ASCII art that never leaves your browser
Turn a photograph into characters, or grow a fractal tree from a six-letter seed. Both run as plain JavaScript in this tab — no uploads, no adverts, no stranger’s server holding on to your image.
It 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.