Ascii Forge
Generate Ascii art from photos
$1.99 · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Turn any photo into stunning ASCII art in seconds. Custom color themes, character sets, export as image or raw text. Old-school aesthetic, modern controls.
ASCIIForge transforms your photos into character art with a level of control you won't find anywhere else.
Import any image and watch it convert instantly into ASCII — then dial it in exactly how you want it. Adjust contrast, brightness, and column density. Choose from five character sets ranging from classic ASCII gradients to Unicode block characters to pure binary. Flip the palette, pinch to zoom, and tweak until it's perfect.
The color system is unlike anything else in this category. Every accent, border, background, and UI element responds to a single hue slider — slide to blue and the whole app goes blue, slide to red and everything shifts with it. Background darkness is independently adjustable, so you can go pitch-black terminal or washed-out ghost mode.
When you're done, export as a full-resolution image rendered in your chosen color scheme, or copy the raw formatted ASCII text directly to your clipboard — paste it anywhere and the spacing holds.
Features
Instant photo-to-ASCII conversion
- Five character sets: Standard, Blocks, Minimal, Dense, Binary
- Hue based color theming — accent and background independently controlled
- Pinch-to-zoom ASCII viewer
- Contrast, brightness, and column width controls
- Invert mode
- Export as image or copy formatted ASCII text to clipboard
- No ads. No account. No internet required.
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Information
- Seller
- devin sewell
- Size
- 542.7 KB
- Category
- Graphics & Design
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 17 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © Devin Sewell
