Is there a difference between translator and converter?

In practice, no — both terms describe the same bi-directional morse tool. 'Translator' is more common in radio and education; 'converter' is more common in web-tool search results. Our converter is the same engine as our translator, different framing.

Does the converter support multiple languages?

We support the international (ITU) morse alphabet, which is built for Latin letters A–Z plus digits and punctuation. Languages with non-Latin alphabets (Russian, Japanese, Greek) have their own morse variants which aren't in our table.

Is this converter safe to use for sensitive phrases?

Yes — the conversion runs entirely in your browser with JavaScript. We don't log, store, or transmit the text you type. See our privacy page for details.

Can the converter handle numbers and punctuation, not just letters?

Yes. It covers the full ITU set — the ten digits, common punctuation (period, comma, question mark, slash, colon), and symbols like @ and &. Each punctuation mark is treated as its own character, so a sentence converted to morse and back returns with its punctuation intact.

Morse Code Converter – Both Directions, Free & Fast

What “converter” means here

Some tools call themselves converters but only handle one direction. This page does both: toggle the switch above the input to flip between Text → Morse and Morse → Text. The output updates in real time as you type.

Any conversion that isn't round-trip-clean (e.g. you paste text with emoji that have no morse equivalent) is handled gracefully — unknown characters get silently dropped from encode, unknown morse sequences get silently dropped from decode. You always get the usable part of your input, never a partial result full of question marks.

Features you get for free on this page

Audio playback at 5–40 WPM via a native sine-tone oscillator in your browser.
Farnsworth spacing — character-speed decoupled from word-speed, ideal for learners.
Flashlight mode — the page flashes in time with the morse. Useful for teaching, and for signaling outdoors with your phone screen.
Shareable URL encoding of the input, so you can send someone a link that opens this converter with your phrase pre-loaded.

When you want this converter vs. a more specific tool

If you're only encoding English to morse, the English to morse page is framed for that. If you're only decoding, try morse to English. The converter page is best when you're flipping between directions (e.g. while drafting a jewelry phrase or prepping a puzzle clue).

Both directions, shown once

The two directions are exact inverses, which is what makes a single tool honest. Encode the greeting HI and you get .... .. — four dots for H, a single-space letter gap, then two dots for I. Feed that same .... .. back through the decode direction and it returnsHI untouched. The only thing that ever breaks a clean round-trip is a character with no morse equivalent (an emoji, a curly quote): the converter drops it rather than inventing a symbol, so what survives is always genuine morse.

Numbers, punctuation, and the parts most converters skip

A lot of “converters” quietly handle only A–Z. This one carries the full ITU set: digits (5 is the tidy ....., five even dots), a period (.-.-.-), comma, question mark, slash, and the @ sign — .--.-., the newest official character, added by the ITU in 2004 for email addresses. If you paste a full sentence with commas and a question mark, the converter spaces each punctuation mark as its own character, so decoding it later reconstructs the sentence rather than a run of letters.