Markdown to Text Converter
Get clean, readable plain text — laid out for a fixed-width reader, not just stripped of its syntax.
Convert Markdown to Plain text (TXT)
Markdown source
Readable plain text, not stripped syntax
Most Markdown-to-text tools delete the punctuation and hand back what is left. That is not the same as plain text. A table becomes a wall of pipe characters, a nested list loses the indentation that made it a list, and long paragraphs run to whatever width the original file happened to use.
Morph Doc lays the document out for a fixed-width reader instead. Headings get underlines in the long-standing plain-text convention. Tables are rendered as aligned columns with a rule under the header, so they can still be read as a table. Nested lists keep their structure through indentation. Code blocks are indented four spaces, which survives being pasted anywhere.
Prose is wrapped at 80 columns — the width that email clients, terminals, commit messages, and plain-text tickets have assumed for decades. The result reads correctly in a monospaced font without any further cleanup.
Emphasis markers are deliberately kept. Plain text has no bold, and asterisks around a word are how writers have shown emphasis in text since long before Markdown existed. Deleting them loses meaning; keeping them costs nothing.
How to convert Markdown to text
Load your Markdown
Paste the text into the editor, or drop a .md or .txt file onto the upload area.
Select Text
Choose the Text tab. Your document is laid out for an 80-column reader.
Download the .txt
Click Download Text. The file opens in any editor, terminal, or email client.
Questions
How is this different from just deleting the Markdown symbols?
Deleting symbols destroys structure. A table turns into a row of pipe characters and a nested list flattens. This lays the document out instead: tables become aligned columns, lists keep their indentation, and prose wraps at 80 columns.
Can I convert a .md file to .txt?
Yes. Drop the .md file onto the upload area, choose Text, and download the .txt. You can also paste the Markdown straight into the editor if you don't have it as a file.
Why are asterisks still in the output?
Plain text has no bold or italic, so emphasis is kept as markers — the way writers have shown emphasis in text for decades. Removing them would quietly lose meaning the author intended.
What width is the text wrapped to?
80 columns, the width assumed by terminals, email clients, and commit messages. Words longer than the column are left whole rather than broken.
What happens to images?
An image becomes a labelled placeholder using its alt text, so you can see where it belonged. Plain text cannot carry image data.
Is my file uploaded to convert it?
No. The text is produced in your browser and saved directly to your device.