Em Dash Remover
Replace em dashes with a hyphen, comma or nothing at all.
Paste your text and every em dash (—) and en dash (–) is replaced instantly. Your text stays on your own computer - it is never uploaded, never stored and never seen by anyone.
Preview
Every dash we found is highlighted so you can check the result before you copy it.
Your text stays on your own computer
This tool never uploads anything. Here is what that actually means for you.
Nothing is sent to us
What you put in here does not travel over the internet. It stays on the device you are using right now.
Nothing is stored
There is no copy on a server and no database with your content in it, because it never reaches us in the first place.
Nobody can read it
Not our team, not other visitors, not any other company. There is nothing to read, because nothing arrives.
It is never used to train AI
Your content is not fed into any AI model and not passed on to an AI provider.
It disappears when you close the tab
Nothing is left behind. Reload the page and the tool simply starts empty again.
Do not take our word for it
Open this page, then switch off your wifi or unplug the network cable. The tool keeps working perfectly. That is only possible because all the work happens on your own computer, not on ours.
That makes this safe for text you would never send by email: client work, contracts, medical or legal documents, exam material, unpublished writing and internal company information.
Choose your replacement
A spaced hyphen, a plain hyphen, a comma, a space or nothing at all. Different sentences need different fixes, so you decide.
En dashes too
Em dash (—), en dash (–), figure dash (‒) and horizontal bar (―) are all handled in one pass.
Line breaks stay intact
Spaces around a dash are tidied up, but a dash at the end of a line never pulls the next line up into it.
Your text stays private
Nothing is uploaded, nothing is stored and nobody can read what you paste. Close the tab and it is gone for good.
Why is my text full of em dashes?
The em dash (—) is a long dash used to break a sentence, add an aside or replace a colon. It is perfectly correct punctuation, and skilled writers have used it for centuries. What changed is the frequency: large language models such as ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini use em dashes far more often than most people do, which is why an unusually dash-heavy text now reads as machine-written to many people.
Em dash, en dash and hyphen
The three characters look similar but are different: the hyphen (-) joins words such as "well-known", the en dash (–) marks ranges such as "10–20", and the em dash (—) breaks a sentence. Because a hyphen sits on every keyboard and the other two do not, text that is typed by hand tends to use hyphens where generated text uses the typographic characters. Style also differs by region: American style usually closes the em dash up against the words, while British and most European styles surround it with spaces.
How to replace them well
There is no single correct replacement, which is why this tool asks. A spaced hyphen keeps the pause and reads naturally in most European languages. A comma works when the dash was really an aside. Removing the dash entirely works when it separated two complete sentences that can simply be split. Read the result once before you publish it: the point is text that reads like you, not text that has been run through a filter.