ASCII art that never leaves your browser
Turn a photograph into characters, animate a video into moving ASCII, build a banner out of block letters, or grow a fractal tree from a six-letter seed. All of it runs as plain JavaScript in this tab — no uploads, no adverts, no stranger’s server holding on to your files.
Image to ASCII
Drop a picture in, get characters out — in colour if you want.
Convert an imageText to ASCII banner
Turn a word into big block letters.
Make a bannerFiglet-style font gallery
See your text in every style at once, then take the one you like.
Compare fontsUnicode text converter
𝐁𝐨𝐥𝐝, 𝓼𝓬𝓻𝓲𝓹𝓽 and ｆｕｌｌ ｗｉｄｔｈ text for places that allow no formatting.
Style some textASCII image animator
Turn a video into ASCII art that actually moves.
Animate somethingASCII tree generator
Grow elaborate fractal trees — every seed a different tree.
Grow a treeIt cannot phone home
There is no server, no API and no analytics. The page ships a Content-Security-Policy of connect-src 'self', so the browser itself blocks any request to another origin — this is enforced, not just promised.
Your photo stays your photo
Most ASCII converters upload the picture to a server and hand it back as text. Here the file is decoded onto a canvas in this tab and read pixel by pixel — the bytes never leave the machine you are sitting at.
Nothing is remembered
No accounts, no cookies, no local storage, nothing in the URL. Close the tab and the image, the art and the settings are all gone with it.
How it works
Three simple steps. Everything runs as plain JavaScript inside your browser, so what you open never touches the internet.
- 01
Drop it in
Drag a picture onto the page, paste one from the clipboard, or pick a seed and let the tree grow itself.
- 02
Tune it
Change the character ramp, the width, the contrast, the season, the wind. Everything re-renders as you drag.
- 03
Take it away
Copy the characters, or download them as .txt, .ans, .html or a PNG. Nothing was transmitted along the way.