Text cleaner

Text cleanertidy any messy text in one click

A fast, free online text cleaner. Paste messy text and remove leftover formatting, double spaces, blank lines, and long dashes, so you get tidy, consistent plain text ready for any field or editor.

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What the text cleaner fixes

  • Markdown and formatting left over from copy and paste
  • HTML tags from web content
  • Double and trailing spaces collapsed to single spaces
  • Long dashes and double periods normalized
  • List markers tidied to consistent lines
Before
## Action  items


- Ship  the  build — today
- Email   the  team
After
Action items
- Ship the build, today
- Email the team

Clean in seconds

  1. 01

    Paste

    Paste the messy text you want to tidy up.

  2. 02

    Clean

    Formatting and spacing are normalized in one click.

  3. 03

    Copy

    Copy the tidy text, or download a .txt file.

Text cleaner questions

Is the text cleaner free?
Yes. It is completely free, with no sign-up and no limits, and it runs entirely in your browser.
Does it change the wording?
No. It only removes formatting and normalizes spacing and punctuation. Your words and their order stay the same.
Does it collapse extra spaces and blank lines?
Yes. Multiple spaces are collapsed to single spaces and empty lines are tidied, so the result reads cleanly.

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Clean up your text

Paste messy text and get a tidy result in one click. Free, no sign-up.

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