Hey Product Hunt! 👋 I'm Ido, and ASCII Studio started with a very small, slightly nerdy moment. I was putting together a gift for someone close to me - a tiny project with a photo turned into text art, the kind you can hide in a README or print in a terminal. I tried a bunch of converters. Almost all of them wanted me to upload the photo to a server first. It was a personal picture, and I just couldn't do it. The ones that didn't upload looked like they were built in 2009. So I built the tool I wanted: drop in an image and watch it turn into characters, live, right in the browser. Nothing is uploaded - your image never leaves your device, and it even works offline. What you can do: • Live preview while you tune the character ramp, colors, brightness, contrast and dithering • Color or monochrome • Export as TXT, PNG, SVG, HTML, or an embed snippet for your site • No signup, no account, free When I finally saw the photo appear as text, I smiled for a good minute. Text that looks like a picture still feels a little like magic to me, and I wanted to make that easy for anyone. I'd love to see what you make with it - READMEs, terminal splash screens, posters, gifts. And tell me what feature you'd want next. I read every comment. Thank you for trying it! 🙏

ASCII Studio

Your photos as ASCII art - private, instant, in-browser

Your photos as ASCII art - private, instant, in-browser