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Free case converter, seven cases

Case converter for every kind of capital

TextLab's case converter moves any block of text between seven cases — Sentence case, lowercase, UPPERCASE, Capitalize Each Word, Title Case, aLtErNaTiNg and iNVERSE — with one button each and no length limit. It is free and needs no signup. Every button converts the text you pasted rather than the last result it produced, so you can try all seven and change your mind without the mistakes piling up on each other.

  • 100% free
  • No signup
  • Seven cases
  • Converts from your original
  • No length limit
Sentence case0 words · 0 characters · rebuilt from what you pasted, not from the last conversion
Pick a case

All seven, side by side

An example line until you paste something of your own. Click a row to switch to it.

How to change the case of your text

Three steps, and the seventh case is no slower than the first.

  1. Drop the text into the top box

    Anything goes in: a heading typed with caps lock stuck down, a paragraph a colleague set in capitals, a spreadsheet column, a whole chapter. Press ⌘V while looking at this page — Ctrl+V away from a Mac — and the clipboard arrives in the box with no click needed first.

  2. Press one of the seven case buttons

    Sentence case, lowercase, UPPERCASE, Capitalize Each Word, Title Case, aLtErNaTiNg and iNVERSE sit in a row under the box, and the result appears the instant you choose. The panel at the bottom shows your first line rendered in all seven at once, which is quicker than trying them one after another when you are not sure what you want.

  3. Take the result, or send it back round

    Copy the result puts the converted text on your clipboard as plain text, so it arrives in Word or Google Docs without dragging any formatting behind it. Put the result back in the box makes the conversion the new starting point — useful when you want lowercase first and then a capital on each word, and the only way to make the second pass see the first one.

Technical specifications

Cases offeredSeven: Sentence case, lowercase, UPPERCASE, Capitalize Each Word, Title Case, aLtErNaTiNg and iNVERSE
What is left untouchedLine breaks, blank lines, tabs, double spaces, punctuation, digits, symbols and emoji — only letters change
Title Case rule used hereChicago: articles, conjunctions and linking words stay down at any length, the first and last word always rise. AP, MLA and APA rules live on the title case page
Sentence case detectionA capital after every full stop, question mark and exclamation mark, and at the start of each line; 62 abbreviations and single-letter initials are exempted, and a decimal point is never a sentence end
Alphabets that convertLatin with every accent, Greek, Cyrillic, Armenian, Coptic and Deseret. Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Hebrew, Thai, Hindi and Georgian have no capitals and pass through as they are
ReversibilityOnly lowercase and UPPERCASE throw information away. Because every button converts the text in the top box rather than the last result, flipping between cases stays lossless until you press Put the result back in the box
Speed and length limitNo cap. A 5,000-character article recases in half a millisecond, a 100,000-character chapter in about 10 ms, and a million characters in a tenth of a second
Price and privacyFree, no account, and the text is recased in this tab rather than on a server

Frequently asked questions

How do I fix a paragraph I typed with caps lock on?

Choose Sentence case, which restores the capital on the first word of every sentence and drops the rest. It is the right button in almost every caps-lock accident, because it restores the shape ordinary prose has rather than simply flattening the line. Pick lowercase instead when the text is a single fragment with no sentence in it — a tag, a search term, a file name — and Capitalize Each Word when the shouted line was a list of names.

Can I get my capitals back after converting to lowercase?

Not from the converted text — that information is gone the moment the capitals fall, and no tool can tell whether an original said polish or Polish. This page works around it by never converting a conversion: every button reads the text sitting in the top box, so you can move from UPPERCASE to Sentence case to Title Case and back without the errors compounding. The safety net disappears the moment you press Put the result back in the box, which is exactly what that button is for.

Does the converter touch my line breaks, spacing or punctuation?

No — only letters move, and everything between them stays exactly where you put it. Line breaks, blank lines, tabs, double spaces, hyphens, quotation marks and emoji all survive untouched, so a numbered list stays a numbered list and an indented block keeps its indent. Digits are unaffected too, which is why an invoice line with a product code in it comes back with the code intact.

What is alternating case actually for?

It is the internet's tone of voice for mockery, borrowed from a 2017 SpongeBob reaction image in which a caption written in wobbling capitals reads as sarcastic repetition. Nobody uses it in serious writing, and it is included here because people arrive looking for it by name. Inverse case is its quieter cousin: every capital drops and every small letter rises, which is occasionally useful for spotting a heading whose capitals were applied in the wrong places.

Which case should the headings on a website use?

Sentence case, unless a style guide you have to follow says otherwise. British newspapers moved to it decades ago and the design world has largely followed, because a heading in sentence case reads faster and stays legible when it wraps onto a second line; American newspapers and magazines, working from AP or Chicago, still set headlines in title case. The one place to avoid capitals altogether is a button or a navigation label, where an all-caps word is both slower to read and harder for people using a screen reader.

Does this work on accented letters and non-English alphabets?

Yes for any alphabet that has two cases, so é becomes É, ñ becomes Ñ, and Greek, Cyrillic, Armenian and Coptic all convert correctly. Scripts with no capital letters at all — Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Hebrew, Thai, Hindi and Georgian among them — pass through unchanged, which is normal rather than a failure. A German ß is the one letter that behaves oddly, because its capital is two letters rather than one.

How much text can I convert in one go?

None — there is no character cap, no daily quota and no signup. A 100,000-character chapter is recased in roughly 10 milliseconds, and a million characters in around 0.1 seconds, because every case here is a single pass over the text. The browser tab is the only real limit, and it will run out of patience with the textarea long before the conversion does.

Seven cases, and which one your document actually wants

Three of these seven do real work. Sentence case is how English prose is written and how almost every British publication now sets its headlines. Title case is the American editorial tradition, and it is not one convention but four competing ones that disagree about words like with, over and than. Capitals are the third, and they are the one to be careful with: study after study since Miles Tinker's legibility work in the 1960s has found continuous text in capitals slower to read than the same text in normal case, somewhere between a tenth and a fifth slower depending on the measurement, because a word in capitals is a plain rectangle and loses the ascenders and descenders your eye uses to recognise its shape. Screen readers add a second reason: some of them treat a short all-caps word as an abbreviation and spell it out letter by letter, so a navigation label reading SHOP is announced as S-H-O-P.

Case is also the one text operation that destroys information. Reversing a text or removing its line breaks can be undone; lowering a capital cannot, because nothing in the result records that Polish was ever different from polish. That is why this page never converts a conversion. Each button reads the box at the top, so moving from UPPERCASE to Sentence case and on to Title Case is three independent readings of your original rather than three stacked losses — and it is why the tools that get this wrong turn NASA sent the PDF into Nasa sent the pdf and cannot get it back. When you do want one pass to feed the next, the button that puts the result back in the box makes that explicit.

This page is the switchboard; each case has a page of its own where the settings live. The uppercase to lowercase tool adds a keep-list so acronyms survive the fall, and shades every word that will change before you commit. Title case implements AP, Chicago, MLA and APA side by side and shows which word each guide holds down and why. Sentence case exposes its sentence detection, so you can see where it decided a full stop was really an abbreviation. Text to uppercase handles the letters that misbehave when they rise, and capitalize each word knows the difference between O'Brien and don't. If what you actually need is a web address rather than a heading, the slug generator lowercases and hyphenates in one step.

The copy of your text this page keeps

One copy, in the memory of this browser tab, held only so that the seven buttons can each read your original instead of one another's output. It is never uploaded, never written to disk and never sent to any server: the seven conversions run on code that was downloaded once, along with the page itself. Press Start again, or simply reload, and both the copy and the result are gone with nothing left behind for your next visit.