Documentation

How It Works

PunctuationWizard is a set of small utilities that run entirely in your browser. There's no backend, no upload, and no account — the text you paste or drop is processed locally and saved only in your browser's local storage so it survives reloads. Once a tool page has loaded, it keeps working even with no network.

Using a Tool

1. Open a tool from the grid on the home page, or search with /.
2. Type, paste, or drag & drop a text file into the editor.
3. Click an action button — the text transforms in place.
4. Copy the result, save it to a file, or press Undo to step back through button-driven changes.

Some tools carry checkboxes above the editor (for example the Punctuation Remover's keep apostrophes inside words) — those settings persist per tool. Symbol Copy is different: it's a click-to-copy reference grid, with a filter box instead of an editor.

Keyboard Shortcuts

The Tools

• Punctuation Fixer — Fix spacing around punctuation, collapse doubled marks, normalize ellipses, add or strip terminal periods, capitalize after sentence ends, and manage Oxford commas.
• Unicode Cleaner — Convert fullwidth and CJK punctuation, exotic spaces, smart quotes, dashes, and ellipses to plain ASCII — and remove invisible characters like zero-width spaces.
• Smart Quotes — Convert straight quotes to typographic curly quotes and back, switch single and double quotes, convert to guillemets, fix apostrophes, and use primes for measurements.
• Dashes & Hyphens — Convert typewriter double hyphens to real dashes, use en dashes in number ranges, restyle em dashes spaced or unspaced, swap em dashes for commas, and normalize every dash back to a hyphen.
• Punctuation Remover — Remove all punctuation and symbols, keep sentence enders, strip specific marks like commas or quotes, drop parentheticals, or keep only the punctuation.
• Punctuation Analyzer — Count every punctuation mark, check that brackets and quotes are balanced, profile how sentences end, and list unusual Unicode punctuation hiding in your text.
• Symbol Copy — Browse dashes, quotes, legal marks, currency, math symbols, arrows, and invisible characters — click any of them to copy, with a filter to find marks by name.

Privacy

Your text never leaves your device. The only thing stored is your own working text and tool settings, in your browser's local storage, so a reload doesn't lose your work. Analytics is cookieless, self-hosted Plausible — page counts, not people. Read the full privacy policy.

Open Source

Every tool's behavior lives in a single MIT-licensed JavaScript module — each tool card links straight to its source file on GitHub. Bug reports, tool requests, and pull requests are welcome on the punctuationwizard-tools repository.