Remove Markdown Formatting
Paste Markdown and get clean plain text: no hashes, asterisks, backticks, or link syntax. Choose whether to keep list bullets and link URLs.
Everything runs in your browser. Your text is never uploaded or stored.
What gets removed
- Heading hashes (
##) while the heading text itself stays. - Bold, italic, and strikethrough markers:
**,*,__,_, and~~. - Inline code backticks and fenced code blocks, keeping the code text.
- Link and image syntax.
[text](url)becomes just the text, or text plus the URL in parentheses if you keep URLs on. - Blockquote markers, horizontal rules, and excess blank lines.
When plain text beats formatting
Markdown is great inside editors that render it, and noise everywhere else. Pasting a README into an email, moving a ChatGPT answer into a plain-text CMS field, sending copy to a client in a chat app: all of these read badly with raw markers scattered through the text. Stripping them once here beats deleting them one by one.
Two useful options
Keep list bullets preserves the visual structure of lists using a plain bullet character, which survives in any environment. Keep link URLs appends each link target in parentheses, so the reader can still reach the destination from plain text. Both run locally in your browser.
Frequently asked questions
Does it keep the text inside bold and italic markers?
Yes. Only the marker characters are removed. The words themselves, including code and link text, always remain.
What happens to tables?
Table rows keep their pipe layout as plain text. If you need a real spreadsheet, use the Markdown Table to Excel tool instead.
Can I keep the URLs from links?
Yes. Turn on the keep URLs option and each link becomes its text followed by the address in parentheses.
Does it handle nested formatting like bold inside a list?
Yes. Markers are stripped wherever they appear, including inside list items, quotes, and headings.
Is my text uploaded?
No. Everything runs in your browser and the text never leaves your device.
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