Text to Binary Converter
See your text as raw 8-bit binary — and turn any bit stream back into readable text.
About this tool
Computers store your text as numbers and numbers as bits. This converter shows exactly which UTF-8 bytes — and therefore which 0/1 sequences — your characters produce, and decodes binary back into text. Accented characters and emoji, which encode to multiple bytes, are handled correctly in both directions.
How to use it
- Type text and click Text → Binary ▸ to see space-separated 8-bit groups.
- Paste binary (spaces, commas and line breaks are ignored) and click ◂ Binary → Text.
Good to know
- Encoding is UTF-8: characters beyond ASCII use two, three or four bytes.
- Decoding warns you when the bytes are not valid UTF-8 instead of failing silently.
- For hexadecimal instead of bits, use the Text to Hex converter.