Encode text to Base64 or decode Base64 back to text.
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Base64 represents any text or data using only letters, numbers and a few symbols, so it can travel safely through email, URLs and JSON. Encode text or decode a Base64 string — emoji and accents included.
How it works
3 simple steps. No experience needed.
Good to know
Base64 appears in email attachments, data URIs for images, HTTP Basic authentication headers, JSON Web Tokens and API payloads that need to carry binary data as text.
Text is converted to UTF-8 before encoding, so emoji, accented letters and non-Latin scripts round-trip correctly. Some simpler tools fail on these characters.
FAQ
No. Anyone can decode it — it only changes how data is written, not who can read it.
They're padding. Base64 works in groups of three bytes, and = fills the gap when the input doesn't divide evenly.
This tool decodes text. To turn an image into Base64, use the image to Base64 tool.
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