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Zalgo text, adjustable

The corrupted look, built by stacking combining marks above, through and below each character. Intensity and direction are yours to set.

These are different Unicode characters, not formatting. They paste anywhere, which is the appeal — but screen readers announce them as mathematical symbols or skip them entirely, and search engines do not match them against the ordinary word. Good for a display name, wrong for body text.

Intensity is capped, because past a certain density the marks stop rendering and start hanging the text engine on some platforms. The effect is built from combining marks, so it can be stripped back with the text cleaner.

Zalgo

Type above and the corrupted text appears here.

  • Runs in your browser
  • No account required
  • Free to use

How it works

01

Combining marks, stacked

Every mark is a real Unicode combining character — the kind used for accents. Stacking dozens on one letter makes it spill upward and downward over neighbouring lines, which is the whole effect.

02

Intensity is capped on purpose

Past a certain density the text stops rendering and starts hanging the layout engine, and on some platforms a sufficiently long zalgo string will freeze the app displaying it. The cap keeps the output usable.

03

It can be stripped back

Because the marks are separate characters, normalising the text and removing them recovers the original exactly — shown on the page so you can see it is reversible.

What it does

Intensity and direction

Above, through and below, each independently.

Reversible

The stripped-back original is shown alongside.

Runs in your browser

No account and no upload — what you type is never sent anywhere. Analytics records that the tool was opened, never what you put into it.

Practical advice

Getting a better result

  • Many platforms filter or truncate heavy zalgo, and some render it as a solid block. Lower intensity travels better.
  • It is genuinely disruptive for screen reader users, who hear every mark announced. Worth avoiding anywhere people have not opted in.
  • The text cleaner removes combining marks, so zalgo pasted into it comes back clean.

Questions

Things people ask

Why is my zalgo less intense than I set it?

The intensity is capped. Past that point the marks stop rendering and start causing performance problems in whatever is displaying them, so the cap is a practical limit rather than a stylistic one.

Can zalgo text be undone?

Yes. The marks are separate characters, so normalising and stripping them recovers the original text exactly.

Who builds these

Free tools by day. Websites that earn their keep by trade.

KuConvert is built by KUDUY, a web design and development agency. From custom WordPress builds to SEO and e-commerce, everything they do is engineered to bring you more qualified traffic and turn it into revenue.

  • Fixed scope, no surprise invoices

    Most sites ship in four to eight weeks with the scope and the price agreed up front.

  • SEO from day one

    Search is designed into the build — structure, schema and Core Web Vitals — not retrofitted.

  • A team, not a ticket queue

    A project manager, a designer and a developer you can actually reach.

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This tool runs entirely in your browser. Your files are never uploaded.