Durdraw Alternatives

Durdraw is described as 'Versatile Unicode, ANSI & ASCII Art editor for the Linux/Unix/macOS terminal, with animation, 256 color support and custom themes' and is an app in the photos & graphics category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Durdraw for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, Web-based and Self-Hosted apps. The best Durdraw alternative is Playscii, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Durdraw are Monodraw, PabloDraw, ASCII Art Paint and REXPaint.

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  1. Playscii icon
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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
     
    • Playscii is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Durdraw.

    • Playscii is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Durdraw.

    • Playscii is Free and Open SourceDurdraw is also Free and Open Source
  2. Monodraw icon
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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
     
    • Monodraw is the most popular commercial alternative to Durdraw.

    • Monodraw is Paid and ProprietaryDurdraw is Free and Open Source
    • Monodraw is LightweightDurdraw is not according to our users
  3. PabloDraw icon
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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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    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
     
    • ASCII Art Paint is the most popular Web-based alternative to Durdraw.

    • ASCII Art Paint is Free and Open SourceDurdraw is also Free and Open Source
  5. REXPaint icon
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    REXPaint is a powerful and user-friendly ASCII art editor.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. Charaster icon
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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
     
    • Charaster is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to Durdraw.

    • Charaster is Free and Open SourceDurdraw is also Free and Open Source
  7. Calligraphy icon
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    Calligraphy turns short texts into large, impressive banners made up of ASCII Characters, ready to be copied or exported to images. Spice up your online conversations by adding some extra oompf to your messages.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
     
  8. ASCII Draw icon
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    This app lets you draw diagrams, tables, tree view, art and more using only characters. There are many stiles to choose from and multiple tools available to use such as:

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
     
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    Open-source HTML5-based ANSI/ASCII editor.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
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    Moebius is a new ANSI and ASCII Editor for MacOS, Windows, and Linux. The major feature that differentiates it from PabloDraw is the 'half-block' brush which allows editing in a style closer to Photoshop than a text editor, although you can still use the function and...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    Draw simple vector art with lines, arrows, boxes and text like on a grid paper and export them to SVG, EPS, PDF or ASCII art.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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