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ANSIpants

Retro text art for the future!

Arlo Fishman
Download on theApp Store
Store ratingNo rating
Price$5.99Listed price
Age4+Store age rating
Size6 MBiPhone download
CategoryLifestyle
DeveloperArlo Fishman

What we found

Full report

Too little checked to say Store information only. We haven’t analysed this app or read its reviews yet.

Money

  • $5.99 to download.

Not yet tested.

The store currently lists version 2.0.1, updated 2026-09-29.

Preview

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Store screenshots supplied by the developer.

About this app

ANSIpants is a full-featured ANSI and ASCII art studio for iPhone, iPad, and Mac.

Draw retro text art with modern tools: pressure-sensitive brushes, layers, true color, and a canvas that feels like a paint app.

Whether you're recreating the BBS art scene of the '90s or discovering textmode art for the first time, ANSIpants gives you serious drawing tools built for the medium.

GET COZY

• Pen, paint, smudge, dodge & burn, fill, box, oval, and text tools

• Adaptive line width and stitch modes for crisp diagonals

• Box and oval thickness controls tuned to the 2:1 character cell

• Velocity-sensitive brush size, scatter, and color shift

• Apple Pencil support on iPad…

From the developer’s store description.

For developers and the curious

The full report

The evidence, sources, measurements and versions behind every label above.

Findings and evidence

Not yet tested
Not yet tested. No analysis has been published for this app. A missing label is not a clean bill of health.

What reviewers report

No review coverage

No review analysis published for this app.

Measurements

2 measured · 6 not assessed

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From store data and reviews

Developer replies to reviews
Not assessed
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Price in the store description
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Cancelling, in the store description
The store description doesn’t say how to cancel (most don’t)
Themes reported by reviewers
Not assessed
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Five-star share of ratings
Not assessed
No rating histogram has been captured for this app

In the app package we scanned

No package has been scanned for this app, so nothing is published about what it ships. That is an absence of evidence, not a finding.

Sensitive permissions
Not assessed
No package has been scanned for this app
Analytics or tracking SDKs in the scanned package
Not assessed
No package has been scanned for this app
Advertising SDKs in the scanned package
Not assessed
No package has been scanned for this app
How we know

Supporting measurements: not a complete list of possible harms or positives. Measurement vocabulary 1.4 · how these are measured

Versions and dates analysed

Not yet tested

Not yet tested. No analysis has been run for this app, so there is no version or date to report.

Store update history

Each store’s release notes, as the developer wrote them. They are the developer’s words, not ours.

App Store

Version 2.0.1 · 2026-09-29
Many bug fixes and improvements. The soft launch continues! Canvas • The canvas draws CP437 characters from the IBM VGA 8x16 bitmap, matching the terminal and browser editions. A switch in About turns it off. • New app icon. Characters • The Unicode, CP437 and ASCII pickers use one scrolling grid. Picking a character keeps the picker open. Dragging across the grid adds characters to a Random pool. • ASCII document mode, alongside Unicode and Classic. • F1-F10 stamp glyphs from four banks on Mac and on iPad with a keyboard. • Hovering a character shows it enlarged with its name and code point. Save & Export • Formats are listed by extension: .ansipants, .png (optionally a 1920x1080…

Shortened here; the full notes are on the store listing.

Assessment record

Status
Not yet tested
App identifier
ansipants
Sources used
None recorded
Reviews read
None recorded
Package examined
No package scan
Human inspection
Not completed
How we know
Measurement vocabulary
1.4

Store facts

App Store

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App Store

Store rating
Not supplied
Version
2.0.1
Updated
29 Sep 2026
Price
$5.99
Age rating
4+
Size
6 MB
Open in App Store
Developer
Arlo Fishman
Category
Lifestyle
Listing price
$5.99

No itemized purchase list is available for this listing.

Method and limits

What this report can and cannot show

What a missing label means

Not yet tested. No analysis has been published for this app, so there is no method to describe for it yet. A missing label is not a clean bill of health: it means nothing has been read, not that nothing is wrong.

Limits of this report

  • A package scan is static. It identifies code and text in one Android build. It does not measure a live ad session, test a deletion request, or count the steps needed to cancel.
  • Reviews keep their sample. A review-only charge shows distinct reviewers, the share and the sample size, and is published only once it clears that label’s published threshold. Calibration labels are machine-drafted and not yet confirmed by a person.
  • Not assessed is a state. It is never a zero and never a pass.
  • A missing label is not a clean bill of health. It means the evidence did not support one, not that the app is problem-free.
Not yet human-reviewed. A human review gives an app hands-on, recorded measurements. None has been run for this app. Hands-on inspections are not yet open.
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