Text Tools
Count, convert, compare, clean, and generate text.
About Text Tools
Text tools earn their place on the jobs that are tedious by hand and instant by machine: counting words against a limit, changing case across hundreds of lines, spotting the one character that differs between two files, stripping duplicates from a list. The counters here follow the same rules the places you are writing for use — words, characters with and without spaces, reading time — so the number you see is the number that will be judged. Nothing you paste leaves your device, which is the point when the text is a draft, a client's copy, or anything unpublished.
For editing work, the order that saves the most time is usually: remove duplicates first, then fix case, then compare. Doing it the other way round means comparing two files that differ in ways you were about to remove anyway. The diff tool is the one to reach for when you are certain two versions are identical and something says otherwise — it finds trailing spaces and invisible characters that the eye slides straight past.
The generators serve a different purpose. Lorem Ipsum fills a layout with text that has realistic length and rhythm without reading as real copy, which stops people reviewing the words when you wanted them reviewing the design. The fancy text and symbol tools produce real Unicode characters rather than images, so they paste anywhere — though the same property means a screen reader will read them out character by character, which is worth remembering before using them in a name or a heading.