ASCII Player
Watch YouTube, Twitch and TikTok videos as live ASCII art
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Details
- External ID
- 1271346
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- ASCII Player
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 10, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.33
- Tags
- Chrome Extensions, Art, Video
Description
A free Chrome extension that redraws the video you're watching out of text characters, live, right in the player. Works on YouTube, Twitch, TikTok and Instagram. GPU-rendered, four character sets, a Matrix digital rain mode, and you can copy any frame as plain text. No account, no tracking: nothing leaves your browser.
Enrichment
- Niche
- social video downloaders and scrapers
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- ascii video player for online streaming
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a Chrome extension that captures the HTML5 video element on canvas, runs an ASCII/Matrix shader or CPU canvas pixel-to-character mapping, and overlays the text output.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 374 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #124 of 375 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 320 days after the earliest competitor.
- ASCII Studio · ph · 2026-10-11 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- Image to ASCII · ph · 2026-09-14 · 100 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- TikTok™ Video Reels for PC · ph · 2026-10-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- WatchToText · ph · 2026-09-26 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- ClipKoala · ph · 2026-09-19 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- TokSaves · ph · 2026-10-02 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Unduhin · ph · 2026-09-16 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- TikTok Video Downloader · ph · 2026-09-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
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