Text Formatter
Trim, normalise quotes & punctuation.
Your text never leaves your browser
Hides your text behind a privacy screen so no one nearby can read it. Your text stays in the box and keeps counting.Cleanup runs automatically as you type — copy the tidied result on the right.
Processed entirely in your browser. Nothing is uploaded.
About the Text Formatter
Text Formatter is a general cleanup pass: it trims each line, collapses extra spacing, normalises curly "smart" quotes and dashes to plain equivalents, and fixes spacing around punctuation. One click for consistently formatted text.
It is a plain text formatter: it produces clean, portable text rather than the substituted Unicode characters that make text look bold on LinkedIn or Instagram. If that is what you are after, the Unicode Text Formatter does exactly that job — and converts such text back to plain again, which is the other half of what this tool is for.
Great for reconciling text pasted from many sources into one clean style. Your text never leaves your browser — everything is computed locally.
Common uses
- Unifying text pasted from Word, web, and email.
- Converting smart quotes to plain quotes for code or CSV.
- Fixing stray spaces before commas and periods.
Frequently asked questions
What exactly does it change?
It trims edges, collapses repeated whitespace, converts curly quotes/apostrophes and en/em dashes to plain forms, and removes spaces before punctuation.
Will it change meaning?
No — it only normalises formatting and whitespace, never your actual wording.
Does it keep paragraphs?
Yes, paragraph breaks are preserved while spacing within lines is tidied.