free · in-browser · no upload
Drop your HTML file. We'll convert it to TXT right here in your browser, your file never leaves your device.
Select your file here to get started
or drop your file here.
Accepts .html, .htm, .xhtml
How it works
Click the dropzone above or drag a HTML from your desktop. Files of any size, there's no upload, so there's no upload limit.
The conversion runs entirely in this tab using JavaScript and WebAssembly. Your file never touches our servers, we don't have any.
Get your TXT the moment the conversion finishes. Convert another, or close the tab.
Your file is never uploaded. The entire conversion runs in your browser using WebAssembly. We can't see what you convert because we have no server to see it.
Server converters cap free users at 1-2 GB and gate larger files behind a paid plan. Since nothing uploads, our limit is whatever your browser can handle.
No account required. No watermark on the output. No queue. Drop a file, get a converted file.
Why convert HTML → Text
Pull the readable text out of a web page or HTML email and leave every tag, script, and style behind. Useful for word counts, feeding an LLM, archiving content as plain text, or grepping prose without markup in the way.
You saved a long article as HTML and want just the prose for notes. Convert to TXT here. Scripts, styles, and navigation chrome are dropped; paragraphs and headings stay on their own lines as clean text.
Layout (columns, tables) collapsed into one stream of text.
Plain text has no layout, so multi-column and table structure linearizes into reading order. That's expected. If you need the tabular data preserved, convert the HTML table to CSV instead; TXT is for prose.
Formats involved
HTML is the markup language of the web, every browser displays HTML documents natively. Files contain text plus tags (<h1>, <p>, <a>, etc.) describing structure and links. Modern HTML5 also supports embedded media (audio/video) and complex semantic markup.
How to open
Every web browser. Any text editor for source. Modern editors (VS Code) syntax-highlight HTML.
Plain text, the simplest data format. No formatting, no metadata, just characters. Universal compatibility across every device and program ever made. UTF-8 encoding has been the de facto default for over a decade.
How to open
Every text editor on every platform. Browser previews. Universal.
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FAQ
Yes. No signup, no watermark, no daily file count limit. Every conversion runs in your browser, your file never touches our servers because there are no servers.
Nowhere. The conversion runs entirely in your browser using JavaScript and WebAssembly. Your file is never uploaded to our servers. We don't have any servers handling files, there's nothing for us to log, store, or accidentally leak.
Whatever your browser can hold in memory. Practically, this means a few hundred MB on most computers, significantly larger than the 1-2 GB caps that server-upload converters charge for. Very large files (multi-GB) may require closing other browser tabs first.
Web pages; structured document interchange; readable archives. Universal text interchange. The most common reason to convert is compatibility, TXT works in places where HTML doesn't, or vice versa.
Every web browser. Any text editor for source. Modern editors (VS Code) syntax-highlight HTML.
Once the page is loaded, the conversion itself runs entirely offline. The first time you use a tool, your browser downloads the conversion library (a one-time cache). If you reload while offline, the page won't load, but you can install the site as a Progressive Web App for full offline use.
Single file at a time for now. Batch conversion is on the roadmap, for now, drop one file, download the result, then convert the next.
