Markdown to plain text
Take the markdown off and leave the prose. What you get is what a reader reads: the link text without the URL, the heading without the hashes, the list without the dashes.
The result appears here as you type.
How it works
- Front matter, fenced code and inline code come out entirely, because none of it is prose.
- A link keeps its text and loses its URL, which is the whole point: a reader reads the text.
- Image markup goes, heading hashes go, emphasis markers go, list markers go, and the words stay where they were.
- Blank lines are preserved, so paragraphs are still paragraphs.
What it does not do
- A table loses its shape. There is no way to keep columns in plain text without padding them, and padded columns are not plain text either.
- This is not the same as the markdown a renderer ignores: it is the text a person would read aloud.
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.
Why would I want this?
Pasting into something with no markdown at all: a form, an email, a CMS field, a chat window that shows the asterisks. Also for counting words, which is what the word counter does with the same engine.
Does it keep the URLs?
No. If you need them, the checker lists every link in a document, or use markdown to HTML and read the hrefs.
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 →