# Markdown to Plain Text

> Strip Markdown formatting down to clean, readable plain text.

Markdown to Plain Text parses your Markdown properly — headings, lists, block quotes, fenced code and pipe tables — and writes a real result. It runs in your browser, so nothing is uploaded.

**URL:** https://convertto.tech/t/markdown-to-text
**Category:** Text Tools (https://convertto.tech/c/text-tools)
**Privacy:** Runs entirely in the browser; no upload
**Cost:** Free, no sign-up
**Last updated:** 2026-08-01

## Key facts

- **Privacy:** Runs entirely in your browser — nothing is uploaded
- **Cost:** Free, unlimited, no sign-up

## How to use

1. Enter or paste your markdown.
2. Select your or upload a .md file — the file stays on your device and is never uploaded.
3. Press Run, then download the result when it is ready.

## FAQ

### Why not just delete the symbols?

Because a regular expression that strips #, * and _ also mangles a code block, an underscore inside a variable name and a URL. This parses the document first and prints the content, which is why tables arrive aligned and code survives intact.

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