RetroTxt

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

As of June 2026, RetroTxt has 741 users and a 4.70/5 rating from 10 reviews in the Functionality & UI category.

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4.70
10 reviews
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10
Version
5.6.0
Manifest V3

History

10 snapshots

Tracking since Apr 1, 2026.

764.04727.5690.96Apr 1, 2026Jun 2, 2026
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DateUsersRatingReviewsVersion
Apr 1, 20267314.70105.6.0
Apr 16, 20266994.70105.6.0
Apr 22, 20267144.70105.6.0
Apr 27, 20267174.70105.6.0
May 2, 20266964.70105.6.0
May 7, 20266984.70105.6.0
May 14, 20267354.70105.6.0
May 19, 20267404.70105.6.0
May 23, 20267534.70105.6.0
Jun 2, 20267594.70105.6.0
Now7414.70105.6.0

Permissions & access

Permissions
activeTabcontextMenusscriptingstorage
Host access
*://*.retrotxt.com/*, https://*/, http://*/, file://*/

Screenshots

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About

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

Technical

Version
5.6.0
Manifest
V3
Size
8.39MiB
Min Chrome
106
Languages
2
Featured
Yes

Metadata

ID
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Developer ID
u3ef828316575136aa67a594503e6f4b1
Developer Email
[email protected]
Created
Apr 21, 2016
Last Updated (Store)
Feb 19, 2026
Last Scraped
Jun 2, 2026

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