AsciiCam

Replace pixels with text

NOTE: AsciiCam is no longer under active development. Its successor is
Vector Camera, which has all of AsciiCam's features.

AsciiCam generates images in real time from whatever your camera is pointing at,
either in greyscale, in the primary colors or in full color. Instead of a normal
image made of pixels, each area will have a coloured letter of the latin
alphabet or another ASCII character.

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.

Versions

Although APK downloads are available below to give you the choice, you should be aware that by installing that way you will not receive update notifications and it's a less secure way to download. We recommend that you install the F-Droid client and use that.

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Version 1.2.4 (16) suggested Added on Mar 30, 2020

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This version requires Android 2.3 or newer.

It is built and signed by F-Droid, and guaranteed to correspond to this source tarball.
Permissions
- take pictures and videos
  
  This app can take pictures and record videos using the camera while the app is in use.
- read the contents of your shared storage
  
  Allows the app to read the contents of your shared storage.
- modify or delete the contents of your shared storage
  
  Allows the app to write the contents of your shared storage.
Download APK 0.6 MiB PGP Signature | Build Log
Version 1.1.6 (11) - Added on Jan 31, 2017

arm64-v8a armeabi armeabi-v7a x86 x86_64

This version requires Android 1.6 or newer.

It is built and signed by F-Droid, and guaranteed to correspond to this source tarball.
Permissions
- take pictures and videos
  
  This app can take pictures and record videos using the camera while the app is in use.
- read the contents of your shared storage
  
  Allows the app to read the contents of your shared storage.
- modify or delete the contents of your shared storage
  
  Allows the app to write the contents of your shared storage.
Download APK 266 KiB PGP Signature | Build Log
Version 1.1.5 (10) - Added on Jan 11, 2016

arm64-v8a armeabi armeabi-v7a x86 x86_64

This version requires Android 1.6 or newer.

It is built and signed by F-Droid, and guaranteed to correspond to this source tarball.
Permissions
- take pictures and videos
  
  This app can take pictures and record videos using the camera while the app is in use.
- read the contents of your shared storage
  
  Allows the app to read the contents of your shared storage.
- modify or delete the contents of your shared storage
  
  Allows the app to write the contents of your shared storage.
Download APK 264 KiB PGP Signature | Build Log