About the JSON to Text
Turn JSON into indented plain text, with one key: value pair per line, so it's easy to read or paste into an email or report.
Key features
- Readable key: value lines without brackets or quotes
- Indentation shows nesting
- Arrays rendered as bullet-style lists
- Null values shown as (empty)
- Ideal for emails, tickets and reports
- Copy or download as .txt
Make JSON readable for everyone
Not everyone reads JSON comfortably. Braces, brackets and quotes get in the way when you're pasting order details into a support ticket, summarizing an API response in an email, or adding data to a report. JSON to Text turns structured data into simple, indented key: value lines that anyone can understand.
Example
{
"order": 1001,
"customer": { "name": "Ada Lovelace", "email": "ada@example.com" },
"items": [ { "sku": "A1", "qty": 2 } ],
"coupon": null
}
order: 1001
customer:
name: Ada Lovelace
email: ada@example.com
items:
- [1]
sku: A1
qty: 2
coupon: (empty)
Where plain-text JSON helps
- Customer support. Paste order or account details into tickets and replies.
- Status reports. Summarize API or monitoring data for non-technical readers.
- Chat messages. Slack and Teams messages are easier to read without JSON syntax.
- Printing. Clean text prints better than raw JSON.
- Accessibility. Screen readers handle plain text more gracefully than punctuation-heavy JSON.
Formatting rules
| JSON | Text |
|---|---|
"key": "value" | key: value |
| Nested object | Key on its own line, fields indented 2 spaces |
| Array of values | One - value line per item |
| Array of objects | - [n] followed by indented fields |
null | (empty) |
true / false | true / false |
Related tools
Need YAML, which looks similar but is machine-readable? Use JSON to YAML. For a table, use JSON to HTML or JSON to CSV.
How to use the JSON to Text
- Paste your data into the input box, upload a file, or click Sample to try it out.
- Adjust the options above the editor if you need to (indentation, delimiter, and so on).
- The Text appears instantly in the output panel. Any errors are shown with their line and column.
- Click Copy to copy the result, or Download to save it as a file.