Free Text Tools Guide: Count, Clean, Convert and Sort Text in Seconds

Text is everywhere in daily work: essays with word limits, social posts with character limits, lists copied from spreadsheets, and paragraphs pasted from PDFs that arrive full of broken spacing. Our text tools handle these small jobs instantly. All 10 work in your browser, so what you paste stays on your device^[1].

This guide groups the tools by the job you are doing: measuring text, cleaning it, reshaping it, and generating placeholder text.

Measure your text

Word Counter shows words, characters, sentences and paragraphs as you type, plus estimated reading and speaking time. Paste from Word, Google Docs or a web page, or type straight into the box. It is built for essays and assignments with limits, articles briefed to a length, and personal statements. Check whether your limit includes titles, references and footnotes before you start cutting.

Character Counter is for platforms that limit characters rather than words: social posts, SMS messages, SEO titles and meta descriptions, app store listings and form fields. It shows totals with and without spaces, a breakdown of letters, digits, spaces and symbols, and progress bars for common platform limits. Put the most important words first, because long text is often cut off in previews.

Sentence Counter counts sentences, works out the average sentence length and highlights your longest sentence so you can shorten it. Readability guides commonly recommend an average of 15–20 words per sentence for general readers, and splitting anything over 25–30 words. Plain-language guidance, such as the U.S. government's plain language guide series, makes the same point: shorter sentences and familiar words help readers understand you the first time^[2].

Reading Time Calculator estimates how long a text takes to read silently and to speak aloud, at a speed you choose. Use about 200–250 words per minute for silent reading and 130–150 for speaking. That makes it useful for "5 min read" labels, speeches, presentations and video scripts.

Clean text you copied from somewhere else

Text copied from websites, PDFs and emails often carries hidden problems: HTML tags, invisible characters, curly quotes, odd line breaks and double spaces. They break code, spreadsheets, CMS editors and data imports in ways that are hard to spot.

Text Cleaner fixes these in one step. Tick what you need: strip HTML, remove invisible characters and emoji, straighten quotes and normalise whitespace. Straightening quotes matters before pasting into code or JSON, and removing invisible characters solves the classic "my search does not match even though the text looks identical" problem.

Remove Extra Spaces collapses repeated spaces, trims the start and end of lines and removes surplus blank lines while keeping your line breaks. It is the quick fix for text copied out of PDFs, or old documents with two spaces after every full stop. Leave "remove blank lines" off if you need paragraph breaks.

Reshape text and lists

Case Converter changes capitalisation in one click: sentence case, lower case, UPPER CASE and Title Case for writing, plus camelCase, PascalCase, snake_case and kebab-case for code. It saves retyping text written with Caps Lock on. Unlike CSS styling, which only changes how text is displayed (see MDN's text-transform reference), the converter changes the actual characters, so the result is correct wherever you paste it^[3]. Use kebab-case for URLs and file names: it is readable and search-friendly.

Duplicate Line Remover deletes repeated lines while keeping the first occurrence and the original order. It is ideal for email lists, keyword lists, URLs and product codes. Turn off case sensitivity for emails and keywords, and turn on "ignore spaces" for data copied from spreadsheets.

Text Sorter orders lines A–Z, Z–A, numerically, by length, or naturally, so "item2" comes before "item10". Natural sort is the right choice for file names and version numbers. It can also shuffle lines randomly for draws and quizzes, and remove duplicates while sorting.

Generate placeholder text

Lorem Ipsum Generator produces placeholder paragraphs, sentences or words for mock-ups and layouts, as plain text or wrapped in HTML paragraph tags. Placeholder text looks like real writing, so you can judge fonts, spacing and line length without readers getting distracted by meaning. Test with both long and short paragraphs to make sure your design handles real content.

Which tool should you use?

• Hitting a word limit: Word Counter.
• Hitting a character limit: Character Counter.
• Writing that feels heavy: Sentence Counter, then shorten the longest sentences.
• Messy pasted text: Text Cleaner, or Remove Extra Spaces for spacing only.
• Caps Lock accidents or code names: Case Converter.
• Lists with repeats or no order: Duplicate Line Remover and Text Sorter.
• A layout without content yet: Lorem Ipsum Generator.

A note on privacy

People paste all kinds of things into text tools: draft emails, contracts, student essays and customer lists. These tools process everything in your browser and never send your text to a server^[1]. When you close the page, it is gone.

The most used of the set is the Word Counter, and it is the natural starting point: paste your draft, then let the numbers tell you where to cut.