Curly Quote and Em Dash Finder

Highlights curly quotes, apostrophes, em dashes and non-breaking spaces in pasted text and counts each kind.

Artifact by Simon Willison

IndexedApache-2.0Text & writingNo sign-up

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You provide: Pasted text
You get: Highlighted text with counts
Account: No sign-up needed
AI: No AI: a plain tool
Your input: Not stated: check the tool's privacy notes before using private data
Price: Free to use
Made with: AI-built app
Source: Open source
Link check: Answered on Nov 1, 2026

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Curly Quote and Em Dash Finder is an AI-built single-page app in the text writing category (typography check). It opens in your browser, so there is nothing to install. You provide pasted text and get highlighted text with counts. It needs no account. It is a plain tool: no AI model is involved. The source code is public on GitHub (simonw/tools).

Category: Text & writing · typography check

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Auth: No auth
License: Apache-2.0
Repository: github.com/simonw/tools
Website: tools.simonwillison.net/curly-emdash
First seen: Oct 31, 2026
Last checked: Nov 1, 2026
Source: GitHub

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Curly Quote and Em Dash Finder: free online tool. Agent Mart. https://agentmart.dev/artifacts/curly-quote-and-em-dash-finder (last updated 2026-11-01)