Convert BibTeX to Markdown.
Drop a .bib file and get a tidy Markdown reference list in seconds. It runs entirely in your browser, so your file never leaves your device.
Drag & drop your files
or
Optimize for AI & RAG
Extra cleanup for LLM ingestion: strip HTML, fix smart quotes, tidy Unicode and spacing.
Add YAML front matter
Prepend a metadata block (title, source, date, word & token counts) for knowledge bases and RAG.
Add table of contents
Build a linked index from the headings. Handy for long documents.
Export RAG chunks (.json)
Split the result into retrieval-ready chunks. Download per file from the result panel.
Most converters quietly upload your documents to a server. This one physically can't.
Built for LaTeX,
not for reading.
A .bib file is a stack of @article and @book entries wrapped in braces and citation keys, meant for a LaTeX engine. Converting turns each entry into a readable Markdown reference.
@article{smith2026,
title = {On Markdown},
author = {Jane Smith and John Doe},
journal = {Journal of Docs},
year = {2026},
doi = {10.1000/abcd}
}
## On Markdown
- **Authors:** Jane Smith, John Doe
- **Year:** 2026
- **Published:** Journal of Docs
- **DOI:** 10.1000/abcd
- **Type:** article
Everything you
actually need.
A .bib file in, a clean reference list out, with no server and no account anywhere.
It never leaves your browser
Your .bib is read and parsed on your own device. Nothing is uploaded to any server, ever.
# Heading
- point one
3 chunks
AI & RAG ready
Optional cleanup, YAML front matter, a table of contents and RAG chunk export.
Works offline
Once the page has loaded you can switch off your connection and it keeps converting.
## On Markdown
- Authors: Jane Smith
- Year: 2026
Entries become a reference list
Each entry turns into a heading with author, year and source bullets below it.
Unicode safe
Accents, symbols and non-Latin scripts come through intact as UTF-8.
Free, and unlimited
No sign-up, no quotas, no watermarks. Convert one file or a thousand; it all runs the same way, on your own device.
What carries
across.
Honest about which fields come through, and which don't. These are the same notes the Formats list shows for BibTeX, so the page never drifts from what the converter really does.
Kept
4- Each entry title and type
- Authors and year
- Journal or book title and publisher
- DOI and URL
Dropped
4- The citation key
- Pages and volume
- Editor
- Abstract
BibTeX questions,
answered.
Everything worth knowing before you drop in a .bib file.
Other converters.
Working with more than .bib files? These convert the same way: privately, in your browser.
TSV to Markdown
.tsv
Tab-separated value tables.
Parquet to Markdown
.parquet
Columnar big-data tables.
Gnumeric to Markdown
.gnumeric
Gnumeric spreadsheets.
SYLK to Markdown
.slk
Legacy symbolic-link spreadsheets.
Data Interchange to Markdown
.dif
DIF tabular data exchange.
PowerPoint to Markdown
.pptx
Microsoft PowerPoint slide decks.
OpenDocument Presentation to Markdown
.odp · .fodp
LibreOffice Impress decks.
PDF to Markdown
Text-based PDF documents.