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CLUSTER DISPLAYS-IMAGES-COMMAND · 20 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2013-04-26

Terminal image and ASCII art tools

This cluster consists of command-line utilities that render images or ASCII art in terminal environments, using techniques like ANSI escape sequences, Unicode block characters, or ASCII approximations. The cluster has a long but sparse entry history, with entries appearing from April 2013 through June 2026, including a few in the later years (2024–2026). The traction leaders are tuimg, beer, and meow, each with zero stars, indicating they are the most active by signal but have not accumulated user attention.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

APR 2013: 1DEC 2015: 1AUG 2017: 1NOV 2017: 1NOV 2018: 1AUG 2024: 1SEP 2024: 1APR 2025: 1JUL 2025: 1AUG 2025: 1MAR 2026: 3APR 2026: 1JUN 2026: 2SEP 2026: 3OCT 2026: 1
APR 2013OCT 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 · 4 hand-coded · 16 unlabelled

Operator · 3 hobby · 17 open source

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 20 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01Image2ASCII2★6 days—hand-codedhobbyTerminal app that converts images into monochrome or colored ASCII art and saves the result to a text file.
  2. 02asciify1★23 days—hobbyCommand-line tool that converts photos into ASCII art and saves the result as high-resolution PNG images.
  3. 03charloom0★15 dayslivehobbyWeb tool that converts images into ASCII art with crisp contours and tonal shading, also available as an offline command-line utility.
  4. 04ascii-forge0★23 daysliveopen sourceCommand-line utility that converts image files into ASCII art and prints them to the terminal.
  5. 05zenscii0★6 mostaleliveopen sourceConverts images and videos into ASCII art via command-line or graphical interface.
  6. 06petiglyph0★4 moliveopen sourceCommand-line tool that converts images and videos into custom font glyphs.
  7. 07beer0★4 moliveopen sourceNovelty terminal command that prints ASCII art of a beer glass to amuse users at the command line.
  8. 08terminalimageviewer0★8 mostaleliveopen sourceUtility that displays images in the terminal using ANSI escape sequences.
  9. 09meow0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceTerminal utility that prints ASCII art of cats for amusement when run.
  10. 10imagineer0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceTerminal-based image processor that performs common conversions and manipulations via accessibility-friendly commands.
  11. 11icat0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceCommand-line tool that displays images in 256-color capable terminals.
  12. 12diagram0★9 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceCommand-line application that converts ASCII art into hand-drawn style diagrams.
  13. 13img2term0★5 moliveopen sourceConverts images to ASCII art or pixel blocks in the terminal, automatically removing backgrounds.
  14. 14qrc0★7 mostaleliveopen sourceCommand-line utility that generates QR codes as image files or terminal art.
  15. 15mezzotone-bin0★7 mostaleliveopen sourceTerminal UI app that converts images and GIFs into ASCII or Unicode art.
  16. 16pytermpix0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceConverts images to pixel art and displays them in ANSI terminals.
  17. 17ascii-term0★2 yrabandonedliveopen sourceTerminal utility that displays ASCII art images for viewing from the command line.
  18. 18python-img2unicode0★2 yrabandonedliveopen sourceDisplays images as Unicode characters in the terminal.
  19. 19im2a0★6 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceCommand-line utility that converts images to ASCII art optimized for 256-color terminal displays.
  20. 20img2xterm0★8 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceDisplays images in 256-color terminals using Unicode block characters.

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