Reverse Text

How to reverse text

1. Type or paste your text in the input box.
2. Under Reverse, choose what to reverse: Characters (text backwards), Word order or Line order.
3. For characters and words, tick Keep line order, reverse inside each line to work line by line. For lines, tick Also reverse the characters of each line to mirror the whole text.
4. The result appears as you type. Reverse text refreshes it, and Copy puts it on your clipboard.

The three modes

Take the two-line text “Hello world” / “Good morning” as an example:

Characters (text backwards) reads the text from the last character to the first. Without the option, the last line comes first as well, exactly as if you read the whole text backwards.

Word order keeps each word readable and swaps their positions. Punctuation stays attached to its word, so “Hello, world!” becomes “world! Hello,”. The spaces between words are kept, including double spaces.

Line order turns a list upside down: the last line becomes the first. This is handy for logs, chat exports or lists sorted in the wrong direction. Blank lines are kept in their mirrored position.

Emoji and accents stay intact

Reversing text is trickier than it looks. Many characters that you see as one symbol are stored as several code points: an “é” may be an “e” followed by a combining accent, a thumbs-up with a skin tone is two code points, a family emoji is up to seven joined by invisible joiners, and a flag is a pair of regional letters. A naive reversal splits them, turning a flag into two letters and moving the accent onto the wrong letter.

This tool reverses user-perceived characters, called grapheme clusters, using the text segmentation built into your browser. “👍🏽🇨🇦é” becomes “é🇨🇦👍🏽”, with every symbol still whole.

Right-to-left scripts such as Arabic and Hebrew are stored in reading order and displayed right to left, so a reversed Arabic word may look “unreversed” in some places. The characters are reversed correctly; only the display direction differs.

Ideas for using reversed text

• Puzzles, riddles, escape-room clues and treasure hunts.
• Checking whether a word or sentence is a palindrome: “kayak” reads the same backwards.
• Reversing the order of a list or log without sorting it.
• Mirror-writing games and fun social media posts.

Reversed text is not a way to hide information: anyone can reverse it back in a second.