Markdown to Plain Text

How to use

1. 1Paste or type Markdown into the input on the left. Counts for characters, words, and lines update as you edit.
2. 2Pick a preset (Readable prose, Keep link URLs, Compact, or Text to speech) to load a sensible default set of options for that use case.
3. 3Adjust individual options to fine-tune how links, images, lists, code blocks, tables, footnotes, blockquotes, and horizontal rules are handled.
4. 4The plain text version updates instantly on the right. Use Copy plain text to send the result to your clipboard.
5. 5Use Load sample to drop in a Markdown demo with every supported construct, or Clear input to start over.

About this tool

Markdown to Plain Text strips every common Markdown construct and returns clean readable text you can paste into emails, CMS fields, voice scripts, content briefs, or anywhere plain prose is the right format. Headings lose their # markers, bold and italic markers are removed, inline code spans keep their content without backticks, fenced and indented code blocks are kept verbatim or dropped, ordered and unordered lists keep their numbering and bullets (or get flattened to paragraphs), GitHub-style task lists become [ ] and [x] glyphs, pipe tables render as aligned plain-text rows, block quotes are indented or unprefixed, horizontal rules collapse, autolinks become bare URLs, inline and reference-style links keep just their text (or append the URL in parentheses), images keep their alt text in brackets or get removed, footnote markers become numbered references with the definitions listed at the end, backslash escapes drop the backslash and keep the literal character, and HTML entities like &, ©, and ' decode into their characters. Four presets cover the most common cases: Readable prose for clean articles and READMEs, Keep link URLs for documents where the destinations matter, Compact for tight summaries that drop images, tables, and code, and Text to speech for voice scripts that need a minimal stream. Every option can be toggled individually, so you can fine-tune exactly how lists, tables, code, blockquotes, horizontal rules, and footnotes are handled. Any embedded HTML left in the input is stripped in a second pass so raw markup never leaks through. Useful for newsletter authors converting markdown drafts to mail-friendly text, support teams cleaning up tickets, content teams turning READMEs into plain documentation, accessibility teams preparing screen-reader copy, podcast hosts extracting show notes, and developers exporting markdown content to text-only contexts. Your Markdown is parsed locally in your browser, so the input never leaves your device.

Free to use. Works in your browser. No signup, no login.