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What this online text editor does
This is a text editor that runs in your browser. It opens as plain text, so there are no fonts, colors or pictures. What you copy out is exactly what you typed. It pastes cleanly into an email, a form, a chat or a code file. The Rich text tab adds bold, lists, links and tables when you need them. To keep many short notes at once, use the online notepad instead.
- Type or pasteStart writing right away. There is no sign up and nothing to install.
- It saves as you goEach pause in typing saves your text in this browser. The counts under the editor update as you type.
- Keep a filePress Ctrl+S to save a .txt file. Press Ctrl+O, or drop a file on the page, to open one.
Where is my text saved?
Your text is saved in this browser, on this device, in a small database that every browser has built in. It is called IndexedDB. Your text is not sent to our server. We never see it, so we can't get it back for you either.
- Your keyboardYou type in the editor.
- This browserType in the editor to see it save.
- Our serverNever. Nothing is sent.
The text stays when you close the tab or restart the computer. It is gone if you clear the browsing data for this site, or if you write in a private window. Another browser or another device will not have it either.
For anything that matters, keep a copy. Press Ctrl+S or click Save to store a .txt file on your computer.
How words and characters are counted
In English, words end at spaces. Chinese, Japanese and Thai don't put spaces between words, so a simple counter sees a whole sentence as one word. This editor uses the word rules built into your browser, which know where words end in those languages.
Characters are harder. The editor counts what you see. A family emoji like 👨👩👧 looks like one character, but it is made of 5 code points, and some apps count it as 8. Type anything below to see how each character is built.
A code point is one entry in the Unicode list. UTF-16 units are what JavaScript, Java and Windows count, and many sites use that number for their limits. Hover over the character count under the editor to see both numbers for your own text.
Character limits on popular sites
Many sites cap how long a post can be, and they count in different ways. X counts most emoji and Chinese characters as 2, and every link as 23. A text message switches to a much lower limit as soon as it has one emoji or curly quote.
Limits checked in October 2026 in the X counting rules and YouTube Help. The SMS numbers come from the GSM standard that phones use.
A plain text message fits 160 characters. One character outside the basic phone alphabet, like an emoji, drops that to 70. Longer messages are sent in parts of 153 or 67 characters, and many plans charge for each part.
Quick text fixes with Ctrl+K
Press Ctrl+K in the editor (Cmd+K on a Mac) to open the text tools. Type a few letters to find one, then press Enter. A tool changes only the selected text, or all of it when nothing is selected. Ctrl+Z undoes it.
The menu also has more case changes, line numbers, fancy letters and a link to every tool on this site. For all the case styles in one place, use the tool to change text case.
Plain text, rich text or HTML?
Plain text is letters and line breaks, nothing more. Rich text adds bold, links and pictures, like a Word file. HTML is the code behind web pages. Pick the tool by what you want to make.
- Write notes, lists or a draftAaThis editor. Plain text that pastes anywhere.
- Write with bold, lists and linksB I UThe rich text editor. Copy it formatted into email or Word.
- Format a web page<b> <a>The visual HTML editor, with clean code.
- Open a Word file.docxThe Word editor opens and saves .docx files.
- Make my bio stand out𝓕𝓪𝓷𝓬𝔂The fancy text generator with every style.
- Find a symbol→ ★ ©Special characters to copy and paste.
Fancy letters are real Unicode characters, so they paste into places that have no bold button. See how they work on the Unicode font styles page. Need the number behind a letter? Look it up in the ASCII table.
How the Plain text and Rich text tabs work
The two tabs above the sheet show the same text. Plain text is the fast one: it opens at once and the find bar and the Ctrl+K line tools work there. The Rich text tab loads a formatting toolbar the first time you click it. It keeps bold, headings, lists, links and tables, and both tabs save in this browser.
When you switch tabs, your text comes along. Text from the rich tab arrives in the plain tab without its formatting. If you switch back without typing, the rich tab still has its bold and links. Ctrl+Z undoes a switch that changed the text. "Copy as formatted text" puts the text on the clipboard twice: once with the formatting, for Gmail, Outlook, Word or Google Docs, and once as plain words, for apps that take nothing else. The full rich text editor has a bigger sheet, text colors and font sizes.
Keyboard shortcuts
| What it does | Windows and Linux | Mac |
|---|---|---|
| Save to a file | Ctrl + S | ⌘ + S |
| Open a file | Ctrl + O | ⌘ + O |
| Find | Ctrl + F | ⌘ + F |
| Find and replace | Ctrl + H | ⌘ + Option + F |
| Text tools | Ctrl + K | ⌘ + K |
| Undo | Ctrl + Z | ⌘ + Z |
| Redo | Ctrl + Y | ⌘ + Shift + Z |
| Bold, italic, underline (Rich text tab) | Ctrl + B, I, U | ⌘ + B, I, U |
| Focus mode | Ctrl + Shift + F | ⌘ + Shift + F |
| Close find or focus mode | Esc | Esc |
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