Best Free Glitch (Zalgo) Text Generator
Turn plain text into corrupted Zalgo glitch text — adjust the intensity and choose marks above, through or below. Free, in your browser.
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How it works
- Type your text. Enter or paste a word or sentence in the box — the glitched version updates live as you type.
- Set the intensity. Drag the intensity slider, or tap Mild, Medium or Heavy, to choose how many combining marks stack on each character.
- Copy the result. Optionally open Advanced options to put marks only above, through or below, then click Copy and paste the glitch text anywhere.
About this tool
Corrupt any text into glitchy, “cursed” Zalgo by stacking combining diacritical marks on top of each letter. Type a word and the output corrupts live; an intensity slider (with Mild, Medium and Heavy presets) controls how many marks pile onto each character, and three toggles decide where the marks go — above the letters, through them, and below them. The result is built from your real letters plus stacked Unicode combining marks, so it pastes as plain text wherever combining marks are allowed. Everything runs in your browser using JavaScript; nothing you type is uploaded or stored.
What people use it for
- Make a creepy or “cursed” username, title or bio for socials and games
- Add a glitch effect to a Discord or X post or a stream overlay caption
- Create eerie Halloween or horror-themed text for graphics and thumbnails
- Generate distorted text for memes, edits and aesthetic posts
Frequently asked questions
It is normal text with extra Unicode combining diacritical marks stacked on each character — the marks pile above, through and below the letters, giving the corrupted, melting “cursed” look. Your underlying letters stay the same; the glitch is the cloud of marks layered on top.
Drag the intensity slider (or tap Mild, Medium or Heavy) to set how many marks stack on each character. In Advanced options you can also turn the three layers on or off independently — marks above, through and below — and use Clean / reset.
No. It is not a typeface — it is your ordinary letters plus stacked combining marks. Because it is built from standard Unicode characters rather than a font file, the styling travels with the text when you copy and paste it.
Some platforms limit or strip combining marks to keep layouts tidy — Instagram, X and others may normalise or trim heavy stacks, so very intense Zalgo can render shorter or cleaner than it looks here. Lowering the intensity usually pastes more reliably.
Yes. Open Advanced options and toggle the layers: leave “Marks above” on for up-only glitch, “Marks below” on for down-only, or “Marks through” for overlay and strike marks — in any combination.
No signup and nothing to install. The corruption happens entirely in your browser with JavaScript, so the text you type is never uploaded, logged or stored, and the tool is completely free.
Yes — Glitch Text Generator is completely free, with no watermark on the output and no credit card required.
Yes. It runs in your browser, so Glitch Text Generator works on phones and tablets as well as desktop — there is no app to install.
Usually just a few seconds for a typical file — Glitch Text Generator starts working the moment you give it your input.
Casual use is unlimited, under a generous fair-use cap that keeps it fast for everyone.