Text Tools
Word counts, case conversion, list cleanup and text transformation — paste it in, get it back fixed.
About these text tools
Text work is mostly janitorial: a list with duplicates, a paragraph copied out of a PDF with every line broken, a title that needs to become a URL slug, two drafts that need comparing word by word. None of it is hard, and all of it is tedious by hand — a find-and-replace across five hundred lines, a word count that includes the footnotes or doesn't, a frequency table tallied by eye. The fifteen tools in this category exist to make each of those jobs a paste and a click: counters that state exactly what they count, converters that show every case style at once so you can pick rather than retype, and cleaners — duplicate lines, line breaks, HTML tags — that do the repetitive pass in one go and report what they changed.
The conventions are printed on the pages because text tools disagree with each other more than any other kind. A word here is a run of letters and digits, with apostrophes and hyphens allowed inside it, so "don't" and "well-known" each count once; a sentence ends at a full stop, question mark or exclamation mark; reading time assumes 200 words a minute and speaking time 130, the averages the publishing industry plans with. Deduplication keeps the first occurrence and collapses repeated blank lines to one. The slug generator transliterates accented characters rather than deleting them, because "café" should become "cafe", not "caf". Where a tool has modes — reverse by character, word or line; join lines with spaces or keep the paragraphs — the mode says precisely what it does, and the worked examples show it happening.
One rule matters more here than anywhere else on Kwikfig: your text never leaves the browser. Text pasted into online tools has a way of containing the things people least want uploaded — drafts, contracts, interview notes, lists of names and email addresses. Every tool in this category processes its input on your own device; nothing is sent to a server, stored, logged or used to train anything. Close the tab and the text is gone, which is exactly the guarantee a paste-box tool owes you.
Frequently asked questions
Is the text I paste into these tools uploaded anywhere?
No. Every text tool on Kwikfig runs entirely in your browser — the counting, converting and cleaning happen on your device. Your text is never sent to a server, stored or tracked, and there is no account or history.
Why does the Word Counter's count differ from my word processor's?
Usually a definitional difference: how hyphenated words, numbers and contractions are counted, and whether headers, footnotes or text boxes are included. This counter counts a word as a run of letters and digits with internal apostrophes or hyphens, so "well-known" and "don't" are one word each, and it counts exactly the text you pasted — nothing more, nothing hidden.
Can I process a whole list at once, not just one item?
Yes — list work is what several of these tools are for. Remove Duplicate Lines, the Text Sorter and Add Line Numbers all operate on a pasted list line by line; the Word Frequency Counter tallies a whole document and exports the table as CSV.