How this instrument works
Title case is the capitalization style where the first letter of each word is uppercase and the rest of the word is lowercase — the style you see on book covers, headlines, and slide titles. It sits between sentence case (only the first word capitalized) and ALL CAPS (every letter capitalized), and it is the default a lot of people reach for whenever text needs to look intentionally formatted rather than typed in a hurry.
This tool applies the most common, general-purpose definition of title case: every word gets its first letter capitalized, and everything else in that word is forced to lowercase. It treats letters, digits, and apostrophes as part of the same word, so contractions like "it's" and hyphen-joined tokens like "day-2026" are capitalized as a single unit rather than being split apart.
Professional style guides — AP, Chicago, MLA — each have their own additional rule about lowercasing short connector words ("a", "the", "of", "and") in the middle of a title. This tool does not apply those style-guide-specific exceptions; it capitalizes every word's first letter uniformly. If you need AP- or Chicago-exact headline casing, treat this as a fast first pass and adjust the connector words by hand afterward.
- Click into the text field and type or paste the text you want converted.
- The title-cased result appears immediately below as you type — there is no submit button to press.
- Copy the result directly from the readout, or use the Copy link button to save a permalink that reproduces this exact input.
- To convert a new piece of text, just select all the text in the field and type or paste over it.
Cleaning up a shouty file name
Say you have a document titled "SOLVETUTOR math SOLVER" — typed in a hurry with the Caps Lock key half-engaged. Paste it into the text field and the tool returns "Solvetutor Math Solver": every word's first letter capitalized, the rest forced to lowercase regardless of how it was typed originally.
The same rule handles trickier cases correctly. Typing "it's a beautiful day-2026" returns "It's A Beautiful Day-2026" — the apostrophe in "it's" stays attached to the word instead of splitting it into two capitalized fragments, and the digits in "day-2026" are treated as part of that word's casing rather than being altered.
Questions
Does this follow AP or Chicago style headline capitalization rules?
No. AP, Chicago, and MLA style guides each lowercase certain short connector words (like "a", "the", "of", "and") when they fall in the middle of a title, and their exact word lists differ from each other. This tool applies the simpler, more common consumer definition of title case — every word's first letter capitalized, no exceptions — which is faster and unambiguous, but you may want to manually lowercase a few connector words afterward if you need exact AP or Chicago style.
What counts as a "word" for capitalization purposes?
Any run of letters, digits, or apostrophes. Spaces, hyphens, periods, and other punctuation mark the boundary between words. That means "it's" capitalizes as one word ("It's"), and "day-2026" is treated as two separate words split by the hyphen if you use a hyphen elsewhere, but the digits within a single run like "2026" stay attached to whatever letters immediately precede them with no separator.
Will this fix text that is already in ALL CAPS?
Yes — the tool always lowercases every letter that is not the first letter of its word, regardless of how the original text was capitalized. Pasting in "SOLVETUTOR MATH SOLVER" or "solvetutor math solver" both produce the identical result, "Solvetutor Math Solver".
Is my text sent anywhere when I use this tool?
No. The conversion runs entirely in your browser using JavaScript — nothing you type is sent to a server, logged, or stored anywhere outside your own device (aside from the optional worksheet log, which saves to your browser's local storage only if you choose to keep it).
Can I convert a whole paragraph at once, not just a short title?
Yes. The text field accepts up to 2,000 characters, which covers anything from a short headline to several paragraphs of body text. The same word-by-word capitalization rule applies uniformly no matter how long the input is.