ASCII Art Studio Alternatives

ASCII Art Studio is described as 'Powerful ASCII Art editor. It allows you to make your own ASCII Art quickly and easily' and is an app. There are more than 10 alternatives to ASCII Art Studio for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Web-based and Self-Hosted apps. The best ASCII Art Studio alternative is Playscii, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like ASCII Art Studio are Monodraw, Ascii Generator 2, Letterpress ASCII and PabloDraw.

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  1. Playscii icon

    Playscii

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    Playscii is a powerful, open-source ASCII-based art, animation, and game creation tool. Advanced layer-based tools and import and export options are available through a familiar window system with the appeal of classic DOS development tools like QBasic.

    14 Playscii alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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    • Playscii is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to ASCII Art Studio.

    • Playscii is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to ASCII Art Studio.

    • Playscii is Free and Open SourceASCII Art Studio is Free and Proprietary
  2. Monodraw icon

    Monodraw

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    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.

    18 Monodraw alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
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    • Monodraw is the most popular commercial alternative to ASCII Art Studio.

    • Monodraw is Paid and ProprietaryASCII Art Studio is Free and Proprietary
    • Monodraw is LightweightASCII Art Studio is not according to our users
  4. Ascii Generator 2 icon

    Ascii Generator 2

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    Ascii Generator 2 (Ascgen2) is an application to convert images into high quality ASCII art - text that accurately represents the original image. The only program of its kind to support variable width fonts and real-time output adjustment and more.

    14 Ascii Generator 2 alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  5. Letterpress ASCII icon

    Letterpress ASCII

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    Letterpress converts your images into a picture made up of ASCII characters. You can save the output to a file, copy it, and even change its resolution! High-res output can still be viewed comfortably by lowering the zoom factor.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • GNOME
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  6. PabloDraw icon

    PabloDraw

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    PabloDraw is a cross-platform text editor designed for creating ANSI and ASCII art, similar to that of its DOS-based predecessors; ACiDDraw (1994) and TheDraw (1986).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  7. ASCII Art Paint icon

    ASCII Art Paint

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    free and open-source web-based application for creating and editing images consisting of text characters and hieroglyphs (ASCII graphics / Shift_JIS art / Kaomoji and many others).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
    Simple interface
     

    • ASCII Art Paint is the most popular Web-based alternative to ASCII Art Studio.

    • ASCII Art Paint is Free and Open SourceASCII Art Studio is Free and Proprietary
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    REXPaint

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    REXPaint is a powerful and user-friendly ASCII art editor.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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    JavE

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    JavE (Java Ascii Versatile Editor) is a free Ascii Editor. Rather than for editing texts, it is intended for drawing simple diagrams by using Ascii characters.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  11. MOTD Maker icon

    MOTD Maker

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    This program was written to make it easy to generate MOTD files that contain bold and underline formatting along with the 8 colours you can use. Currently the program allows you to output as raw ASCII (control characters saved as ASCII 027) or as the characters `027 (this is...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  12. Charaster icon

    Charaster

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    Charaster is a browser-based editor for ASCII grahics and art. It provides a robust set of raster-style editing tools such as Line, Rectangle and free-hand drawing tool; all configurable by specifying the character, color and styling to use while drawing.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
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    • Charaster is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to ASCII Art Studio.

    • Charaster is Free and Open SourceASCII Art Studio is Free and Proprietary

  14. Durdraw

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    Versatile Unicode, ANSI & ASCII Art editor for the Linux/Unix/macOS terminal, with animation, 256 color support and custom themes.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
    Durdraw's 256 color palette
     
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