AsciiCam

Dozing Cat Software

About this app

AsciiCam generates ASCII images in real time from whatever your camera is pointing at. Choose from black and white, primary colors, or full colors, take pictures, and share them as images or HTML. You can also create ASCII versions of pictures in your gallery, and optionally have ASCII versions automatically generated every time you take a picture with the standard camera app.

AsciiCam is completely free and open source.

Ratings and reviews

The app is straightforward, transforming the camera field of view in a 112×64 array of "letter pixels" that is less of an ASCII and more of letterized pixel art. Keeps well with the 60 FPS refresh rate, and is efficient. Unfortunately, trying to use the front camera crashes the app.

It's alright, but not true ASCII art. The photos in the description are as promised, so if you like those, then go for it. The icon with the lines is not realistic, so if you like those, then leave this app aside.

This app is way better that its successor, which is the Vector Camera since the modded pictures are of low quality and doesn't even have the option to move/access it from the app's own storage since you'll need to share it first to an external device then send it back to yourself.

What’s new

1.2.4:
- Bug fixes.

1.2.1:
- Added option to automatically convert pictures you take with the normal camera.

1.2.0:
- New display mode with black text on white background.
- Saved pictures are now stored in a single directory.
- Bug fixes.