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CLUSTER ART-ASCII-CREATING · 7 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2017-06-27

ASCII art editors and viewers

This cluster comprises desktop, terminal, and web tools for creating, editing, and viewing ASCII and ANSI art, including NFO viewers and collaborative editors. Dated entries appear sporadically from June 2017 to July 2025, with the majority arriving in 2021, though the overall timeline is too sparse to show a clear trend. Traction leaders are chara-ai-scribe-vision, NFO Viewer, and pablodraw, each currently at zero stars.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

JUN 2017: 1FEB 2021: 1MAY 2021: 1JUL 2021: 1AUG 2021: 1AUG 2023: 1AUG 2026: 1
JUN 2017AUG 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 3 hand-coded · 4 unlabelled

Operator · 1 commercial · 6 open source

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 7 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01pablodraw0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceAn application for creating, editing, and viewing ASCII art, with support for real-time collaboration.
  2. 02moebius0★5 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceModern editor for creating ANSI and ASCII art with a user-friendly interface.
  3. 03NFO Viewer0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceDesktop viewer for NFO files that renders ASCII art with correct font and encoding.
  4. 04rexpaint0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceDesktop application for creating and editing ASCII art with a graphical interface.
  5. 05kakikun0★5 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceTerminal-based drawing tool for creating paint art and ASCII art using keyboard commands.
  6. 06aewan0★4 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceMulti-layered ascii-art and animation editor for creating and editing text-based art and animated ascii sequences.
  7. 07Aniso - ASCII Tool0★unknownlivecommercialOpen-source tool for generating and customizing ASCII art and character-based imagery.

Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.