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24 alternatives to Video to ASCII
Play videos in a terminal using ASCII characters
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Video to ASCII launched in 2018; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Stream ASCII movies over HTTP. Contribute to martinraison/ascii-tv development by creating an account on GitHub.
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A point to point color terminal video chat. Contribute to mofarrell/p2pvc development by creating an account on GitHub.
2015 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Chat roulette in your command line
2019 · us-central1-your-boss.cloudfunctions.net · its alternatives →
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2012 · ivolo.me · 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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HeyGen CLI▲139Make videos, translate content + create avatars in terminal
Apr 2026 · developers.heygen.com · its alternatives →
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2012 · dchang.mit.edu · 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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Image to Ascii Text with color support, can output to html or ansi terminal. - hit9/img2txt
2015 · github.com · its alternatives →
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GitLab: https://gitlab.com/jD91mZM2/termplay. Contribute to jD91mZM2/termplay development by creating an account on GitHub.
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Screensavers for your terminal. Contribute to cxreiff/ttysvr development by creating an account on GitHub.
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I got tired of open file.docx → wait 8 seconds → close Word just to read a document, so I built a terminal-native Word viewer! What it does: * View `.docx` files directly in your terminal with (mostly) proper formatting * Tables actually look like tables (with Unicode borders!) * Nested lists work correctly with indentation * Full-text search with highlighting * Copy content straight to clipboard with `c` * Export to markdown/CSV/JSON Why I made this: Working on servers over SSH, I constantly hit Word docs I needed to check quickly. The existing solutions I'm aware of either strip…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Add ascii image or ascii font to comments in VSCode
2021 · marketplace.visualstudio.com · its alternatives →
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Last month, I started learning a Python TUI framework called Textual. After working on a 4x4 board game, I made an interactive app to test your CLI text processing skills with 40 beginner to intermediate level exercises. The app is fairly basic in terms of features — only single input file, so no stdin data, multiple files, etc. Most of the exercises in this app is based on my Computing from the Command Line ebook (https://learnbyexample.github.io/cli-computing/preface.html). I hope to improve the TUI app to support all the 200+ exercises sometime next year.
2022 · github.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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getascii▲3Every ASCII tool in one terminal — free, in your browser
Jul 2026 · getascii.com · 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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I made a website for drawing ascii art with other people https://ascii-collab.app/ It's been online for a little over a year so there's a fair bit of stuff to browse if you want to look around (so much that I even made a poster https://ascii-collab.app/poster.png) There are other websites like yourworldoftext that do this but ascii-collab has some extra features like per-user undo/redo, box selection, a color highlight mode to see who made particular changes, and there's admin tools so I can remove spam. The code is open sourced here…
2021 · its alternatives →
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ASCII Cats▲97Artwork created using keyboard symbols and characters
2021 · user.xmission.com · its alternatives →
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Creating code samples in simple terminal interface
2022 · terminalgif.com · its alternatives →
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