Remove brackets
Remove bracketed content from text, or just the bracket characters, in one pass.
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Remove brackets
Remove brackets strips bracketed content from any text. Paste a paragraph and it deletes each pair — round ( ), square [ ], curly { } and, when you turn it on, angle < > — together with everything inside. It is the fast way to clean up citations like "(Smith, 2019)", editorial notes like "[draft]", inline annotations and templating placeholders that clutter a passage you want to read or publish.
Two modes cover the common jobs. "Brackets and the content inside" is the default: it removes the whole bracketed stretch, so "Result (see appendix) is final" becomes "Result is final". "Only the bracket characters" keeps the words and drops just the symbols, turning "call(arg)" into "callarg" — handy when the brackets are noise but the text between them matters. Toggle each bracket type on its own, so you can remove square brackets while leaving parentheses in place.
Nesting is handled properly. A stack-based scan matches each closer to the nearest opener of its type, so nested pairs like "(a (b) c)" and mixed pairs like "[a (b)]" disappear cleanly from the inside out. An unmatched closing bracket is treated as ordinary text and left alone; an unmatched opening bracket removes only through the end of its line, never across a line break, so a stray "(" can't swallow the rest of the document. The optional "Tidy up spaces" step then collapses the double spaces removal creates, pulls spaces back off punctuation and trims line ends.
Everything runs locally in your browser, so even long documents stay private and process instantly as you type.