PBText — Google Chrome Extension to bold, italic, and style for LinkedIn, Facebook, YouTube, and X

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What Is a Problem?

You have prepared you social media post.
Or even a set of them.
There is only one tiny problem.

You use bold, italic, inline code, strikethrough, or other styles.
But your favourite LinkedIn (or Facebook? YouTube? X?) converts your great text into the plain one.

How can you keep your formatting?
Neither create from scratch, nor change a bit.
Just keep as it is.

Is it possible at all?
Yes.

Quick and Stable

PBText do exactly the job: keeps your bold, italic, or other formatting, when you copy/paste your text from any editor to social network post.

Install PBText as a Google Chrome Extension. That is all.
Anything else works like a magic.

Alternative Solutions

It is better to have a choice, eh?

• LLM machine. Any LLM service (ChatGPT, Gemini, even your local one) may to prepare your formatted text to Unicode styled. Or may not. It is a kind of probability game, you know.
• Post Formatter. If your prefer to drive a spacestar ship, it is your choice.
• Flowpost. Simple and quick web solution, 150 symbols only.
• Text Formatter. Nice to see the result straightaway. Try it.
• Web Utility. 16 extra styles, even Gothic. We did not even think about some of them.

Prove It

So, why PBText? Well, it just works.
No interface. No extra buttons. No special markup.

And yes, it is free. Yet.

You Are Special

• Use any language but English? We supports Deutsch, Français, русский, Castellano, and other popular languages. Try your one.
• Write code snippets? You can copy/paste it with PBText smoothly. Prove your audience you are the developer, not an LLM operator.
• Prefer Markdown? We, too. That is why you can copy Markdown — and get formatted text in the post textarea. What a relief.
• Like checkboxes? One, two, three… Gotcha! We provide both ☑ and ▢ lists.
• Insert emojis accidentally? Now we have only 🔥 and 🌟. It is your turn to say which ones should be added.