Reverse Text Generator

How to reverse text

1. Type or paste your text into Your text, or press Example to try the sample sentence. Open file reads a plain-text file such as .txt or .csv.
2. Under Reverse, choose The whole text, Each line or Letters in each word. The result updates as you type or change the option.
3. Press Copy to put the result on your clipboard, or Download .txt to save it.
4. To keep working on the result, press Use as input (Undo puts your earlier text back), or open it in the reverse words or upside-down text tool from the links under the result.

The three Reverse options

With one line of text, The whole text and Each line give the same result. The difference shows up with several lines. Here is the same three-line note in each mode:

Dear Sam,
See you at 9:30.
Alex

(The slashes mark line breaks.) If you want the words or lines themselves in reverse order but still readable, this is the wrong tool: the reverse words tool gives Sam, Dear / 9:30. at you See / Alex, and sort lines with Reverse current order gives Alex / See you at 9:30. / Dear Sam,.

Emoji, flags and accented letters stay intact

Many reverse text tools flip the raw code units of the text. That breaks anything built from more than one code point: a thumbs-up with a skin tone splits into a plain thumbs-up and a loose color swatch, and a flag, which is two regional-indicator letters, has its letters swapped into a different or invalid flag.

This tool reverses by grapheme clusters, the user-perceived characters defined in Unicode’s text segmentation standard (UAX #29), using the browser’s built-in segmenter. A character and the marks attached to it move as one unit:

The same rule keeps Hindi and other scripts with combining vowel signs readable as syllables rather than scattering the marks. Very old browsers without the segmenter fall back to reversing code points, which keeps simple emoji whole but can split skin tones, flags and accent marks.

Spaces, punctuation and line breaks

• Punctuation moves with the text. In every mode a comma or period is just another character, so world! becomes !dlrow. In Letters in each word, a “word” is anything between spaces, so punctuation attached to a word is reversed with it: don't stop-me now. becomes t'nod em-pots .won.
• Spaces and tabs are kept exactly. Double spaces and tabs stay as they are; in The whole text they simply move to the mirrored position, so a b + tab + c becomes c + tab + b a.
• Empty lines are kept in all modes, and a trailing line break in The whole text ends up at the start of the result.
• Line endings. Each line writes the result with plain line feeds, so Windows line endings (CR LF) become LF. The other two modes keep CR LF pairs together.
• Numbers and dates are reversed digit by digit: 2026-10-21 becomes 12-01-6202.

Backwards text, palindromes and puzzles

Reversing is its own undo. Paste backwards text, reverse it again with the same option, and you get the original. That makes the tool a backwards text decoder as well as a generator.

It is also a quick palindrome check. A word that reads the same both ways, such as racecar, comes out unchanged. Phrases usually need spaces, punctuation and capitals ignored: Never odd or even becomes neve ro ddo reveN, which matches once you compare letters only. Some words turn into other words: stressed becomes desserts.

When people use reverse text

• Social posts and usernames. Backwards captions, bios and gamer tags are a common joke or hidden message. The result is plain text, so it pastes anywhere text is allowed.
• Puzzles, escape rooms and classroom activities. Writing clues backwards is a simple code that players can solve by hand or with a mirror. For a code that cannot be read by reversing, use the Caesar cipher.
• Testing software. Developers reverse strings to check that their own code handles emoji, combining accents and line endings, and the results above show what a correct grapheme-based reversal looks like.
• Design and print. Text that will be read through glass or in a mirror, such as a window decal printed on the inside, needs its order reversed. Order alone is not enough there: each letter must also be mirrored, which is a font or graphics job rather than a text one.
• Styling. Combine it with the fancy text generator to get reversed text in bold, script or other Unicode styles.

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