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24 alternatives to You can ask ChatGPT to make ASCII art

I wouldn't throw away the diffusion models just yet though. ``` prompt: Show me an example of ASCII art, depicting a cat. response: /_/\ / o o \ ( " ) ~()~/ / \ | | / | | \ / ~~/ / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |…

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. You can ask ChatGPT to make ASCII art launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Make ASCII art for READMEs, Discord & creative visuals

    Sep 2026 · imagetoascii.art · its alternatives →

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    Asky▲136

    ASCII art as a service ᕙ(⇀‸↼‶)ᕗ

    2015 · its alternatives →

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    Send a text to SFMOMA and they’ll text you back an artwork

    2017 · sfmoma.org · its alternatives →

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    ChatGPT + Stable Diffusion to convert links into OG images

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    I'm enthralled with using pen plotters to make generative art. Last August at SIGGRAPH, I built an interactive experience for others to see how code can be used to make visual art. The linked blog post is my trials and tribulations of linking a MIDI controller to one of these algorithms and sending its output to a plotter, so that people may witness the end-to-end experience.

    2024 · lostpixels.io · its alternatives →

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    Turn any Instagram picture into impressive ASCII art

    2016 · thought.ai · its alternatives →

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    ANSI & ASCII art over the years

    2015 · artpacks.org · its alternatives →

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    Turn your best prompts into beautiful, shareable images

    Jul 2026 · shareprompt.dev · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN, I built a web tool that wraps the latest AI image generation models with a conversational interface. The main idea is you can iterate on images through natural dialogue instead of rewriting prompts from scratch each time. Key features I focused on: - Multi-turn editing (the AI remembers previous context) - Character/style consistency across multiple images - Multi-image fusion Not affiliated with OpenAI – the name is just a playful nod. Would love feedback from this community, especially on the UX and what features would be useful for technical users. Try it:…

    2025 · gptimage.ai · its alternatives →

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    feast your eyes

    May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    ASCII art in one line

    2015 · 1lineart.kulaone.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN, I’ve been tinkering with this for a while and finally have it in a decent state. It’s a plotter robot that draws caricatures from photos. I trained a diffusion model (Flux Kontext LoRA) on caricature images, 3D-printed a Sharpie mount for my Ender 3, and hacked together a pipeline that goes photo → caricature → G-code. After a lot of trial and error it’s working pretty well, and I put up a little site where you can try it out. Happy to answer questions or hear any feedback. Thanks!

    2025 · caricature-bot.com · its alternatives →

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    2023 · gifcii.fun · its alternatives →

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    Real-time ASCII video filter improved by my cat

    Feb 2026 · whitekotan0.github.io · its alternatives →

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    Transform your images into beautiful ASCII art with our tool

    2025 · ascii-images.com · its alternatives →

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    Curated ChatGPT Image 2 prompts you can copy instantly

    May 2026 · bgremovit.com · its alternatives →

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    Generate an Ascii art from text

    2018 · asciiartgen.vercel.app · its alternatives →

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    An open source ASCII-based art, animation, and game creation

    2016 · jplebreton.com · its alternatives →

  21. 21AW

    Hey, I've made a pdf reader with ai assistance, you can quickly ask questions about the text and the images, and it will have context about all of your reading material so you can ask questions freely, try it now, I'm in open beta to find bug and get feedback. upcoming features: - Highlighting - Highlighting with Notes - Bibliography - Automatic Reference file opening - Improved UX and robustness currenlty alot of bugs so please let me know if you found any. feedback appreciated

    2025 · pdf-hub.com · its alternatives →

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    Glench▲6

    Make ASCII animations in your browser's search bar

    2015 · glench.com · its alternatives →

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    To learn OpenAI’s APIs a bit better (but mostly for fun), I made this image matching/prompting game. The idea is to generate a matching image using a prompt with limited input. You’ll have 3 tries. A new image and leaderboard is automatically reset daily. Let me know your thoughts! Please visit TwinPics.ai - Chris Sev

    2024 · twinpics.ai · its alternatives →

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    Hey Folks, I am Vivek, one of the Founders at MagicStudio.com As we watched the explosion of creative expression with AI rendered pictures, we also noticed that there has been a struggle in discovering levers that make prompts effective. We believe that people think visually, and in order to get their imagination rendered, they can get substantial help by understanding how AI models “perceive” images. This is an attempt to give “simple” prompt ideas to someone who has a picture as a reference. You can use the prompts in any StableDiffusion class generative tool, including our own…

    2022 · magicstudio.com · its alternatives →

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