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Markdown to Plain Text — Clean Prose, Syntax Stripped

Strip markdown syntax to clean readable prose — headings, emphasis, links, and tables normalized — for email, docs, and plain-text previews.

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How to use Markdown to Plain Text

  1. 1Paste markdown in the left pane.
  2. 2The clean prose appears on the right — emphasis unwrapped, links kept as 'text (url)', tables aligned.
  3. 3Copy the text or download it as .txt.

Markdown to Plain Text FAQ

What happens to links and images?
Links keep their readable text and append the URL in parentheses when it differs (e.g. "the docs (https://example.com)") so information is never lost. Images reduce to their alt text.
What happens to tables and code blocks?
Tables are kept as readable aligned text tables. Fenced code blocks are preserved verbatim between markers — their content is never mangled, because code is already plain text.
Why not just delete the markup characters?
Naive stripping glues words together ("**bold**text") and loses structure. This converter is structure-aware: emphasis unwraps to words, list markers become bullets/dashes, headings become Title Case lines, and paragraphs keep their breaks.
Is my draft uploaded?
Never — conversion is pure string processing in your browser, and the strict Content-Security-Policy blocks every outbound connection.