Sentence Case Converter

Capitalize the first letter of every sentence, lowercase the rest

Original text

Sentence case

Nothing you type here is ever sent anywhere — the conversion runs entirely in your browser.

About this tool

Sentence case is the normal capitalization style of everyday writing: the first word of each sentence is capitalized and everything else is lowercase, aside from proper nouns you'd capitalize manually. It's the fix you reach for when text arrives shouting in ALL CAPS from a form field, or with random capitalization from a sticky Caps Lock key. This tool lowercases the entire text first, then capitalizes the very first letter and the first letter following any sentence-ending punctuation (. ! ?), giving you clean, standard sentence formatting in one pass.

Does it recognize proper nouns and capitalize them correctly?

No — sentence case only capitalizes the first letter of each sentence. Proper nouns like names or place names (e.g., "Paris" or "John") will come out lowercase unless you capitalize them manually afterward.

What counts as the start of a new sentence?

A period, exclamation mark or question mark followed by whitespace and a letter is treated as the start of a new sentence, and that letter is capitalized.

How is this different from Title Case?

Title Case capitalizes most words in a heading or title, while Sentence case only capitalizes the first word of each sentence — the style you'd normally use for regular body text and paragraphs.

Fixing capitalization

Text typed in capitals, or with capitals scattered at random, is rewritten so each sentence starts with a capital and the rest is lowercase. Sentences are detected from periods, question marks and exclamation marks.

It rescues text typed with caps lock on, subtitles and transcripts that arrive in capitals, and headings that were copied in a different style. It's also what you want for the body text of an article, while headlines belong in Title Case.

Because everything else is lowercased, names and acronyms inside a sentence will lose their capitals. Fix those by hand, or after conversion use Find and Replace for the usual suspects.

A quick example

Before
hELLO there. THIS is a TEST. what now?
After
Hello there. This is a test. What now?

Good to know

Proper nouns, "I" and acronyms like NASA need their capitals put back after conversion.