Regular expressions are powerful… but let’s be honest — they’re a nightmare to remember.

Every time I need a regex, I end up doing one of these:

Googling: “regex for email validation”

Copy-pasting from StackOverflow

Re-testing it 10 times until it works

Still not understanding what it actually does

After years of frustration, I finally decided to fix this problem for myself.

So I built a simple AI-powered tool that converts plain English into a working regular expression — instantly.

No memorization. No RegEx cheat sheets. No headaches.

🧠 The Problem: Regex is Unnecessarily Hard

Regex is:

Cryptic (^\d{10}$)

Hard to debug

Easy to mess up

Difficult to read later

But 95% of the time, developers only need patterns for:

Email validation

Phone numbers

Dates

Password rules

IP addresses

URLs

So why are we still memorizing symbols instead of describing what we want?

✅ The Solution: Plain English → Regex

Now, instead of writing this:

^+?[1-9][0-9]{7,14}$

I just type:

“regex for valid Indian mobile number”

And the tool gives me:

✅ The regex ✅ An explanation ✅ Example matches

You can try it here (free, no signup): 👉 https://dev-brains-ai.com/regex-generator

🧪 Real Examples

Here are real inputs that work beautifully:

Plain English Input What I Get regex for email validation Full email regex match date in DD-MM-YYYY Date pattern exactly 4 digits PIN code pattern IPv4 address format IP regex strong password with symbol Password validator

Instead of memorizing patterns, I just describe my requirement naturally.

💡 Why This Saves Me Time

This small change saves me:

✅ 10–15 mins of Googling every time ✅ Countless StackOverflow visits ✅ Trial and error testing ✅ Mental energy

It also helps juniors & non-regex developers on my team.

🔐 Privacy First

Everything runs in the browser. No prompts are stored. No signup required.

You can use it as often as you need.

Try it here: 👉 https://dev-brains-ai.com/regex-generator

🚀 What’s Next?

I’m building more AI-powered dev tools like:

SQL Generator

Error Message Explainer

JSON Formatter

Schema Generator

You can explore all of them here: 👉 https://dev-brains-ai.com

🙋 I’d Love Your Feedback

If you use regex often, I’d love to know:

What’s the most annoying regex you’ve had to write recently?

Drop it in the comments and I’ll test it in the tool for you 👇