The short version
Textoria is a free collection of 22 text tools that run entirely in your browser, plus a library of long-form guides about writing, editing, and the mechanics of words. It is edited by Nicolas David and was founded in 2026 by a small, independent editorial team that got tired of the alternatives. This page explains why the site exists, what we publish, and the rules we work under.
The problem with most text tools
You need one number: the word count of a college application essay. You search, click the first result, and get a text box ringed by pop-ups, a video ad with the sound on, and a banner offering to rewrite your essay for you. The counter is somewhere in there. It probably works. But you notice the little spinner that fires when you paste your draft, and a reasonable question forms: did my unpublished essay just travel to someone's server?
Across the text-tools web, the honest answer is usually yes. The tool is the bait, and the writing you feed it helps pay for the hosting. Or the tool is so shallow it barely deserves the name: a character counter that chokes on an emoji, a grammar checker that underlines half your document until you buy the premium version.
Textoria is a refusal of that deal. Every one of our tools runs client-side, in JavaScript, on your own machine. When you paste a chapter, a contract, or an application essay into any of them, your text is processed locally and never leaves your device. There is no upload, because there is nothing to upload to. No accounts, no email walls, no logs of what you typed. The site is free, and it stays free.
What we publish
Tools, and writing about words.
The tools come in four families. Counting and analysis tools measure a document down to its characters, sentences, paragraphs, and lines, and score how readable it is. Cleaning and editing tools strip out the mess that copying and pasting introduces: double spaces, duplicate lines, stray formatting. Converters and generators handle publishing's small format chores, from headline casing and URL slugs to placeholder copy and Markdown-to-HTML conversion. Grammar and writing tools check your prose against rules, flag misspellings, compare two texts, and measure overlap against sources you supply.
The guides are the other half of the site. They are long-form, practical, and written to stand on their own: what readability formulas actually measure, what counts as plagiarism when the answer is not obvious, how to proofread your own work without going cross-eyed. A tool tells you what is in your document. A good guide helps you decide what to do about it.
How we work
One rule governs everything else: document the limits.
Every tool page on Textoria tells you what the tool cannot do. Our grammar checker is rule-based. It catches common patterns, like subject-verb agreement slips, doubled words, and confusions between "their" and "there," but it does not understand your sentences' meaning the way a human editor does. Our spelling checker runs against a built-in dictionary of common English words, so it flags proper nouns and specialist vocabulary it has never seen. Our plagiarism checker compares your text against sources you provide; it has no web index and no database of student papers, so a "clean" result means clean against what you gave it. We print that sentence on the page where you need to see it.
Privacy follows the same logic. Your draft is never uploaded, sold, or used to build an advertising profile. Textoria is free and supported by advertising, but the ad code runs alongside the tools and never receives what you type; our privacy policy sets out exactly what Google's advertising services can and cannot see. Beyond that, the only storage the site uses is your browser's own local storage, for preferences like your theme and your spelling ignore list.
The guides follow the rule too. No fabricated statistics, no imaginary studies, no numbers we cannot source. A site that overpromises wins clicks and loses trust, and we would rather lose a visitor to an honest sentence than keep one with a claim we cannot back.
The team
Textoria is edited by Nicolas David, who reviews every guide before publication and handles corrections. The wider team is small: writers and editors who came to this project the way our visitors come to the site, with documents that needed measuring, cleaning, or checking, and no patience left for what the search results offered. Every tool is tested on real documents before it ships, which means student essays, client contracts, a spreadsheet exported to text with the formatting half-shredded, and Markdown files with nesting that would make a parser weep. If a tool breaks on a real document, we fix the tool.
The standards behind that work are public in our editorial policy: how guides are written and reviewed, how corrections are dated, and how advertising is kept separate from editorial judgment.
Being small has advantages. No shareholders asking why the word counter is not collecting email addresses. No growth team optimizing pop-up density. Just editors who care whether the character counter handles a hyphenated compound correctly, and who check.
Say hello
The site makes two promises: free, and honest about what it can and cannot do. If either looks broken from where you sit, write to us at info@textoria.online. Corrections, tool ideas, privacy questions, or the document that finally defeated our grammar checker: we read everything, and we usually reply within a few business days. Our contact page explains what to include in a message so we can help on the first pass.