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Strip Markdown

Remove all Markdown formatting from text instantly online. Strips headers, bold, italic, links, code blocks, and more — leaving clean plain text. Free — runs entirely in your browser.

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Markdown is a lightweight markup language designed to be converted to HTML, but its syntax characters (#, *, _, `, >) are visible in contexts that expect plain text. When Markdown source is displayed as-is in an environment that does not render it — such as a mobile push notification, an SMS message, a database field, or a REST API that only accepts plain strings — the markup characters appear as noise rather than formatting.

Stripping Markdown syntax means removing all formatting markers while preserving the underlying text content. For inline elements, this means removing the surrounding characters while keeping the content: **bold** becomes bold, `code` becomes code, [link text](url) becomes link text (discarding the URL). For block elements like headers, the # prefix is removed; for code blocks, the fence markers are discarded but the code content is kept.

This tool removes Markdown syntax using regex patterns that match the CommonMark and GitHub Flavored Markdown (GFM) specification. It handles headers, bold, italic, strikethrough, inline code, fenced and indented code blocks, blockquotes, ordered and unordered list markers, horizontal rules, and image/link syntax. The result is clean prose text suitable for plain-text channels, content auditing, or word count measurement.

Common Use Cases

Preparing content for push notifications

Mobile push notifications (via Firebase Cloud Messaging, APNs, or OneSignal) display plain text — Markdown syntax appears literally if not stripped. When a CMS stores article summaries or notification copy in Markdown, the delivery system must convert to plain text before sending. Stripping Markdown produces clean notification text without asterisks, backticks, or bracket syntax.

Calculating accurate word counts on Markdown documents

Word processing metrics (word count, reading time, character count) should measure actual content words, not markup syntax. A Markdown file with 500 words of content may contain 600 characters of syntax overhead. Stripping Markdown first ensures word count tools, SEO character counters, and content length validators report the reader-facing text length rather than the source file length.

Importing Markdown content into plain-text databases

Legacy databases, CRMs (Salesforce, HubSpot), and ticketing systems (Jira, ServiceNow) often have plain-text description fields that cannot render Markdown. When migrating content from a Markdown-native system (GitHub, Notion, Obsidian), stripping Markdown syntax before import ensures the stored text is readable as plain prose rather than appearing with raw formatting characters.

What Gets Removed