ASCII Draw For Linux

Diagrams are impressively effective learning tools, and are very good at summarizing large datasets in visual form. There are numerous good apps for building diagrams, even on Linux. If you want to convert diagrams to ASCII, well, then you can use an ASCII converter app, but then you don't actually have full control over the results.

ASCII Draw may seem like a bit strange, since it's not exactly a classic diagram app. As its name states, it's an app that allows you to draw using ASCII characters.

I'm not one to say who should or shouldn't use ASCII diagrams, but they could potentially be quite useful in certain situations.

For instance, if you like the idea of creating ASCII diagrams in order to embed them into the source code of your projects, then ASCII Draw is definitely worth a try.

The first and most obvious aspect of the app's appearance is the fact that it's an GTK Libadwaita app, which makes feel right at home on GNOME desktop environments. Other than that, the app is fairly straightforward. There's a top menu, a retractable sidepanel, and a bottom toolbar with all the available tools.

These include a free hand brush, a free hand line, straight line, straight arrow, rectangle, a character picker, a text tool, and an eraser.

Even though I'm not the most passionate person out there when it comes to ASCII, or diagrams for that matter, I enjoyed the little time I spent playing around with ASCII Draw. It's a simple and very nicely designed application that gets the job done (and it's also free and open-source), like all other apps designed by Nokse22.