RetroTxt

by Ben Garrett · retrotxt.com · Functionality & UI

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View in Chrome Web Store Data as of 15 Oct 2026

Turn pieces of ANSI based text art and ASCII, NFO plain text into HTML.

Users

784

−4 in 30 days

Rating

4.7 / 5

unchanged in 30 days

Ratings

0 in 30 days

Store rank

#35K

#30K among extensions

Version

5.6.1

updated 14 Jul 2026

Users

monthly, 3 years

Latest, 15 Oct 2026: 784 usersMove the mouse over the chart for any month

Ratings count

monthly, 3 years

Latest, 15 Oct 2026: 9 ratingsMove the mouse over the chart for any month

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About RetroTxt

Turn pieces of ANSI, ASCII, and NFO documents into HTML. RetroTxt is the browser Extension that takes legacy and plain text files and stylizes them into a more acceptable, valid format to view or copy from a web browser tab. - View color ANSI, ASCII, NFO, Japanese text art as HTML - View system, server and dev-op logs styled with colored text Built using modern service workers that are more efficient and use far less browser resources than traditional web extensions. ** Please note that when installing RetroTxt requests, Read and change all data permissions. While necessary, RetroTxt ignores all websites except those you tell it to monitor in the background and never collects or transmits any data. Learn more: https://docs.retrotxt.com/usage/secure/ Features - Open-source - Swappable palettes for different color simulations - Customizable font and background colors - SAUCE metadata parsing - Support for multiple text encodings - Automatic fixes for block character and line artifacts - Hundreds of IBM PC font choices - Various Amiga and microcomputer fonts