Email Formatting Cleaner — free online tool
You forward an email or copy a few lines from one, and the text comes out a mess — curly quotes, stray emojis, weird double spaces that won't go away. Cleaning it by hand is fiddly. We added a free tool that does it for you — Email Formatting Cleaner — right in your browser.
What it does
Paste messy or forwarded email text and it hands you clean, paste-ready plain text. It straightens smart quotes into normal ones, takes out stray emojis, and collapses double spaces down to single ones. The result is plain text you can drop into any document, form or reply without the odd characters tagging along.
Nothing leaves your device
The whole thing runs in your browser, on your own device. Nothing you paste is uploaded anywhere and nothing is saved — so even a private email stays with you.
How to use it
- Open Email Formatting Cleaner.
- Paste the messy or forwarded email text into the box.
- Copy the clean plain text and paste it wherever you need it.
It's free with no limit. There are more small tools on the Apps page.