Online Notepad — Free Online Tool

The Online Notepad is a plain, distraction-free text area that saves what you type to your browser's local storage, so a note survives a closed tab or an accidental refresh without any account, login, or sync service.

Its value is what it deliberately lacks. There is no formatting toolbar, no collaboration sidebar, no comment threads, no autosave-to-cloud spinner, and no sign-in wall. That makes it suited to the category of writing that does not deserve a document — a phone number someone is reading out, a paragraph being drafted before it goes into an email, text being cleaned of formatting on its way between two applications, or a scratch list during a call.

The storage model is worth being precise about, because it has real consequences. Notes live in local storage in the browser you typed them in. They are not synced to a server, not available on your phone, and not recoverable if you clear site data, use a private window, or switch browsers. That is a genuine privacy advantage — nothing you write is transmitted or readable by anyone else — and a genuine risk if you treat it as permanent storage. Anything you would be upset to lose belongs somewhere with real backups.

The other common use is stripping formatting: pasting rich text from a web page or Word document into a plain text area and copying it back out removes the hidden styling that otherwise follows it into your CMS or email.

Our Online Notepad is completely free to use with no signup required. For this tool, processing runs in your browser — your files and data stay on your device and are not uploaded to our servers.

Whether you are a developer, designer, student, or business owner, this tool is designed to save you time and make your workflow more efficient. Bookmark this page to access it whenever you need it — it will always be free.