Free Text Simplifier

Paste jargon, legalese or a tangled sentence and get it back in plain words a reader understands the first time, with the meaning intact.

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Start typing, paste your text, or upload a Word, PDF or text file. Select any word to freeze it.

Your paraphrase will appear herePick a mode, add your text, then press Paraphrase. Click any word in the result for synonyms.

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Text simplifier

What Simple mode does

The passage is correct but nobody outside the department can read it: corporate language, a policy paragraph, an academic abstract for a general audience, a sentence you have rewritten four times and still cannot follow. Simple mode is also the one that reliably rescues a single stuck line. Simple swaps abstract nouns for verbs, replaces jargon with the everyday word, splits long sentences and drops the padding, while keeping every claim the original made. It aims for plain English, not baby English.

How to use the text simplifier

Three steps, and the third is where the checking happens.

Paste the passage

Type it, paste it, or upload a PDF, DOCX, TXT or Markdown file. A sentence or a few paragraphs; the example below is one short passage.

Check the settings

Simple is already selected on this page. Leave the synonyms slider at Balanced for a first run, keep Protect names & numbers on, and freeze any term that must not change.

Read what changed

Every changed word is highlighted against your original. Click one for alternatives, edit the result in place, run it again for another version, or copy and download it.

Before and after in Simple mode

A real run of the tool, unedited, so you can judge the mode on what it actually returned.

Your text27 words

The implementation of the revised onboarding framework necessitates cross-functional alignment to mitigate downstream friction and facilitate the acceleration of time-to-productivity for incoming personnel across all operational verticals.

Simple mode25 words

Implementing the new onboarding framework requires teamwork across departments to reduce later problems and speed up how quickly new hires become productive in all areas.

Twenty-seven words became twenty-five, four nominalisations became verbs, and every claim in the original is still there. Generated by the paraphraser on 18 September 2026 in Simple mode at Balanced strength with Protect names & numbers on, printed here unedited.

What Simple mode changes

The three kinds of edit it makes, with the words from the example above.

Nominalisations back into verbs"The implementation of" becomes "implementing"; "facilitate the acceleration of" becomes "speed up". Most unreadable sentences are one nominalisation away from fine.
Jargon into everyday words"Cross-functional alignment" becomes "teamwork across departments"; "incoming personnel" becomes "new hires"; "operational verticals" becomes "areas".
LengthOne 30-word sentence usually becomes one or two shorter ones. Words that carried no meaning ("downstream", "necessitates") go.

What it leaves alone

A paraphrase is judged by what it does not touch.

Every claimSimple is a translation, not a summary. If the original made four points, the plain version makes four points. To drop points, use Shorten or the Summarizer.
Terms with no plain equivalent"Photosynthesis", "net operating loss" and a product name stay, because replacing them would be wrong rather than simple. Freeze any term you want held.
Names, numbers, dates and linksProtect names & numbers is on by default.

How far to move it

The synonyms slider sets the degree of change: Light, Balanced or Extensive.

Strength for SimpleBalanced is the usual setting: it replaces the jargon and splits the long sentences. Light only swaps the worst words and can leave the structure as tangled as before. Extensive (Pro) also reorders the ideas into the order a reader would want them, which suits dense policy or legal prose.
Protect names & numbersOn by default. Figures, dates, citations and organisations stay exactly as written. Switch it off only when a number itself is what you want reworded.
FreezeClick any word in the result and freeze it. A frozen term survives every later run of any mode.

Common mistakes with Simple mode

Five ways a simplify rewrite goes wrong, and how the diff catches each one.

Simplifying a definition or a dose

Anything where being approximately right is the same as being wrong should be quoted, not simplified. Legal clauses, medical instructions and contractual terms mean what they say because of the words chosen.

Mistaking Simple for Shorten

Simple makes text easier; Shorten makes it briefer. Simple text is often shorter as a side effect, but if length is the problem, Shorten is the mode.

Losing a qualifier

"Most", "may", "in some cases" are easy to drop when a sentence is being unpacked. Read the highlighted diff for hedges before you accept it.

Simplifying a quotation

Quoted words have to stay as they were. Paraphrase outside the quotation marks and cite the source.

Assuming plain means childish

Plain English is what good newspapers and government guidance are written in. If the result sounds patronising, the strength is too high or the original was already simple.

Text simplifier FAQs

Is the text simplifier free?

Yes. Simple is one of the six free paraphrase modes, and you can use it without an account within the per-request word allowance shown next to the editor. Signing in raises the allowance; Pro removes the guest limits and the ads and adds the Academic, Creative and Custom modes and the Extensive synonyms level.

What reading level does the text simplifier aim for?

Plain English for a general adult reader: short sentences, everyday words, one idea per sentence. It does not target a school grade, and it will not remove a technical term that has no plain equivalent, because that would change the meaning.

Can I use it to simplify a research abstract for a lay audience?

Yes, and it is one of the best uses. Paste the abstract, run Simple at Balanced, then read the hedges: research writing is careful about "may" and "suggests", and you want those to survive. Freeze any term of art that must stay.

Is simplified text still a paraphrase of the source?

Yes. If the original is someone else's, you still cite it. The citation credits the idea, not the wording, and it is required even when every word has changed.

Will the text simplifier change names, numbers or dates?

Not unless you switch Protect names & numbers off. It is on by default, so a figure, a date, a citation or an organisation stays exactly as written while the sentence is rebuilt around it. You can also click any word and freeze it so it survives every run.

Can I see what the text simplifier changed?

Yes. The result comes back with every changed word highlighted against your original, and you can switch to the original at any time to compare. Click a highlighted word for alternatives, edit the result in place, or step back to an earlier version.

After the rewrite

Check the grammar of the result, shift its register with the tone changer, or summarise it when you only need the gist. One plan covers every tool.

Grammar checker Tone changer Summarizer All modes

Run Simple mode

One page per paraphrase mode

Each page opens the paraphraser with that mode already selected, shows a real before-and-after the tool returned, and explains what the mode changes and what it leaves alone. Standard, the default mode, is the main paraphraser page; Academic, Creative and Custom are part of Pro and live in the mode menu above.

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