ChatGPT Text Cleaner
Copied a great answer from ChatGPT and pasted a mess? Stray asterisks, # signs, weird spaces and curly quotes — paste it here and get clean, plain text ready for email, Word, or your CMS.
🔒 Runs 100% in your browser — your text never leaves this page.
Why ChatGPT text looks broken when you paste it
ChatGPT writes answers in Markdown — **asterisks** for bold, # for headings, backticks for code. The chat window renders these as formatting, but when you copy the text into a plain-text field (an email subject, a CRM note, a YouTube description, a form), the raw symbols come along for the ride. On top of that, the interface inserts typographic characters — curly quotes, em dashes, narrow no-break spaces — that look subtly wrong in many fonts and get flagged by some systems.
What gets fixed
Enable the Markdown leftovers toggle above and the cleaner strips **bold**, *italic*, # headings, backtick code markers, ~~strikethrough~~ and converts [links](url) to their text. The default toggles simultaneously normalize smart quotes to straight quotes, convert em dashes (your choice of comma, hyphen or space), replace exotic spaces with regular ones, and delete the invisible characters that ChatGPT output often carries.
Typical workflow
1. Copy the answer from ChatGPT (or Claude, or Gemini — same issues). 2. Paste it in the left box. 3. Toggle "Markdown leftovers" if you see asterisks or # signs. 4. Copy the cleaned result from the right box. The whole thing takes five seconds and runs entirely in your browser — nothing is uploaded, so it is safe for confidential drafts too.
FAQ
Why is the Markdown toggle off by default?
Some people paste text that intentionally contains asterisks or # signs (code snippets, social posts). The invisible-character and punctuation cleanup is always safe, so it runs by default; Markdown stripping is one click when you need it.
Does it work for Claude and Gemini output too?
Yes. All major AI chat tools produce Markdown formatting and typographic punctuation; the cleaner does not care which model wrote the text.
Will it change what the text says?
No words are added, removed or reordered. Only formatting symbols and character variants are normalized. The one judgment call is the em dash — pick "keep it" in the dropdown if you want dashes untouched.
Is my text private?
Yes — cleaning happens locally in your browser. Your text never reaches a server, which is why the tool also works offline.