Text tools

Clean up, count and reshape text in seconds

Text arrives messy. A copied spreadsheet column has duplicate lines, an export has stray double spaces, a contract draft needs a word count, and a list of names needs sorting. Doing these edits by hand is slow and error-prone, and this category handles them in one paste-and-click step each.

The tools split roughly into counting and analysis, cleanup, transformation and playful formatting. Writers check character limits and word frequency, marketers extract email addresses or URLs from a block of copy, developers strip whitespace or number lines, and students try a Caesar cipher or the NATO phonetic alphabet.

A few tools speak text aloud or show what hides inside a string, such as the Unicode inspector, which is handy when a stray invisible character breaks a form. Combine them freely: remove line breaks, deduplicate the result, then sort it. Keep the original text until you have checked the output, since a cleanup step cannot always be undone once you paste over your source.

Common questions

How is a word counted?

The counters treat any run of characters separated by whitespace as one word. Hyphenated terms and numbers therefore count as one word each, which matches how most word processors report length.

Why does my text look fine but still fail a form?

Hidden characters such as non-breaking spaces, zero-width joiners or unusual line endings can pass through copy and paste unseen. The Unicode inspector and whitespace remover show and strip them so the text validates.

Can I keep the original order when removing duplicate lines?

Yes. The duplicate remover keeps the first occurrence of each line where it appeared, so the order of your list is preserved. If you want a sorted result, run the alphabetizer afterward as a separate step.