Markdown to RTF
RTF is the format everything still reads: Word, TextEdit, WordPad, mail clients, and any field that takes formatted text but not markdown. This turns one into the other in your browser.
The result appears here as you type.
How it works
- Headings become sized bold paragraphs, because RTF has no heading styles the way .docx does.
- Bold, italic, strikethrough and inline code become RTF's own switches, and a link keeps its text.
- Lists become indented bullets with a hanging indent, which is what RTF readers expect.
- Anything outside ASCII is escaped as RTF requires, so accents and other alphabets survive.
What it does not do
- No tables. RTF's table model is a row of cell boundaries measured in twips, and getting it wrong produces a file that Word refuses rather than one that looks slightly off.
- No images. RTF embeds them as hex, which would make the file enormous for something you can paste in afterwards.
- If you want headings that behave like headings, use the Word converter: a .docx has real heading styles and RTF does not.
Questions
Is my markdown uploaded?
No. The conversion runs in your browser with code that is already part of this page. There is no upload endpoint on this site, so the file cannot reach us even in principle. Open your browser's network tab and watch: no request carries your document.
RTF or .docx?
A .docx if the destination is Word: it has real heading styles, tables, and a navigation pane that works. RTF if the destination is anything else that wants formatted text, because everything reads RTF and rather less reads .docx.
Related tools
Converting more than one file
Not released yetThis page converts the file in front of you, and it always will. The app works on the folder: point it at a directory and convert everything in it at once, offline, without a browser in the way.
For iPhone, iPad and Mac. It is not in the App Store, so there is nothing to download from this page yet.Digital Sandbox, who are building it →