Reverse text, lines or words

Frequently asked questions

Will emoji and accented letters break?

No. Text is reversed by visible character (grapheme), so a flag, a family emoji or a letter with a combining accent stays in one piece.

What are the five modes?

Whole text backwards, lines in the opposite order, each line backwards, the words of each line in the opposite order (spacing stays where it was), and each word backwards while keeping the word order.

Does it work for right-to-left languages?

It reverses the stored order of characters, not how they are displayed, so Arabic or Hebrew text may look unchanged or odd after reversing. The order of lines and words works for any language.

What happens to Windows (CRLF) and Mac line endings?

Windows, Mac and Linux breaks are all read as ordinary line breaks. A file you open with “Open file” keeps its style in the result, so a CRLF file stays CRLF. Browsers turn the breaks of text you type or paste into plain LF, so that text gets LF results. If a file mixes styles, the commonest one is used and the tool says so.

Is my text uploaded anywhere?

No. Everything runs in your browser; your text is never sent to a server and is not saved on this device. Only your option choices are remembered. (If you switch to another operation, your text is held in this tab's session storage for up to a minute so it can carry over, then discarded.) It is free, with no sign-up and no watermark.