HTML to Plain Text Converter
Paste your HTML email or page and get a clean, readable plain-text version — links preserved as URLs, lists turned into bullets — ready to drop in as the text part of a multipart email. Everything runs in your browser.
The text part is the half of your email no one designs
Every properly constructed marketing email is actually two emails travelling together: the HTML version everyone fusses over, and a plain-text version that most senders ignore entirely. That neglect costs more than it seems. Filters read a missing or auto-generated junk text part as a hallmark of lazy bulk mail, and certain clients — wearables, accessibility tools, text-only readers, some corporate gateways — show the text part and nothing else. Generating a clean, deliberate text alternative is a small step that quietly improves both how many inboxes you reach and how your message reads for the people who never see your carefully built HTML.
Good plain text keeps the meaning, drops the markup
Converting well is more than stripping tags. A naive strip turns your links into bare words, losing the destination entirely — useless in an email where the whole point may be a click. Decent conversion keeps each link's text and trails the URL in parentheses so it survives, turns list items into hyphen bullets so structure remains, swaps images for their alt text, and preserves paragraph breaks so the result is actually readable rather than one collapsed blob. That's what this tool does, all locally in your browser so even sensitive drafts stay on your machine. Paste the HTML, copy the text, and your multipart email is complete.
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Frequently asked questions
Why does an email need a plain-text version?
A well-formed email is sent as 'multipart', carrying both an HTML version and a plain-text version. Some clients and smartwatches display the text part, some readers prefer it, and — importantly — spam filters often treat an HTML email with a missing or empty text part as a low-quality signal. Including a real text alternative improves both accessibility and deliverability.
Will this run my HTML or send it anywhere?
No. The conversion happens entirely in your browser using inert parsing — scripts in the pasted HTML are never executed, and nothing is uploaded to a server. You can paste sensitive email content safely; it never leaves your device.
What happens to links and images?
Links are kept as readable text followed by the URL in parentheses, so the destination survives in plain text. Images are replaced by their alt text where available, and dropped otherwise, since a text email can't display them. Lists become hyphen bullets and headings get spacing so the structure stays legible.