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24 alternatives to Tufte

CDN and Node package to generate ASCII graphs inline

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.

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   Mermaid ASCII Diagrams▲234

   2024 · mermaid-ascii.art · its alternatives →

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   Mermaid Chart▲176

   A smarter way to create diagrams

   2023 · mermaid.ai · its alternatives →

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   ASCII Charts▲158

   Nice-looking lightweight ASCII line charts generator for iOS

   2023 · apps.apple.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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   ASCII line chart with console, HTML and image outputs, written in PHP▲74

   Nice looking versatile ASCII linegraph written in PHP - noximo/PHP-colored-ascii-linechart

   2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   MRRArt Pro▲568

   Create beautiful text charts (ascii) from your data

   2023 · mrrartpro.com · its alternatives →

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   Line9 – A Mermaid rendering engine with its own layout▲87

   Line9 is a new rendering engine for Mermaid flowchart diagrams that aims to remove the need for manual adjustment of layout. Mermaid is a popular text-based language for describing multiple types of diagrams. Several Mermaid rendering engines already exist. Most, like the original mermaid.js, use Dagre or ELK graph drawing libraries to automatically lay out their diagrams. I’ve used Mermaid for the past four years but often recreated my flowcharts in a diagram editor so that I could modify the layout to something that better suited my needs. Use Line9 when you want an automatic flowchart…

   Aug 2026 · line9.ai · its alternatives →

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   asciibar▲90

   ASCII bar chart generator

   2024 · asciibar.ozbot.si · its alternatives →

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   Programmatically Generate Diagrams for GitHub Readmes▲220

   🧜‍♀️ RESTful rendering pipeline for generating sequence and UML diagrams using Mermaid for Markdown docs (Diagrams as a Service) - Schachte/Mermrender

   2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Chart.xkcd – Xkcd-styled chart library▲435

    xkcd styled chart lib. Contribute to timqian/chart.xkcd development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

11. 11TM
    Typograms, Markdown-like renderer for ASCII diagrams▲140

    2022 · code.sgo.to · its alternatives →

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    Ascii_tree – A way to create beautiful ASCII trees▲79

    Create beautiful ascii trees. Contribute to spandanb/asciitree development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Beauty Diagram▲98

    Mermaid online live editor that beautifies flowcharts and activity diagrams — also supports PlantUML and draw.io. Live preview, one-click beautify, clean SVG / HD PNG export.

    May 2026 · beauty-diagram.com · its alternatives →

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    Comma Separated Values (CSV) to Unicode Separated Values (USV)▲208

    crates.io serves as a central registry for sharing crates, which are packages or libraries written in Rust that you can use to enhance your projects

    2024 · crates.io · its alternatives →

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    GUI for editing Mermaid class diagrams▲230

    2025 · docs.mermaidchart.com · its alternatives →

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    Flexible command line tool to create graphs from CSV data▲95

    Flexible command line tool to create graphs from CSV data - mcastorina/graph-cli

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Tufte's discrete sparklines using D3.js▲70

    I've been working on a dashboard and found a data set that would look great represented as a discrete sparkline. This type of visualization ...

    2016 · dataviztalk.blogspot.com · its alternatives →

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    No Code Chart▲152

    Free no-code tool to create and export chart to your website

    2020 · nocodechart.xyz · its alternatives →

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    Dot-to-ASCII – Graphviz to ASCII Converter▲152

    2019 · dot-to-ascii.ggerganov.com · its alternatives →

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    Tufte's line graph sparklines with D3.js▲30

    In this blog post, I will cover how to make a sparkline using d3.js . Our final product will look like this: For those who are unfamili...

    2016 · dataviztalk.blogspot.com · its alternatives →

21. 21DM
    Direct manipulation flowchart editor without the mouse▲54

    Hey HN, I made this because I wanted a fast editing experience when making flowcharts. Other tools (bottom)require clicking and dragging (or editing code). Knotend is keyboard centric and is supposed to feel more like editing a doc than dragging around boxes and arrows. I've tested in on safari and chrome desktop. Its difficult to use on mobile but you can view existing charts. I'd appreciate your feedback on how you use it, the design, any bugs etc. Thank you. Prior art - https://mermaid-js.github.io/ - Confluence (Atlassian) - draw.io - excalidraw EDIT: fixed the bug on…

    2021 · knotend.com · its alternatives →

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    FastCharts▲109

    Customize your own area, bar, column and line charts 📊

    2019 · its alternatives →

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    CSV Charts▲64

    Like charts but hate spreadsheets?

    2023 · csvcharts.com · its alternatives →

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    Chartify▲74

    Autogenerate charts from CSVs with AI using GPT3

    2023 · chartify.ai · its alternatives →

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