Monodraw, an ASCII Art Editor for Mac

In plain words

Monodraw is an ASCII art editor for Mac that enables users to create text-based diagrams, layouts, and flow charts. It allows visualization of algorithms, data structures, and binary formats in plain text format, which can be embedded anywhere or exported as PNG and SVG images. The tool is designed for technical documentation, helping developers and writers enhance code, specifications, and other materials with comprehensible textual diagrams.

written from the facts on this page · September 2026

From the sources

Plain text has been around for decades and it's here to stay. Monodraw allows you to easily create text-based art (like diagrams, layouts, flow charts) and visually represent algorithms, data structures, binary formats and more. Because it's all just text, it can be easily embedded almost anywhere. Of course, exporting as images is also supported (PNG and SVG). A picture is worth a thousand words. A diagram is probably worth twice as much. Enhance your technical documentation (code, specs) with easy to comprehend textual art. Visualisation of data structures, algorithms and data formats plays a crucial role in understanding. You will be reading the code more often than writing it, so why…from monodraw.com

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