Skip to content
ToolQivo

Add Line Breaks

Break a long block into lines at a width, a count or a marker.

Text Tools Reviews Free · no sign-up

Quick Tool Overview

Add Line Breaks turns a long block into readable lines, breaking at a character width, after a word count, after each sentence or at a delimiter. Character wrapping breaks at spaces rather than mid-word, and long URLs can be left intact.

What it does
Inserts line breaks at a width, count or marker
You give it
A long block, a paragraph or a delimited string
You get back
The text broken into readable lines
Best for
Plain-text email, terminal output and editing review
Text Tools Free, unlimited use No sign-up Runs in your browser

About the Add Line Breaks

A block of text with no line breaks is unreadable in a terminal, breaks a fixed-width layout and is awkward in any editor without soft wrap. Adding breaks by hand means counting, which nobody does accurately past the second line.

This inserts them automatically at whichever boundary makes sense for what you are doing. At a character width, which is what a terminal or a plain-text email needs — 72 or 80 columns being the conventions. After a set number of words. After every sentence, which turns a paragraph into something easy to review line by line. Or after every occurrence of a delimiter, which is how you turn a comma-separated string back into a list. Character wrapping breaks at spaces rather than mid-word, and long unbroken strings such as URLs can be left intact.

Key features of the Add Line Breaks

Four break rules

Character width, word count, sentence end or delimiter — each suited to a different job.

Never breaks a word

Wrapping happens at spaces, so a word moves to the next line rather than being split in half.

URLs protected

Long unbroken runs are allowed to overflow rather than being split, because a broken URL stops working.

One sentence per line

A genuinely useful editing view — long sentences and repeated openings become obvious at a glance.

Standard widths built in

Seventy-two for email and eighty for terminals are one click, since those are the conventions.

How to use the Add Line Breaks

  1. 1

    Paste your text

    A long block, a paragraph or a delimited string.

  2. 2

    Choose where to break

    At a character width, after a word count, after each sentence, or at a delimiter.

  3. 3

    Set the width or count

    Seventy-two or eighty characters are the conventions for plain text and terminals.

  4. 4

    Protect long strings

    Leave URLs and other unbroken runs intact rather than splitting them across two lines.

Frequently asked questions

Seventy-two characters for plain-text email, which leaves room for quoting markers on replies. Eighty for terminal output and code comments. Sixty-five to seventy-five for prose intended to be read, which is the range typographers recommend.

Reviews of the Add Line Breaks

What people who use the Add Line Breaks think of it. Reviews come from visitors and are posted as written.

No ratings yet

Yours would be the first.

  • 5 0 reviews rated 5 stars
  • 4 0 reviews rated 4 stars
  • 3 0 reviews rated 3 stars
  • 2 0 reviews rated 2 stars
  • 1 0 reviews rated 1 star

Write a review

Used this tool? Your rating helps the next person decide.

Your rating

Plain text only — links, email addresses and HTML are not accepted. Your name and review are shown publicly; nothing else is collected. See the privacy policy.

0 reviews

Newest first

No reviews yet

Be the first to rate the Add Line Breaks. It takes half a minute and no account.

Write the first review

More text tools