Paste to Markdown

Copy the formatted text, click anywhere on this page and press Ctrl+V (Cmd+V on Mac). The converter reads the rich text from your clipboard and turns it into Markdown immediately. You can also click Paste from clipboard, or paste directly into the input box.

Headings, bold, italic, strikethrough, links, images, numbered and bulleted lists, task lists, blockquotes, inline code, code blocks and tables (GitHub Flavored Markdown). Colors, fonts and font sizes have no Markdown equivalent and are dropped.

Yes. Google Docs in particular copies text with styling that trips up most converters: everything comes out bold and links are wrapped in a Google redirect. This tool handles those cases so you get clean headings, bold, italics, code, links and lists.

Yes. If you paste raw HTML source it is detected automatically and converted. There is also a dedicated HTML to Markdown converter with a plain code input.

Language models read Markdown well: headings, lists and code blocks give the model structure without the noise of HTML. Pasting Markdown instead of raw web text keeps prompts shorter and clearer, which usually means better answers.

Yes. Everything runs in your browser with JavaScript. Nothing you paste is uploaded, stored or logged. The Chrome extension works the same way.

Markdown is a lightweight way to write formatted text with plain characters: # for headings, ** for bold, - for lists. It is the standard format for README files, documentation, GitHub, Notion, Obsidian and AI chat tools.