Apps similar to Libcaca include textview, which is free and open source. Other options are png2linetext, derasterize and hiptext. In total there are four apps like Libcaca for Linux.
Quickly view (satellite) imagery directly in your terminal using Unicode 9.0 characters and true color. textview is a small tool to quickly view high-resolution multi-band imagery directly in your terminal.
Converts images into textual line art. Contribute to lf94/img2utf development by creating an account on GitHub.
derasterize converts pictures into Unicode text with Ansi colors for display within a terminal. It performs lots of AVX2 optimized math to deliver the best quality on modern terminals with 24-bit color support, e.g. Kitty, Gnome Terminal, CMD.EXE, mintty, mlterm, etc.
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