Upside Down Text Generator

The result updates as you type, so there is no convert button. You work with two boxes: the input on the left and the flipped text on the right.

1. Type or paste your text into the Input box. Use Paste to pull it from the clipboard, or Clear to start again. Single words, sentences and several lines are all accepted.
2. Read the flipped version in the output box. The Words, Characters and Lines counters under the input follow what you typed.
3. Leave Reverse order too ticked for a true half turn. Untick it if you want each letter flipped but the original left-to-right order kept.
4. Press Copy to put the result on your clipboard, or Download .txt to save it as a file.

With Hello world and the box ticked, the output is plɹoʍ ollǝH. With the box unticked you get Hǝllo ʍoɹlp: the same flipped letters in their original order.

The generator is a lookup table, not a font. Every character is swapped for a Unicode character that looks like it has been turned through 180 degrees. If Reverse order too is on, the whole string is then read backwards, because the last character lands first when a page is rotated.

Reversal covers the whole text, so a two-line message comes out with the last line first, exactly as a rotated page would show it. The mirror tool, by contrast, reverses each line on its own. A few shapes are borrowed from other scripts: capital B becomes 𐐒 from the Deseret block, and the digits 2 and 4 use Hangul and Bopomofo shapes. Those are the characters most likely to appear as empty boxes on an older device.

A longer example shows the punctuation rules at work. The line Hello, World! 2024? becomes ¿ㄣᄅ0ᄅ ¡plɹoM 'ollǝH: the question mark leads, because the line is reversed, and it has turned into an inverted one. The exclamation mark and the comma have changed too, and the capital W has become an M. Lowercase text flips most cleanly, since several capitals rely on shapes from other scripts, so type in lowercase when a tidy look matters more than correct capitalisation.

Because the output is plain text, it pastes into any field that accepts Unicode: bios, display names, captions, comments and chat messages. No font has to be installed, although the exact shapes depend on the fonts of the device that displays them, so test on a phone before you rely on a long passage.

• Good for: jokes, puzzles, novelty names, cheeky sign-offs and short decorative lines.
• Poor for: contact details, links, hashtags, headings and anything somebody must find through search. Search engines and spell checkers see the odd symbols, not your words.
• Accessibility: screen readers announce the underlying symbols one by one, so the message is lost to anyone who relies on one. Keep important information in normal text.

For a left-to-right reflection rather than a rotation, use the mirror text generator. To reverse the order of characters without changing the letters, use the reverse text generator. To see the code point behind any flipped symbol, paste it into the Unicode text converter.