How do I reverse a text string, word order or each word?

Type or paste text into Input, then pick a Mode: Characters, Each Word, Words, Flip Lines, Line Order or Upside Down. The result appears under Reversed as you type, with a Copy button.

What is the difference between Words and Each Word?

Words reverses the order of the words but keeps each word as written. Each Word keeps the word order and reverses the letters inside every word.

Do emoji and accented letters get broken when reversed?

Usually not. Where the browser supports Intl.Segmenter, text is split into user-perceived characters, so emoji sequences and accented letters stay intact. Older browsers fall back to a simpler method.

How do I check if a phrase is a palindrome?

Use Characters mode. The tool shows a Palindrome badge when the text reads the same both ways, ignoring case, spaces and punctuation. Otherwise it shows Not a palindrome.

What does Upside Down mode do?

It replaces each character with a Unicode lookalike, such as e becoming an upside-down e, and reverses the order so the text reads correctly when rotated 180 degrees. Characters without a match stay as they are.

Yes. Every tool is free to use, with no account and no credit card. The work runs on your device rather than on our servers, which is what keeps it free to run.

Does it work on mobile?

Yes. It runs in current mobile browsers on iOS and Android, with nothing to install.

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Free String Reverser

Reverse text character by character, reverse word order, flip each line, or reverse line order. Includes palindrome detection.

Runs in your browserNo sign-up, no pop-upsNo login requiredFree forever

Works offline once loaded

Input

Not a palindrome

Reversed

!dlroW ,olleH

13 characters2 words1 lines

Common uses

Check If Text Is a PalindromeReverse text and compare to detect palindromes — words, phrases, or sentences that read the same forwards and backwards.
Reverse Text for Fun and Social MediaCreate backwards text, reversed messages, and mirrored captions for memes and social posts.
Reverse Strings for Coding PracticeVerify your string reversal algorithms and test edge cases with emoji, Unicode, and multi-byte characters.
Reverse Word Order in SentencesFlip the word order of sentences, titles, or lists — useful for writing exercises and language learning.
Reverse the Order of LinesFlip a list or multi-line text upside down — last line becomes first, useful for log files and data processing.

How It Works

This tool reverses text entirely in your browser using zero external dependencies — the core logic is plain JavaScript, with one notable detail: it uses the browser's built-in Intl.Segmenter API (where available) to split text into grapheme clusters before reversing, so multi-codepoint characters like emoji sequences (👨‍👩‍👧) and accented letters (é) survive intact instead of being torn apart.

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Mode selection
Six reversal modes are available: reverse every character, reverse letters inside each word (keeping word order), reverse word order, reverse characters per line, reverse line order, or flip the whole string upside-down. The chosen mode is applied instantly as you type — there is no submit step.
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Grapheme-aware splitting via Intl.Segmenter
Before reversing characters, the text is split using Intl.Segmenter with granularity set to 'grapheme'. This gives user-perceived characters rather than raw Unicode code points, so a flag emoji or a base-letter-plus-combining-mark pair stays together when the array is reversed. Browsers without Intl.Segmenter fall back to spread-operator iteration.
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Upside-down mode uses a lookup table
The 'upside-down' mode maps each character through a hardcoded 100-entry lookup table of Unicode lookalikes (for example, 'e' becomes 'ǝ', '?' becomes '¿'), then reverses the grapheme array so the result reads correctly when physically rotated 180 degrees.
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Output and palindrome detection
The reversed result updates live via React's useMemo hook. In character-reversal mode the tool also checks whether the original input is a palindrome, using a Unicode-aware letter/digit filter (\p{L}\p{N}) before comparing. Clicking Copy writes the output to the clipboard via the standard navigator.clipboard API.