Strip every space, tab and hidden Unicode space from Perplexity answers. Free, runs entirely in your browser, no upload, no run limit.
Perplexity space remover
This app deletes every space character in text copied from a Perplexity answer and returns one continuous string. Ordinary spaces, tabs, line breaks and the invisible Unicode spaces that can ride along with the text are all stripped in the same pass.
It runs on your device. Paste, press the button, copy the result. Nothing you paste is uploaded.
Why it happens
Perplexity builds an answer by retrieving and summarising several live web pages, and its text is quoted from, or paraphrased alongside, snippets pulled from those pages. Each source has its own CMS habits around non-breaking and Unicode spaces, so a Perplexity answer can inherit a wider variety of space characters than a reply generated purely inside one chat interface.
Perplexity's own interface also renders the answer as rich text before you copy it, the same step that can substitute a non-breaking space to hold formatting.
That combination, several sources plus a rendering pass on top, is why a Perplexity answer is one of the harder ones on this site to clean by eye. Two visually identical gaps in the same paragraph can be two different codepoints, one inherited from a cited page and one added by the renderer itself, and there's no way to tell which is which without a tool that checks the actual bytes.
Workflow
Nothing to configure.
What comes out
A dedicated remover beats find-and-replace because the space bar produces one character, while several others render as a gap and survive a search for a normal space.
Why it matters
A term copied into a spreadsheet fails to match an identical-looking value, because a non-breaking space carried over from a cited page sits where an ordinary one belongs. A slug built from a Perplexity-drafted heading resolves to the wrong address.
A citation key pasted into a bibliography manager can silently fail to match for the same reason.
Straight answer
Every one. This app turns Perplexity's text into a single continuous string, which is what a slug, a key or a whitespace-rejecting field needs.
To keep single spaces and only collapse runs of two or more, use the whitespace minifier. To join broken lines into a paragraph, use the Perplexity line break remover.
Who it's for
Researchers building a citation key out of a Perplexity answer use it before pasting into a bibliography manager, so a stray non-breaking space doesn't break a lookup.
Developers pulling identifiers or sample values out of Perplexity's output use it before pasting into code, and anyone building slugs from Perplexity-drafted headings uses it because those fields reject spaces outright.
Citations
A citation number sitting right after a word is exactly the kind of pair a renderer prefers not to split across a line break, so Perplexity's interface can hold that gap with a non-breaking space instead of an ordinary one. Copy the sentence out and the citation number rides along attached to a space that looks fine on screen and behaves differently in any system that treats the two as separate characters.
This shows up most when pulling one specific claim and its citation into a document or bibliography tool, rather than the whole answer at once. Strip the surrounding spaces and the citation number stays exactly where it was, just as a plain, ordinary character with nothing riding along beside it.
Paste it into the box and press Remove spaces.
Yes. No signup, no trial, no usage limit.
No. Processing happens in your browser.
Answers are built by summarising several web pages, so the text can carry over a non-breaking or Unicode space from a cited source.
Use the whitespace minifier instead.
Yes, tabs and newlines are whitespace too.
Yes, along with thin, hair and ideographic spaces.
No length cap and no run limit.
Yes, in any modern mobile browser.
No. Only whitespace is removed.
No, citation markers are ordinary characters and are left in place.
This removes every space. The minifier collapses runs of spaces into one.
That's expected: removing every space joins the words.
Yes, the full-width ideographic space is recognised and removed.
Not on its own. Use the text splitter.
No. It's a single browser tool with no account.
Yes. Nothing leaves your browser and nothing is stored.
No, use the Perplexity zero-width space remover for invisible characters that don't leave a visible gap.
Perplexity's renderer can hold the gap between a word and its citation number with a non-breaking space so the two don't split across a line, and that character isn't the same as an ordinary space.
No, the digits or brackets in a citation marker are ordinary characters and stay exactly where they were. Only whitespace is affected.
Not meaningfully. The mixture depends more on the pages retrieved and Perplexity's own renderer than on which Focus mode produced the answer.
Yes, the source list is ordinary text and gets the same treatment as the rest of the paste.