TheDraw is a text editor for MS-DOS to create ANSI and animations as well as ASCII art.

The editor is especially useful to create or modify files in ANSI format and text documents, which use the graphical characters of the IBM ASCII code pages, because they are not supported by Microsoft Windows anymore.

The first version of the editor was developed in 1986 by Ian E. Davis of TheSoft Programming Services.

The column width can be extended from the standard 80 characters to 160, but this also reduces the row limit down to 50.

Used with Windows Vista however, TheDraw performs with less predictable results.