Free markdown tools
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27 small, fast, browser-based tools for working with markdown. No accounts, no uploads — your text stays on your machine unless you explicitly share it as a link.
Convert
Move documents between markdown and other formats.
HTML to markdown converter
Paste HTML or rich text from any web page and get clean GitHub-flavored markdown — tables, code blocks, and nested lists included.
Markdown to HTML converter
Turn markdown into clean semantic HTML as you type — copy the fragment, or download a complete styled document. GFM supported.
Markdown to PDF converter
Paste or open a .md file and download a PDF with real selectable text, highlighted code, and rendered tables. Fully client-side.
PDF to markdown converter
Drop a PDF, get editable markdown — headings, lists, and paragraphs inferred from the layout. Nothing is uploaded.
Markdown to Word converter
Markdown to a .doc that opens in Word — or paste from Word and get clean markdown back. Both directions, in-browser.
CSV to markdown table converter
Paste CSV, TSV, or a spreadsheet range and get an aligned markdown table — or paste a markdown table and get CSV back.
JSON to markdown table converter
Paste a JSON array or object and get a markdown table — nested keys flattened to dot paths, pipes escaped, columns reorderable — or turn a table back into JSON.
Markdown to Slack converter
Turn standard markdown into Slack mrkdwn — *bold*, _italic_, <url|text> links, headings as bold lines, tables as code grids — with a list of what was approximated.
Markdown to Discord converter
Turn standard markdown into Discord markdown — headings to ###, masked links, code blocks with languages, tables as code grids — with every approximation listed.
Markdown to Jira converter
Turn standard markdown into Jira wiki markup — h1. headings, *bold*, {code:lang} blocks, ||header|| tables, [text|url] links, ** nested lists — ready for issue fields.
Markdown to plain text converter
Strip every markdown marker and keep the words, lists, code and paragraph structure — links optionally kept as "text (url)". For email, SMS, and form fields.
Generate
Build correct markdown from a form instead of by hand.
Markdown table generator
Build tables in a visual grid — set column alignment, paste CSV/TSV from a spreadsheet, and copy clean padded markdown.
README generator
Fill in a form, get a professional README.md with live badges, install and usage sections, and a live preview.
Table of contents generator
Paste a document, get a linked TOC with GitHub-exact anchor slugs — choose depth, insert it under your title.
Link, image & code block generator
Fill in a form, get correct markdown for links (with tooltips and reference style), sized images, and fenced code.
Markdown badge generator
Design shields.io badges with a live preview — label, message, color, style, logo — and copy them as markdown, HTML, or reStructuredText.
Changelog generator
Build a CHANGELOG.md in Keep a Changelog format — or paste your git log and let conventional commits sort themselves into Added, Fixed, and Changed.
Front matter generator
Generate valid YAML, TOML, or JSON front matter for Jekyll, Hugo, Astro, Docusaurus, or Obsidian — dates, tags, slugs, and custom fields, escaped correctly.
Check & compare
Find problems in a document before you publish it.
Markdown linter
Find heading, list, spacing, and link problems in a document — every finding explained, most of them fixable with one click.
Markdown diff checker
Compare two versions of a document side by side or as a unified patch, with word-level highlights inside changed lines.
Markdown link checker
Extract every link from a document and check it — dead pages, redirects, and broken #anchors — with the line each one is on.
Markdown word counter
Word, character, sentence, and paragraph counts that ignore markdown syntax and code — plus reading time and heading, link, and image totals.
Edit & share
Write, preview, tidy, and publish.
GitHub README and docs viewer
Paste a repository URL and read its README and docs folder as a clean, linked site — relative links and images resolved, no cloning.
Markdown viewer
Open a .md file — drag it in, paste, or load from a URL — and read it rendered with tables, code highlighting, and mermaid diagrams. Print or share it.
Markdown formatter
Prettify messy markdown: uniform list markers, one emphasis style, aligned tables. Semantic — rendered output never changes.
Markdown sharing
The core product: paste markdown, get a link. Expiry from 1 day to forever, edit tokens, raw endpoints, and an MCP server for AI IDEs.
Reference
Look up the syntax.
Is anything uploaded when I use these tools?
No. Every converter, generator, and checker on this page runs in your browser; the only network requests are the ones you trigger yourself — clicking Share as link, or asking the link checker to test external URLs. Files you open never leave your machine.
Which markdown flavor do the tools use?
GitHub Flavored Markdown (GFM): tables, task lists, strikethrough, autolinks, and footnotes on top of CommonMark. It is what GitHub, GitLab, and most documentation systems render, so output from any tool here pastes straight into a README. Looking for syntax answers instead? The markdown guides cover checkboxes, strikethrough, line breaks, comments, and more; the cheat sheet has everything on one page.
Can I use these from an AI IDE or a script?
Sharing works over MCP — see the setup guide for Cursor, Claude Code, VS Code, Windsurf, and Zed— or automate it with the REST API. The tools themselves are browser pages; the source for all of them is on GitHub.