Phosphor Cam turns your live camera feed into ASCII art, dithering, halftone, lines and voxel visuals, in real time and entirely on your device.

Point your camera at anything, pick a style, and watch the world get redrawn as text, dots, ribbons or pixel blocks. Switch styles on the fly without restarting the camera, and fine-tune the look until it feels right.

Five visual styles

- ASCII: characters mapped to brightness, optionally tinted with the original colors

- Dither: a retro, print-like bitmap look

- Halftone: your image rebuilt as a grid of dots

- Voxel: chunky pixels with a 3D block effect

- Lines: every row drawn as one continuous ribbon

Make it yours

- Several ASCII character sets, including blocks, matrix and edges

- Adjustable cell size, contrast and brightness

- Color mode, invert, and custom foreground and background colors

- Live FPS and render time readout

Capture and share

- Save high-resolution images of what you see

- Record video of the rendered output

- Copy the current ASCII art to your clipboard as text

- Switch between front and back cameras

Private and offline

Everything runs locally. Your camera feed is never uploaded, and the app needs no account, no server and no internet connection. It contains no ads and no trackers.

Phosphor Cam is free and open source under the MIT license.