TXT viewer
To open a TXT file, drop it in the box below. It opens straight away, even with no extension or the wrong one. Your browser opens it on your device: nothing is uploaded.
What you see
| TXT in the viewer | |
|---|---|
| Encodings | UTF-8, UTF-16, Windows-1252, found for you |
| Size | First 2 MB at once, up to 64 MB in full; any size as bytes |
| Lines | Numbered, wrapping optional |
| Logs | .log files open the same way |
| Extensions | .txt, .log, .text |
| Upload | None: opened on your device |
What is a TXT file?
A text file holds plain words with no formatting: notes, logs, lists and exports.
The text with line numbers, in a fixed-width font, with line wrapping and copy. The text encoding (UTF-8, UTF-16 or Windows-1252) is found for you. Large files show the first 2 MB at once and all of it, up to 64 MB, on request.
How to open a TXT file
- Add your TXT. Drop the file in the box, choose it or paste it.
- Look at it. The text with line numbers, in a fixed-width font, with line wrapping and copy. The text encoding (UTF-8, UTF-16 or Windows-1252) is found for you. Large files show the first 2 MB at once and all of it, up to 64 MB, on request.
- Take it further. Download any file from inside an archive, or open another file.
Questions
Drop it here: the first 2 MB show at once, the rest on request. A log that is really a CSV opens in the Large CSV viewer.
The file is in a different text encoding. The viewer tries UTF-8 first and falls back to Windows-1252, which fixes most of these.
No. The viewer runs in your browser and opens the file on your device. Nothing is sent anywhere.