What the text tools cover
Text pasted from another program usually arrives with formatting nobody wants. These tools fix the common cases: counting words and characters, changing case, reversing or mirroring a string, stripping or adding indentation, converting between a CSV row and a list, escaping text for JSON, SQL or a regular expression, and comparing two versions with the diff checker. There are also generators for placeholder text and URL slugs, plus ROT13 and binary encoders.
Definitions matter more than they look. The word counter counts whitespace-separated tokens, which is what most writing tools do, but a hyphenated compound counts as one word here and may count as two elsewhere. Character counts include spaces unless the page says otherwise. The reading time estimate assumes an adult reading speed of roughly 200 to 250 words per minute.
Practical notes
- Every tool works on what you paste, in the browser, with nothing sent anywhere. Drafts and private notes are safe here.
- Case converters handle acronyms and apostrophes sensibly but cannot know that a word is a proper noun. Check names after a title-case pass.
- Very large pastes are limited by browser memory rather than a server quota.
The newer tools handle lists and cleanup: find and replace with regex, remove duplicate lines, sort lines naturally, clean up whitespace and line breaks from PDFs, count word frequency, add a prefix or suffix to every line, wrap at a column, truncate to a limit, extract emails, URLs and numbers, strip special characters, split sentences, and strip Markdown or HTML tags. For converting rather than cleaning there are numbers to words in Indian or international style, Roman numerals, fancy Unicode text, Morse code and the NATO phonetic alphabet.