Strikethrough Text Generator

What crossed-out text says

A line through words keeps them readable while marking them as no longer valid. On social media that is useful in a few specific ways:

• Prices and offers: “w̶a̶s̶ ̶$̶5̶0̶, now $35” shows the discount at a glance. Strike only the old price.
• Corrections in public: fix a mistake in a post or comment without hiding what was there, which is more honest than silently editing.
• Jokes and asides: “I l̶o̶v̶e̶ tolerate Mondays” says one thing and means another; the crossed-out word is the punchline.
• Lists and updates: mark finished items or sold-out sizes in a caption: “S̶ ̶M̶ L XL”.

How it differs from real strikethrough

Word processors and email apps store strikethrough as formatting: the letters are normal and a style draws the line. This generator changes the characters instead, by adding a combining stroke after each one. That is why it works in apps with no formatting at all, and also why it has side effects: search does not find the words, the character count doubles, and screen readers may announce the stroke for every letter or skip the text. The generator also strikes through spaces, so the line is continuous across the phrase; if you want it on single words only, strike them one by one.

Common mistakes

• Striking through text that people need to read. Keep important details plain; a struck-through word should be one the reader can ignore.
• Pasting it into a document. In Word or Google Docs, use the real strikethrough (Alt+Shift+5 in Google Docs, the abc button in Word). It prints cleanly and stays editable.
• Hitting character limits. Every letter becomes two characters, so a 150-character Instagram bio fits only about 75 struck-through characters.
• Striking through already struck text. Pasting the result back in is safe: the generator removes its own existing strokes first, so you never get a double line.