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10 Free Browser-Based Text Tools Every Developer Should Bookmark

DEV Community·TextTooling·6 months ago
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As developers, we constantly deal with text transformation tasks —

encoding a string, cleaning up CSV data, converting between formats.

Most of us either Google a Stack Overflow answer, write a throwaway

script, or paste sensitive data into some sketchy online tool.

There's a better way.

I've been using TextTooling.com for these

tasks. Everything runs 100% in the browser — no data is sent to any

server. Here are the tools I reach for most often:

1. URL Encoder / Decoder

Stop manually escaping query string parameters. Paste your string,

get the encoded version instantly.

→ URL Encoder & Decoder

2. Base64 Encoder / Decoder

Useful when debugging JWTs, API payloads, or image data URIs.

→ Base64 Tool

3. HTML to Text Converter

Strip all HTML tags from a string — great for cleaning scraped content

or sanitizing user input before logging.

→ HTML to Text

4. Remove Duplicate Lines

Pasting a list of IDs or values and need to deduplicate?

This handles it in one click.

→ Remove Duplicate Lines

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