Alternatives to Moebius

Desktop ANSI and ASCII art editor with a half-block drawing brush. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.

Replacements

Listings that take over the same core job as Moebius.

  • PabloDraw

    ANSI and ASCII art editor for classic BBS-style text art workflows.

    FreeOpen sourceWindowsmacOSLinux

    PabloDraw is another open-source ANSI and ASCII editor for Windows, macOS and Linux, adding multi-user editing for collaborative BBS-style art instead of a half-block brush.

  • Playscii

    Open-source ASCII and tile art editor for games and animation.

    FreeOpen sourceWindowsmacOSLinux

    Playscii is an open-source cross-platform ASCII and tile art editor that adds animation and game-asset creation, distributed through itch.io or a source build.

  • TextPaint

    Browser-based ASCII and ANSI drawing editor with color and shareable output.

    FreeProprietaryWeb

    TextPaint runs in the browser with no installation and supports color and emoji, but it has a lighter feature set and no offline desktop version.

  • REXPaint

    Grid-based ASCII art editor popular for roguelike tiles and text-mode UI mockups.

    FreeProprietaryWindowsLinux

    REXPaint is a free but closed-source grid-based editor for Windows and Linux, aimed at roguelike tiles and text-mode mockups, with no macOS build listed.

  • lvllvl

    Browser-based character and tile art editor for retro text-mode layouts.

    FreeProprietaryWeb

    lvllvl is a free browser-based character and tile editor supporting retro formats such as C64 and PETSCII, with no offline or downloadable version mentioned.

Similar software

Related functionality, not a direct replacement.