Markdown is great for writing, but not every destination understands
it. Paste **important** into a plain-text email or an SMS and your
reader sees the asterisks, not bold text.
Our new Markdown to Plain Text tool strips the syntax and keeps the words:
- Headers lose their
#markers, bold/italic markers disappear - Links keep their visible text, drop the URL
- Images become their alt text
- Code fences and inline code keep their content, lose the backticks
- List and blockquote markers vanish while the text stays
It’s honest about what it is: a fast, regex-based stripper, not a full CommonMark parser. Everyday Markdown — the kind in a README draft or a Slack message — converts cleanly; deeply nested or unusual structures are a known limit.
As with every tool here, conversion happens entirely in your browser — nothing you paste is uploaded. The tool is also embeddable with a single iframe.