Text File Viewers & Analyzers
Ansi Art Viewer
View ANSI art files from the BBS era. Render escape codes, colors, and block characters. Browser-based retro art viewer, works offline.
Log Viewer
View and analyze log files with real-time filtering, syntax highlighting, and search. Perfect for debugging server logs, application logs, and system logs.
Nfo Viewer
View NFO files with proper CP437 rendering. Read scene release information with ASCII art preserved. Browser-based, works offline.
Diff Viewer
Compare text files side-by-side or in unified format. Highlight additions, deletions, and changes. Perfect for code review and document comparison.
Advanced Text File Viewing
Plain text files form the foundation of computing—configuration files, logs, source code, data exports. Our text viewers provide enhanced viewing with syntax highlighting, line numbering, encoding detection, and analysis features that go beyond basic text editors.
Syntax Highlighting
Code and configuration files become readable with language-aware syntax highlighting. JSON keys, XML tags, code keywords, and strings are colored distinctly, making structure and errors immediately visible. Our viewer supports dozens of languages and file formats automatically.
Character Encoding Detection
Text files can use various encodings—UTF-8, ASCII, Windows-1252, ISO-8859-1, and legacy encodings. Incorrect encoding displays garbled characters. Our viewer detects encoding automatically and allows manual override to fix mojibake and display text correctly.
Log File Analysis
Server logs, application logs, and system logs generate massive text files. View them with line numbers, search for specific patterns, and jump to errors. Large log files that crash basic text editors open smoothly in the browser.
Common Use Cases
- Configuration review: View .ini, .conf, .env files with syntax highlighting to spot errors
- Log debugging: Search and analyze application logs without downloading
- Data inspection: Preview CSV, TSV, and other delimited text before import
- Cross-platform viewing: Read Windows line endings on Mac/Linux and vice versa