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Strip Markdown

Remove Markdown formatting and keep the plain text — headings, emphasis, links, lists and tables.

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Strip Markdown
Paste a Markdown document and get its plain text back. The tool removes heading hashes, bold and italic markers, strikethrough, blockquote arrows, list bullets and numbering, horizontal rules and table pipes, and it unwraps links and images so only the readable words remain. Use it to turn a README into copy for a document, prepare Markdown notes for an email or chat that does not render formatting, count or analyze the actual words of a post, or feed clean text to a translation or text-to-speech workflow.
Links keep their visible text by default; turn on "Keep link URLs" and the address follows in parentheses, so no destination is lost. Images are reduced to their alt text. Code is treated with care: the backticks around inline code and the fence lines around code blocks disappear, but the code itself is kept exactly as written — nothing inside a code block is mistaken for formatting. Tables become plain lines with the cells separated by spaces, and the separator rows of dashes vanish entirely.
The stripper understands both # heading styles and their setext underlines, nested blockquotes and lists, task-list checkboxes, reference-style links with their definition lines, autolinks in angle brackets and backslash escapes, which come back as the literal character. Windows and Unix line endings are handled the same way.
Everything runs locally in your browser — the document is never uploaded, so internal documentation and unpublished drafts stay on your device. The tally under the output shows how many characters of formatting were removed, and the result can be copied or downloaded as a .txt file.
FAQ
What happens to links and images?
A link keeps its visible text and an image keeps its alt text. Enable "Keep link URLs" to append the address in parentheses after the text instead of dropping it.
Is code inside the document preserved?
Yes. The fence lines and backticks are removed, but the code between them is kept exactly as written — asterisks or underscores in code are never treated as formatting.
How are tables converted?
Each table row becomes one plain line with the cell contents separated by spaces. The dash-and-pipe separator rows under the header are removed entirely.
Does it also remove HTML tags?
No, raw HTML inside Markdown is left untouched. Run the result through the remove HTML tags tool if your document mixes both.
Is my document uploaded anywhere?
No. The tool runs entirely in your browser and your text never leaves your device.