Strikethrough Text Generator

Curious how this tool actually places lines over your words? It uses something called Unicode combining marks. This means the lines attach directly to your text characters, making it super easy to copy and paste anywhere—Chats, bios, or social posts—without turning your words into an image.

Since every app has its own way of rendering fonts, sticking to the classic style in our strikethrough text generator is generally your safest bet. It plays nicely with almost all platforms compared to some of the crazy decorative line variants.

Here's the deal: this tool adds actual layering marks over each letter you type. Markdown, on the other hand, wraps your words in symbols (like double tildes), hoping that the app you paste into knows how to format it.

This matters because markdown won’t cross out your words everywhere. While we include markdown options for your convenience, our strikethrough text generator really shines by giving you true Unicode lines that travel directly with your text.

Crossed-out text and strikethrough text usually mean the same thing: letters with a line running through them. If you searched for a crossed out text generator, the classic strike style is the safest place to start because it creates copy-ready Unicode text instead of an image.

Markdown is a different method. It can work in apps that understand markdown-style wrappers, but Unicode crossed-out text travels with the characters themselves, which is why it is useful for bios, captions, notes, and quick social edits.

People love crossing things out to show price drops, mark tasks as done, add a sarcastic comment, or show a funny before-and-after edit. It adds an immediate visual tone to whatever you're sharing.

Just a quick tip: keep it brief! This effect is amazing on short sentences or titles, but if you cross out a giant paragraph, it can become really tough for your friends to read.

Type or paste up to 1,000 characters into Input Text. The Output Preview updates with the currently selected style, so you can compare the transformed line with the original before anything reaches your clipboard.

Start with Classic Strike when you simply need a line through a completed task, old price, or corrected phrase. Keep the effect to a short passage when possible; a full paragraph covered in combining marks is harder to scan and more likely to wrap unpredictably.

Classic Strike, Short Strike, Slash, Long Slash, and Reverse Slash append a different Unicode combining mark after every non-space character. The tool also includes single and double underlines, overlines, a dotted treatment, and a wavy underline built with the same character-by-character method.

These results remain text rather than an image, so Copy Output includes the original characters plus their attached marks. Spaces are left unmodified, but punctuation and letters receive the selected mark; that detail explains why dense punctuation or emoji can produce uneven-looking lines.

The Markdown option does not add a Unicode mark to every character. It wraps the entire input in two tildes on each side, producing a value such as `~~draft approved~~` for apps that parse that syntax as strikethrough.

Use Markdown only when the destination explicitly supports it. In a plain text field, unsupported social profile, or app with different formatting rules, the tildes may remain visible; Unicode Classic Strike is the better test candidate when you need the crossed-out appearance to travel with the copied characters.

Classic Strike is labeled Best support in the style menu, while Reverse Slash is marked Experimental. Even the better-supported combining marks can sit higher, lower, or farther across a letter when the destination uses a different font or text-rendering engine.

Some apps normalize text, remove combining characters, or display them awkwardly beside emoji and non-Latin scripts. The generator cannot force another platform to use the same font, and it does not convert the line into CSS formatting, so the output must be checked where readers will actually see it.

Strikethrough is useful for a visibly completed checklist item, a replaced price, an edited joke, or a before-and-after phrase. Pair it with an unmarked replacement or a short label so readers can tell whether the old wording is cancelled, historical, or intentionally sarcastic.

Screen readers and search tools may still encounter the underlying letters, and a listener may not hear the visual line at all. Do not use the effect as a security measure or as the only way to communicate deletion, availability, discounts, or other information that affects a decision.

Copy the output and paste it into a draft on the target platform. Compare spaces, line breaks, punctuation, accented letters, and emoji with the source, then view the draft on both a narrow mobile screen and the desktop or web client your audience commonly uses.

If marks collide, disappear, or make the sentence difficult to read, return to Classic Strike, shorten the affected phrase, or use the destination's native formatting controls. For Markdown, publish only after the draft view confirms that the surrounding tildes are parsed rather than shown literally.