Text reverser, backwards in every way.

A text reverser takes the text you give it and writes it back in the opposite direction. "Reverse" can mean several things, so this one shows the main versions together: the characters backwards, each word turned around, the order of the words reversed, the order of the lines reversed, upside-down text and a backwards-by-display line. Pick the result you need and press its Copy button.

How to use the text reverser

1. Type or paste into Your text. Press Try an example to fill the box with two sample lines, or Paste to take the text from your clipboard.
2. All six results update as you type. Find the one that fits and press its Copy button. The button says Copied for a moment.
3. Switch Keep emoji and accents whole off only if you want raw code-unit reversal. Leave it on for normal text.
4. Switch on Reverse line by line to reverse every line by itself and keep the lines in order.
5. Press Clear to start again.

What each result does, with one example

Take the two lines Hello, World! and This is my text..

Punctuation counts as part of a word. That is why the comma and the exclamation mark move with their words in the second and third rows, and why the comma lands in front of "olleH". If you want punctuation to stay put, take it out first or edit the result by hand.

Reverse the lines, not the letters

With both example lines in the box, Line order reversed puts This is my text. first and Hello, World! second. It is handy for a log with the newest entry last, a list you want bottom to top, or lyrics you want to read from the end. Each line keeps its own spelling.

Reversed text works on the whole box, so it also reverses the lines: the last line's characters come first. Reverse line by line is the switch for when you want each line backwards but still in its place.

Why emoji and accents need care

A browser stores text as 16-bit units. A family emoji is seven code points joined by invisible glue, and a letter with an accent can be a plain letter plus a combining mark. Reversing the raw units would put the marks in front of the wrong letters or cut an emoji into pieces. With Keep emoji and accents whole on, the tool uses the browser's own rule for what counts as one symbol, so a flag or a family stays one piece. The count under the box shows both numbers when they differ. Old browsers without that rule fall back to code points, and the count says nothing special there.

Upside-down text and the display trick

Upside down reverses the text and swaps each letter for a look-alike that reads as turned over by half a revolution: a becomes ɐ, e becomes ǝ, h becomes ɥ. Digits, brackets and some punctuation are swapped too. Letters with no good turned form stay as they are, and a few capitals use rare symbols that some fonts draw as empty boxes. Characters outside this plain table, such as other alphabets, are left unchanged.

Backwards by display wraps each line in the right-to-left override character (U+202E). Apps that follow the Unicode bidirectional rules draw the line from right to left, so it looks reversed, but the characters stay in their original order. If you paste it somewhere that ignores the character, nothing looks different. Use the first result when you need the characters themselves reversed.

Palindromes

A palindrome reads the same both ways. The line under the box tells you when your text is one after ignoring case, spaces, punctuation and accents. "A man, a plan, a canal: Panama" is. "Hello" is not, because "olleH" is a different word.

Tools nearby: fancy text generator for styled letters, case converter for upper and lower case, and word counter to count what you reversed.