Email Reply Cleaner
Paste a replied or forwarded email and instantly get just the fresh message — no quotes, reply chain, or signature.
About this tool
Email Reply Cleaner pulls the fresh message out of a replied or forwarded plain-text email
so you're left with only what the person actually wrote this time — no > quote markers, no
"On … wrote:" reply chain, and no signature or mobile footer. It's the quick way to grab a clean
quote for notes, a ticket, a changelog, or an LLM prompt without hand-deleting the cruft.
Everything runs locally in your browser — the email you paste is never uploaded.
Worked example
Email text
Hi Bob,
Friday works — see you at 10.
Best,
Alice
--
Alice Smith
Acme Corp
On Mon, Jan 1, 2024 at 10:00 AM Bob <[email protected]> wrote:
> Are you free on Friday?
> Let me know.
Cleaned message
Hi Bob,
Friday works — see you at 10.
Best,
Alice
The -- delimiter and everything below it (the signature and the whole quoted reply chain) are
cut, and the surrounding blank lines are tidied.
What each pass does
- Remove quoted lines (>) — drop every line that begins with the
>quote marker, including nested>>and lines indented before the>. - Remove reply chain — cut at the first reply boundary and everything below it: an
On … wrote:attribution, an Outlook-----Original Message-----/From:header block, or a---------- Forwarded message ----------/Begin forwarded message:rule. - Remove signature — cut at the RFC 3676
--delimiter or a common mobile/app footer (Sent from my iPhone,Get Outlook for …) and everything below it. - Collapse blank lines — fold runs of blank lines into one and trim blank lines off the top and bottom.
Each pass is a checkbox and all four are on by default — turn one off to keep, say, the quoted text but still strip the signature.
Limits
- Plain text only — paste the text body, not raw HTML email markup.
- Attribution detection is English-focused: it keys on the
On … wrote:line. The structural markers (>prefixes, the--delimiter,From:/Sent:headers, forwarded- message rules) are language-neutral, but a translated attribution line may not be caught. - Signature detection is heuristic (the
--delimiter plus a short list of known mobile/app footers), not a trained classifier, so an unusual signature with no delimiter may remain. - A single-line attribution is detected; a header wrapped across two lines (as Gmail sometimes
wraps
On … wrote:at 80 columns) is not.
FAQ
What exactly gets removed from my email?
By default, four things: lines starting with the > quote marker, the quoted reply chain (from
the On … wrote: attribution, an Outlook -----Original Message----- / From: header block, or
a forwarded-message rule downward), the signature (from the -- delimiter or a mobile footer
downward), and extra blank lines. Each is a separate checkbox, so you can keep any of them.
Does it handle forwarded messages and Outlook-style headers?
Yes. Remove reply chain cuts at a ---------- Forwarded message ---------- /
Begin forwarded message: rule and at an Outlook -----Original Message----- marker or a
From: Name <addr@host> header line, removing that block and everything below it.
Why is my signature or attribution still showing?
Detection is heuristic. Signatures are found by the RFC 3676 -- delimiter or a known mobile
footer, so a signature with no delimiter can slip through. Attribution detection is
English-focused (On … wrote:) and only catches single-line attributions — a translated or
line-wrapped header may not match. You can delete the leftover manually, or turn a pass off if it
is removing too much.
Is my email uploaded anywhere?
No. The cleaning runs entirely in your browser via WebAssembly — the text you paste never leaves your device.
Developer & Automation Access
Run it from the terminal
Same engine as this page, headless — via the gizza CLI:
gizza tool email-reply-cleaner "Paste the replied or forwarded email here…"New to the CLI? Get gizza →
Open it by URL
Pre-fill and auto-run this tool with query parameters — the names match the API/CLI:
https://gizza.ai/tools/email-reply-cleaner/?text=Paste%20the%20replied%20or%20forwarded%20email%20here%E2%80%A6&remove_quotes=true&remove_reply_chain=true&remove_signature=true&collapse_blank_lines=trueMachine-readable descriptor: tool.json — title + parameters JSON Schema for agents.