Caesar Cipher / ROT13 Encoder & Decoder

Shift letters by a fixed amount to encode or decode. ROT13 is shift-13 — one click away.

About this tool

One of the oldest ciphers: shift every letter forward by a fixed amount, wrapping from z back to a. ROT13 is the special case where shift=13 (encode and decode are the same operation).

Cracking an unknown shift

Only 25 possible shifts — ‘Show all 25 shifts’ tries every one so you can spot the readable result. Nothing is uploaded.