Writing and Text Tools
6 tools, free and without ads.
Tools for text you are producing rather than data you are processing. Some help while you write, some check what you wrote, and one exists to fill a space until real words arrive.
The privacy point is sharper here than almost anywhere else on the site. An unpublished draft, a private journal entry and a list of what you owe people are all things that should not be sitting in someone else's logs — and here they are not, because nothing is transmitted.
Every tool in Writing
A private daily journal kept in your browser. One entry per day, full-text search, Markdown export, and optional sync to your own Google Drive.
A private, offline-first task manager. Create tasks with due dates and priorities, organise into lists, and track subtasks.
Generate placeholder text by paragraphs, sentences, or words. Classic Latin, English-like, or Hipster Ipsum.
Count words, characters, sentences, paragraphs, and estimated reading time.
Compare two blocks of text and highlight every insertion, deletion and change — by line, word or character.
Write Markdown and see it rendered live, with tables, task lists and fenced code. Copy the HTML or export a standalone file.
Drafting, checking, and filling space
Journal — for writing you keep. Entries live in your browser, so the honesty of a private journal is backed by something structural rather than a promise in a policy.
To-Do List — the same idea applied to a shorter form, with optional sync when you want the same list on two devices.
Word & Character Counter — for the constraint you have been handed — a word limit, a character cap, a reading time. It counts as you type rather than making you paste and wait.
Text Diff — compares two versions and shows what moved. Useful for edits you did not make yourself, and for the moment you realise you have two files and no idea which is newer.
Lorem Ipsum Generator — produces placeholder text for a layout. Its whole job is to be visibly meaningless, so nobody mistakes it for content and ships it.
Related categories
- Developer Tools — Case conversion and JSON formatting, for text with a syntax to respect.
- Encoders and Decoders — Escaping text for a URL or for HTML, which is a writing problem in disguise.
- Design and Colour Tools — Colour and image tools, for the layout the placeholder text is standing in for.