Find and Replace in Text
Replace every occurrence of a word or phrase in pasted text — with match counts, whole-word mode and optional patterns.
Fast, easy and free — your answer appears as you type, and whatever you enter stays on your device.
Replace every occurrence of a word or phrase in one pass, with the number of replacements as the headline — so you know it did something, and how much. Whole-word mode stops 'cat' from mauling 'category'.
How to use it
- Paste the textThe document, list or snippet you want to change.
- Type find and replaceBoth fields are literal — dots, dollars and brackets mean themselves, no surprises.
- Check the count, copyThe replacement count confirms the scope before you take the result.
Bulk edits without opening an editor
Find-and-replace lives inside every serious editor, and yet the need constantly arrives away from one: a phone, someone else's machine, a text sitting in a web form. Renaming a product across a description, fixing a repeated typo, swapping placeholder names in a template, stripping a tracking suffix from a pasted list of links — thirty-second jobs that only need a box to do them in.
This page is that box, with the two safeties that matter: a live count of what changed, and whole-word matching so a short search term cannot chew through longer words that contain it.
Literal on purpose
Power-user replace tools interpret dots, dollars, brackets and backslashes as pattern syntax. That is exactly right in a code editor and exactly wrong in a paste-in tool, where the find text is usually a URL, a price or a filename full of those characters. Here, everything is literal: what you type is what is found, character for character, and the replacement is inserted untouched. The predictability is the feature.
Nothing you paste leaves your device — sensitive documents included.
Questions people ask
Why does the count matter?
Because silent replacement is how mistakes ship. Expecting 3 changes and seeing 47 means your search term is broader than you thought — the count turns that from a discovery in production into a glance.
What does whole-words-only do?
It requires the match to stand alone: replacing cat with dog no longer turns category into dogegory. This is the single most common find-and-replace accident, which is why the option sits right under the fields.
Is matching case-sensitive?
Not by default — Email, email and EMAIL all match. Tick Match case when capitalisation is the point, like renaming a code identifier.
Can I use regular expressions?
No, deliberately. Special characters are treated as literal text, so pasting a URL or a price into the find box just works. Regex power comes with regex accidents; for pattern work, a code editor is the right tool.
Can I replace with nothing?
Yes — leave the replace field empty and matches are deleted. Removing a repeated boilerplate phrase from a document is the classic use.
Does my text go anywhere?
No. The whole operation runs on your device — paste, replace, copy, close.