mouse/tablet drawing▲23
2019 · github.com
24RT
Rich Text Math Editing on the Web with Markdown and AsciiMath▲45
2021 · writer.math.dev

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