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Markdown to Plain Text (ChatGPT Formatting Remover)

Strip Markdown — asterisks, hashes, bullets and code fences — from ChatGPT answers to get clean plain text.

ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini answer in Markdown, so pasting into email, Word or a CMS often leaves stray asterisks, hashes and pipes. Paste the answer to strip the formatting symbols and keep clean paragraphs, lists and tables.

Plain text

Runs in your browser; nothing is uploaded.

How It Works

Using Markdown to Plain Text (ChatGPT Formatting Remover)

1

Paste Markdown

An AI answer, README or any Markdown text.

2

Choose how to keep structure

Keep bullets as • or -, keep link URLs or not, keep or drop code blocks, and turn tables into tab-separated rows.

3

Copy the plain text

Paste it anywhere without ** or ## showing up.

Why Use This Tool

What you get with Markdown to Plain Text (ChatGPT Formatting Remover)

Removes **bold**, *italics*, # headings, > quotes, ``` fences and horizontal rules

Keeps lists readable and turns tables into rows you can paste into Excel or Google Sheets

Converts [links](url) to text, URL or both

Runs in your browser

Works Great With

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Strip invisible characters and odd spaces after removing Markdown.

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Markdown symbols and what they become

MarkdownPlain text
## HeadingHeading
**bold** / *italic*bold / italic
- item• item (or - item, or item)
[text](https://url)text, url, or text (url)
`code`code
> quotequote
| a | b |a[tab]b

Clean hidden characters too with the AI text cleaner, and count prompt length with the LLM token counter.

FAQ

Markdown to Plain Text (ChatGPT Formatting Remover) questions

The answer is written in Markdown, a lightweight formatting language. Apps that do not render Markdown show the raw symbols: ** for bold, # for headings and - for bullets.

If the destination supports rich text, copy from the chat interface’s rendered view or use its copy button. To remove formatting entirely, use this converter.

Table rows become lines with tab-separated cells, so they paste neatly into spreadsheets. The separator row (|---|---|) is removed.

No. Only Markdown symbols are removed; the words stay exactly the same.

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