Letterpress
Create beautiful ASCII art Source
Description
Letterpress converts your images into a picture made up of ASCII characters. You can save the output to a file, copy it, and even change its resolution!
Notice
Abandoned on December 15th, 2025.
Rating
Mobile Fit: 5Perfect - this app fits your phone screen just fine out of the box and works nicely with touch input!
Project status: released
This project has been developed so far, that its authors felt confident enough to create a release.
The project repository was created on 2023-09-05.
The last known commit happened on 2025-12-15.
Please note: This information is not updated continuously. This particular listing was last updated on 2026-01-17
Features
Connectivity: This app does never use the internet.
✔ This app is (according to its appstream metadata or description) intended to be compatible with mobile devices.
Packaging
Get it on Flathub!
Install as flatpak: https://flathub.org/apps/io.gitlab.gregorni.Letterpress.flatpakref
If you're lucky*, you can install this app by just hitting this button:
Install* You need to have an appstream:// handler, e.g., GNOME Software or KDE Discover, installed and the app needs to be available in a configured software repository, more details.
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Licensing and technical details
License: GPL-3.0-or-later Metadata: CC0-1.0
Frameworks: GTK4 libadwaita
Backend: jp2a
Programming languages: Python
Build system: meson
AppStream Metadata URL: https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Letterpress/-/raw/main/data/io.gitlab.gregorni.Letterpress.metainfo.xml.in.in