Smart Quotes Converter
Convert straight quotes, curly quotes, apostrophes, primes, ellipses, and simple dash punctuation locally with clear style options.
Paste text, choose a quote direction and style, then preview the converted punctuation before copying or downloading it. The converter is useful for CMS copy cleanup, plain-text exports, publishing drafts, and undoing mixed curly quote styles.
How it works
Straight to smart quotes converts plain ASCII quote marks into the selected typographic style. It uses surrounding letters, numbers, spaces, and punctuation to choose opening quotes, closing quotes, apostrophes, and measurement primes.
Smart quotes to straight ASCII is for code samples, plain-text systems, search cleanup, and exports that need simple quote characters. Normalize mixed smart quotes first simplifies mixed curly quote marks, then applies the selected style consistently.
The measurement option treats text such as 5' 10" as feet and inches and emits prime symbols instead of apostrophes or closing quotation marks. The dash and ellipsis options cover common manuscript punctuation only; review legal, mathematical, or language-specific copy before publishing.
Your text is processed locally in the browser. The tool does not upload, store, or fetch content. Quote direction is context-based, so ambiguous fragments, nested quotations, and language-specific apostrophes can still need human review.
