ascii animation studio

Characters
in motion.

Design ASCII animations visually. Export to any format. Ship in seconds. Open source, offline, under 4 KB.

sleeping.aanim
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Everything you need.
Nothing you don't.

A focused tool for one job: making ASCII characters move beautifully.

A real editor.
Not a toy.

Full desktop app built with Tauri 2 and Rust. Native menus, file dialogs, keyboard shortcuts. Under 10 MB installed.

sleeping.aanim — Cel
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▶ play loop on 0.00s / 4.00s
|0ms |1s |2s |3s |4s

Three lines
to start.

Four packages on npm. Pure functions, no side effects, deterministic output. Works in Node, Deno, Bun, and every browser.

Drop-in component.
One import.

A ready-to-use component that plays any scene. Tree-shakeable, fully typed, 3 KB.

Add to any project.

Start animating.

No account, no API key, no credit card. Five commands from clone to your first scene.