Free Handy Tools

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Seven tools that take whatever you paste in and give you something back — a count, a diff, a different case, a URL slug. None of them keeps the text, because none of them ever sends it anywhere.

7 tools in Text

The one assumption they all share

Every tool here runs on the text in your browser tab and nowhere else. There is no upload step, no draft saved on a server, and nothing to sign in to — which matters more for this category than for any other on the site, because the thing you are pasting is usually the thing you did not want to hand over. An unpublished chapter, a contract, a cover letter, an internal memo: those are the texts people most often need counted or compared, and they are exactly the texts you should not paste into a form that posts them somewhere.

The practical consequence is that these tools are bounded by your own machine rather than by a plan tier. A very large paste will slow the tab down before it hits any limit imposed here, because no limit is imposed here.

Which one you actually want

They divide cleanly into measuring, reshaping and comparing, and the ambiguous case is only ever between the two case converters — one is for prose, the other is for identifiers, and they are separate tools because the rules genuinely differ.

Character & Word Counter
A limit to hit or stay under: characters, words, sentences, paragraphs.
Reading Time Estimator
How long the piece takes to read, rather than how long it is.
Text Case Converter
Prose that needs to become title case, sentence case or upper.
Slug & URL Generator
A heading that has to become a safe, lowercase, hyphenated URL.
Find and Replace Tool
A substitution across the whole block, plain or by pattern.
Text Diff Checker
Two versions of the same text, and you need the changes between them.
Lorem Ipsum Generator
Placeholder text at a length you specify, to fill a layout.

Two things people ask before pasting anything in

Does anything I paste leave my browser?

No. These tools are JavaScript running in your own tab, and none of them makes a network request with your text in it. You can confirm that yourself: open your browser’s network panel, paste something in, and watch nothing happen.

Why do the word counts here disagree with my word processor?

Because "word" is not a standardised unit. Different programs count hyphenated compounds, numbers, em-dash runs and footnote markers differently, so two honest counters can differ by a percent or two on the same paragraph. The counter here states what it counts, which is the only useful answer when a submission has a hard limit on it.