Remove Markdown Formatting

How to Use

1. Paste Markdown into the input box — the plain text updates live as you type
2. Toggle Keep list markers if you want bullets and numbering preserved
3. Check the character and word count under the output
4. Click Copy or Download to grab the clean text

Convert Markdown to Plain Text

Markdown is great inside editors that render it, but the raw syntax is noise everywhere else. This tool removes Markdown formatting completely: heading hashes (##), bold and italic markers (**, *, _), strikethrough tildes, blockquote arrows, horizontal rules, and table pipes all disappear, leaving only the words. Links keep their visible text and drop the [text](url) markup, images are reduced to their alt text, and the contents of code blocks are preserved exactly as written — only the backtick fences are removed.

The most common reason people need this today is cleaning up AI output. ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini all answer in Markdown, so a response pasted into an email, a CRM note, a job application form, an Instagram caption, or a plain-text editor arrives littered with asterisks and pound signs. Paste the answer here and copy out text that reads naturally anywhere. It also works the other way: writers drafting in Markdown can strip the markup before submitting to platforms that want plain text, and use the live character and word count to check submission limits as they go.

The Keep list markers option controls how lists are flattened. Off, list items become bare lines of text. On, bullets are kept as - and numbered items keep their 1. prefixes, which is usually what you want for emails and notes. Everything runs locally in your browser — nothing you paste is uploaded to a server.

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