What formatting gets removed?

Heading hashes, bold and italic markers, inline code backticks, fenced code blocks, blockquote arrows, horizontal rules, and list bullets. What remains is the readable text content.

How are links handled?

You choose. The default keeps the visible text and appends the URL in parentheses; you can also keep just the link text or output only the bare URL, depending on where the text is going.

Does it keep my paragraph breaks?

Yes. Blank lines between paragraphs are preserved so the structure reads naturally, and list items are turned into clean lines rather than being mashed together.

What happens to code blocks?

Fenced code blocks keep their inner lines but lose the triple-backtick fences, so the code is preserved as plain text without the markdown wrapper.

When would I use this over the HTML converter?

Use plain text when the destination cannot render formatting at all — a plain-text email, an SMS, a CSV cell, a code comment, or a form field. Use the HTML converter when the destination is a web page or rich editor.

Markdown → Plain Text Converter

Markdown to clean prose

Sometimes you don’t want the formatting at all. You’re pasting an LLM answer into a plain-text email, an SMS, a form field, or a code comment — somewhere **bold** and ## headings would show up as literal symbols. This converter strips every markdown marker and leaves you with clean, readable prose that keeps its paragraph structure.

How it works

The converter walks the markdown and removes formatting tokens while keeping content: heading hashes drop, ** and * and ` markers are peeled away, blockquote > arrows and list bullets become plain lines, and code fences are removed while their inner lines stay. Links are the one judgment call, so you choose how to render them.

## Title              ->  Title
- **fast** setup      ->  fast setup
[docs](http://x.com)  ->  docs (http://x.com)

Tips and notes

For email, the default “text (url)” link style keeps URLs clickable-looking without the markdown brackets. If the text is going somewhere truly minimal, choose “text only” to drop URLs entirely. To remove AI preambles and sign-offs as well as formatting, run the output through the AI Boilerplate Stripper afterward.