145 Open source projects that are alternatives of or similar to Portable Ascii

translate images, videos and text to Ascii arts easy

Animated spinning doughnut in ASCII

ASCII renderer in pure java with no external dependencies

An ASCII art music video animated with JavaScript

Pretty print tables and more in golang!

Bring charts to terminal.

Convert images to ASCII art.

Allure of the Stars is a near-future Sci-Fi roguelike and tactical squad combat game written in Haskell; please offer feedback, e.g., after trying out the web frontend version at

ASCII generator (image to text, image to image, video to video)

A faithful recreation of the original DOS font.

...We might be furry trash.

CLI app to convert ASCII arts into hand drawn diagrams.

Visualize different Unicode encodings in the terminal

Nice-looking lightweight console ASCII line charts ╭┈╯ for NodeJS, browsers and terminal, no dependencies

Can bus monitoring tool based on arduino and can bus shield. Implements CAN ASCII/SLCAN protocol compatible with Lawicel CAN232/CANUSB. Can be used for monitoring low speed CAN (interior can bus of most cars, less than 500kbps). For higher speeds serial port can become a bottleneck in case data density is high.

Design a turing-complete marble run with ascii/unicode art

cfg2html is a UNIX shell script similar to supportinfo, getsysinfo or get_config, except that it creates a HTML (and plain ASCII) system documentation for HP-UX, SCO-UNIX, AIX, Sun OS and Linux systems. Plug-ins for SAP, Oracle, Informix, Serviceguard, Fiber Channel/SAN, TIP/ix, OpenText (IXOS/LEA), SN Mass Storage like MAS, EMC, EVA, XPs, Network Node Manager and DataProtector etc. are included. The first versions of cfg2html were written for HP-UX. Meanwhile the cfg2html HP-UX stream was ported to all major *NIX platforms and small embedded systems.

It is a simple python package to play videos in the terminal using characters as pixels

📉 Lightweight and fast terminal ASCII charts for nodejs and browser.

ASCII canvas for drawing in console

A simple python lib to print data as ascii histograms

Sexy fonts for the console

tai (Terminal Ascii Image) tool to convert images to ascii written in Rust

Go package containing implementations of efficient encoding, decoding, and validation APIs.

C library to remove white space from strings as fast as possible

Django website for generating ASCII-arts out of images or text 🎨

A fast PHP slug generator and transliteration library that converts non-ascii characters for use in URLs.

📺 ASCII gif/video player write in golang

A small library to generate QR codes with ascii

🍓 Ascii progress-bar(s) in the terminal.

The XXV visual hex viewer for the terminal.

An ASCII box drawing plugin for Vim

A collection of strange encoded JSONs. For connoisseurs.

Doom-like raycasting engine that renders to ascii for playing in terminal

Console based MAP 🗺 : with lots of features 🤩

Convert video to ascii art animation.

🎨 ASCII art library for Python

Markdown tables, with alignment

A simple console emulator for ascii games written in go

NodeJS Modbus Stream

Convert image to ascii.

Interactive ASCII art diagram generators. 🌟

A Java class for printing binary trees as ASCII text

Fast integer to ascii / integer to string conversion

A .NET ascii/ansi console engine written in C# for MonoGame and XNA. Create your own text roguelike (or other) games!

Create slides in TypeScript and present them in the terminal using ASCII only!

Aligns columns in your ASCII tables on the command line or in vim.

laptop CSS for the modern world

User contributed color scripts

Text-based user interface CSS library

Slug Generator Library for PHP, based on Unicode’s CLDR data

RetroTxt is the WebExtension that turns ANSI, ASCII, NFO text into in-browser HTML

Generate simple tables in terminals from a nested list of strings.

ANSI/ASCII art viewer for Mac OS X

Visualize data using relative ordering

A java library providing support for ASCII, XML and binary property lists.

Can stream an ~20 minutes ASCII movie via Telnet emulation as stand alone server or via xinetd daemon. Using famous ASCII art animation from www.asciimation.co.nz (Star ASCIIMATION Wars)

Graphviz to ASCII converter using Graph::Easy

The terminal presentation tool.

Converts a picture and video to ascii art