Markdown to Plain Text

What this tool does

Remove Markdown formatting and the asterisks, hashes, and bullets that ChatGPT, Claude, and other AI assistants leave behind. Headings, bold, italic, links, lists, blockquotes, tables, and code fences are reduced to readable text, and invisible characters that survive a copy are cleaned up. Your words are never rewritten.

Why AI output has asterisks in it

ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini all reply in Markdown. Inside the chat window that renders as bold text, headings, and bullet lists. Copy it into Word, Gmail, LinkedIn, or a CMS that does not render Markdown and the raw syntax shows up literally — the asterisks around **bold**, the hashes in front of headings, and the backticks around code.

Removing that formatting is what this tool does. It strips Markdown syntax while keeping the words, list structure, and code contents intact, and it clears out the zero-width characters and non-breaking spaces that often survive a copy and make pasted text behave strangely.

What it keeps and what it removes

• Headings lose their hashes and keep the title text.
• Bold, italic, and strikethrough markers are removed; the words stay.
• Bulleted and numbered lists keep their markers, so a list still reads as a list.
• Links keep the visible text and drop the URL; images become their alt text.
• Code fences and backticks are removed, and the code inside is left exactly as written.
• Tables lose their pipes and alignment row, and cells are separated by tabs.
• Blockquote markers and horizontal rules are removed.

Your prose is never rewritten. Smart quotes, apostrophes, em dashes, accented characters, and non-English text are all left exactly as you pasted them — this tool removes formatting syntax, nothing else.

Privacy

The text is cleaned locally in your browser. Nothing is uploaded, stored on our servers, or tracked.

Use cases

• Paste an AI answer into Word, Gmail, or a CMS without stray asterisks
• Strip Markdown from a README or ticket before sharing it as prose
• Clean up copied documentation for a plain-text field or form

Working with tables instead?

This tool flattens a Markdown table into tab-separated lines as part of cleaning prose. To convert a table into CSV or TSV for a spreadsheet — or to turn spreadsheet data into a Markdown table — Markdown Table ↔ CSV handles quoting, escaped pipes, and ragged rows properly.