Text to Binary Converter

Choose a format under From and To, then type or paste your input. Results update as you type. Use the swap button to reverse the direction without re-entering a valid result.

You can convert between Text, Binary, and Hex in either direction. Copy the output or download it as a text file. For encoding and separator settings, open Options below the format selectors.

Select Binary → Text and enter a sequence of eight-bit bytes, such as . The result is . Spaces and line breaks are optional because the converter reads complete bytes in order.

Choose UTF-8 for ordinary modern text, including accented characters and emoji, or ASCII for seven-bit data. If the bit count is not divisible by eight or the bytes are invalid for the selected encoding, the tool reports an error rather than guessing.

ASCII assigns values from 0 to 127 to English letters, digits, punctuation, and control characters. UTF-8 preserves those same byte values but also represents the rest of Unicode using two, three, or four bytes when needed.

For example, is in both ASCII and UTF-8. The letter needs two UTF-8 bytes, , and cannot be encoded using strict ASCII. The converter never silently substitutes an unsupported character in ASCII mode.

One byte contains eight bits and can be written as two hexadecimal digits. The letter becomes binary or hex ; neither representation changes the underlying byte.

Select Binary → Hex or Hex → Binary to change the notation without decoding it as text. This is useful when reading encoded strings, debugging byte values, or comparing data shown in different formats.

Binary and hex output can be separated by spaces, new lines, no separator, or a custom punctuation string. When reading binary or hex, the converter accepts whitespace and the configured custom separator. Digits still have to form complete bytes.

You can also open or drop a text file into the input area, then copy or download the converted result. The file is read locally; the tool is for text representations of bytes, not raw binary-file inspection.

Expand the Character & byte inspector to see each text code point alongside its Unicode value, UTF-8 hex bytes, and binary bytes. The counters show the number of bytes and bits, plus code points and lines when text is available.

A small detail that often surprises beginners: the typed digit is binary . The byte is NUL, a control character, not the digit zero. Spaces and line breaks have byte values too.

This is a text-and-byte converter, not a number-base calculator. If you want to convert the number 1011 from binary to decimal 11, that is a different operation from decoding byte as text.

Binary and hex are representations, not encryption. Converting a message into zeros and ones does not conceal its contents.