Below you will find a catalog of online text manipulation tools. Whether you need to clean up messy text, convert text between formats, or perform other text transformations, these tools can assist you.
Remove HTML formatting from your text quickly and easily. Perfect for cleaning up content from web pages.
Count words, characters, pages and reading time as you type, or drop in a PDF or Word file to count it.
Score your text with Flesch Reading Ease, Flesch-Kincaid, Gunning Fog, SMOG and two more formulas, and see which sentences make it hard to read.
Character limits for social media, search results and advertising - with the point where each one is cut off, not just the cap.
Transform your text between different cases: UPPERCASE, lowercase, Title Case, and more.
Compare two texts and find the differences instantly. Perfect for documents, code, or any text content.
Cleanly and instantly escape special characters like quotes, backslashes, newlines and tabs using this free online text escaper.
Convert accented characters to their non-accented counterparts. Perfect for creating clean URLs, slugs, and filenames.
Remove all spaces, condense double spaces, or replace spaces with an underscore, dash, comma or %20.
Get rid of line breaks or replace them with characters of your choice.
Strip repeated lines from a list, keep only the unique ones, or see exactly which lines were doubled up.
Take the timestamps, cue numbers and subtitle timings out of a YouTube, Zoom, Teams or Otter transcript, and get the sentences back as readable paragraphs.
Put any list in alphabetical order, A to Z or Z to A: words, names by last name, titles without The and A, and reference lists.
Divide text or strings into individual lines using any delimiter or character.
Count how many times each letter appears in your text, with vowels, consonants and a comparison with normal English.
Find the words and phrases you repeat, see them marked in your text, and get a full word frequency count.
Decode Base64 to text, or back to the image, PDF or file it holds. Encode text and files to Base64 or a data URI.
Generate strong, secure passwords with customizable options for better online protection.
Clean up whitespace in your text. Remove spaces, tabs, and line breaks - with settings if you need to.
Convert between epoch unix timestamps and human-readable dates easily. Convert, calculate and compare timestamps.
Convert numbers to words, or write an amount in words for a cheque or invoice in rupees, dollars, pounds or euros.
Convert numbers and dates to Roman numerals and back, check that a numeral is written right, and see a date for a tattoo in different lettering.
Create Markdown tables in a simple editor, paste them in from Excel, Google Sheets or CSV, and copy any Markdown table back into a spreadsheet.
Copy and paste bold text for Instagram, X, TikTok and Discord: sans, serif, bold italic, script and gothic, plus an editor that bolds only the words you choose and turns bold text back to normal.
Write in cursive for an Instagram bio, a TikTok name or a tattoo idea: bold script, thin script and four italics, with a side-by-side preview of every style.
Make tiny raised text, subscript or small caps for names and bios, raise or lower single characters for x², H₂O and 1ˢᵗ, and see which letters exist in each style.
Change the font of a Facebook post, comment or bio with bold, italic, cursive and gothic text, plus the real formatting shortcuts Messenger understands.
Style a LinkedIn post in bold or italic and see where the feed folds it away - 140 characters on mobile, 210 on desktop.
Instagram throws away the blank lines in captions and bios. This adds invisible spacers so your spacing survives posting.
Copy a Hangul Filler or another blank character for an empty WhatsApp message or a blank name on Discord, TikTok and Instagram, and check what you copied.
Flip your text upside down or backwards. Copy the flipped text or embed as unicode, if you are a developer.
Create bubbled / circled text. Rounded text either filled or outlined that's perfect for standing out.
Repeat any text, word or emoji 10, 100 or 1000 times, and see whether it fits in WhatsApp, an SMS, Instagram or X.
Type in specific characters you want to remove from your text. Say bye-bye to unwanted symbols, numbers, and more.
Take out every symbol, emoji and special character at once, and keep the letters, numbers and spaces.
Find and replace words, names or any piece of text, with as many find-and-replace pairs as you need, all applied at once.
Escape special characters in strings just like the PHP addslashes() function.
Submit your website URL to check if it's getting accessed and indexed by AI chatbots.
No text tool matches that. Try the HTML tools or the AI text tools, or show all text tools.
If you often find yourself working with text online — cleaning, formatting, converting — you'll love this curated catalog of handy, no-nonsense tools.
These are small, focused web apps that do one thing really well: help you get your work done faster and without the fuss. Whether you're removing weird line breaks, converting rich text to plain, or checking word count in a cleaner interface, these tools are built for folks like us who wrangle words for a living.
They're fast, clean, and don't try to upsell you five seconds after loading the page.
If what you are cleaning up came out of a chatbot, the AI text tools are the ones to start with — em dashes, curly quotes, invisible characters and leftover Markdown all have their own tool over there.
One of the things I love most about this catalog is how each tool solves a very specific, everyday problem — but does it without noise.
You won't find bloated interfaces or endless settings here. Just simple, focused utilities that do what they promise. These tools are made with real-world workflows in mind.
They're quick to load, easy to use, and honestly, kind of satisfying. It's the kind of stuff you end up bookmarking and sending to your coworkers, because once you use it, you wonder why everything else feels so overcomplicated.
I've been collecting and sharing tools like this for years — mostly for myself, but also for friends and colleagues who get just as frustrated with clunky apps and bloated extensions.
If you find something in the catalog that saves you time or just makes your day a little easier, consider sharing it with someone else. These tools aren't backed by big tech — they're just made by people who needed something better and decided to build it.