Pasted from ChatGPT and got **asterisks**, # signs and backticks everywhere? One click converts the Markdown residue back to clean plain text.
🔒 100% private — your text never leaves this browser tabChat interfaces render Markdown: **bold** becomes bold, # Heading becomes a title, `code` gets a monospace box. But when you copy that text into a plain-text field — an email client, a CMS, a form, a YouTube description — the raw Markdown symbols come along instead of the formatting. The result is the instantly recognizable "pasted from ChatGPT" look.
TextWash strips bold/italic markers, heading hashes, backticks and converts [link text](url) to just the text — while also washing out the invisible watermark characters, smart quotes and em dashes that ride along in the same paste. Emoji-decorated bullet lines and cliché phrases get flagged for a human rewrite.
The cleanup runs in your browser with plain JavaScript. Nothing is uploaded, stored or logged — you can even use the tool offline.
ChatGPT writes Markdown formatting. Inside the chat window it renders as bold or headings, but plain-text destinations show the raw ** and # characters instead. Stripping the Markdown symbols restores clean prose.
No. Only formatting symbols and hidden characters are removed — every word stays exactly as written. Stylistic AI clichés are flagged but never rewritten automatically.
No. Everything runs locally in your browser. The page even works offline once loaded.
Two reasons: the raw Markdown symbols (**, #, backticks) that the chat window rendered but your destination doesn't, and special characters like curly quotes, em dashes and narrow no-break spaces that ordinary keyboards never produce. TextWash fixes both in one click.