How to Use the Markdown to Plain Text Converter
Pasting a blog draft or a Notion/GitHub document somewhere else often leaves raw Markdown symbols like #, **, [], and > sitting in the text with no formatting applied, which looks messy. This tool strips headings (#), bold (**), italics (_), links ([]()), blockquotes (>), and lists (-, 1.) from your Markdown text and returns clean plain text with just the content.
Link syntax keeps only the visible label text and drops the actual URL, and image syntax keeps only the alt text. Code blocks only have their surrounding ``` markers removed — the code itself and its line breaks stay intact, which makes this handy when sharing a code snippet elsewhere too.
It's especially useful when moving a document into a note app or email client that doesn't render Markdown, or when pasting into a place like a social post or chat that only accepts plain text.
Frequently Asked Questions
It only removes the surrounding ``` markers and keeps the inner text as-is. Line breaks and indentation inside the code block are preserved.
Table syntax isn't handled separately, so | and - characters may remain in the output. This tool is optimized for regular paragraphs, lists, and emphasis-heavy documents.