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Clean Text for Mac

Clean text docs with random spaces or line breaks.

$19.95
In English
Version 8.4
3.7
Based on 14 user rates

Clean Text overview

Clean Text is an application for those times when you have to paste some text copied from one document or application into another, and you want the text to get the attributes (such as color, font, dimension and style) of the new document instead of preserving the attributes copied from the old one. Clean Text for Mac eliminates all text formatting, preparing it for pasting. Moreover, the application performs other useful functions, such as removing empty lines, removing multiple spaces, removing tab characters etc. It's also very useful for printing out text without wasting ink and paper, as often happens when you print directly from a Web browser.

Main Features:
  • Fixes Paragraphs.
  • Removes returns within a paragraph and removes multiple empty lines between paragraphs.
  • Replaces multiple spaces with a single space and removes spaces at the beginning and at the end of a line.
  • Replaces each tab with a specified number of spaces.
  • Replaces each sequence of a specified number of spaces with a single tab.
  • Removes the quoting characters ">" at the beginning of lines.
  • Adds the quoting characters ">" at the beginning of lines.
  • Removes returns.
  • Replaces each return with a single space.
  • Converts to smart quotes.
  • Converts to straight quotes.
  • Replaces quotes with curly quotes.
  • Replaces curly quotes with straight quotes.
  • Text shifting right or left.
  • Adds a specified number of spaces before each line (delimited by line ending).
  • Sorts all the lines all the lines of the text (delimited by a line ending) using ascending order.
  • Capitalizes sentences. Capitalizes the first word of each sentence (delimited by "." and ellipsis "...").
  • Capitalizes words.
  • Sets characters to uppercase.
  • Sets characters to lowercase.
  • Random case.
  • Removes duplicate lines. Keeps only the first line between a group of equal lines.
  • Text encoding. Windows to Mac encoding.
  • Mac to Windows encoding. Converts MacOSRoman encoding to Windows Latin 1.
  • ROT-13. Rotates characters 13 positions in the alphabet.
  • Reverse text. Reverses characters.
  • Reverses each word.
  • Reverses words.
  • Converts three periods to ellipsis. Replaces each chunk of three periods with one single ellipsis (in Mac version only).
  • Converts ellipsis to three periods (in Mac version only).
  • Creates fi and fl ligatures. Creates professional publishing fi and fl ligatures for each "fi" and "fl" sequences in the text (in Mac version only).
  • Removes fi and fl ligatures (in Mac version only).
  • Encodes to Mac Line Endings (CR).
  • Encodes to Unix Line Endings (LF).
  • Encodes to Windows Line Endings (CR+LF). Converts all line breaks to "Carriage Return"+"Line Feed".

What’s new in version 8.4

Version 8.4:
  • Universal support for macOS Big Sur.

Clean Text for Mac

$19.95
In English
Version 8.4

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3.7

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Macbookpro
Macbookpro
Jun 9 2019
7.8
5.0
Jun 9 2019
5.0
Version: 7.8
Works great at taking copied text in the clipboard and stripping the formatting to place into new documents. FYI version 7,9 is out and works with Mojave.
Odysseus
Odysseus
Jun 5 2019
7.8
0.0
Jun 5 2019
0.0
Version: 7.8
Would anyone venture to compare Clean Text to Text Soap? At first glance, CT seems easier to use and appears to have a better UI.
ash-f
ash-f
Apr 30 2018
6.8.2
5.0
Apr 30 2018
5.0
Version: 6.8.2
all new v7.0 works perfectly on High Sierra!
jefferis
jefferis
Jan 19 2018
6.8.2
1.0
Jan 19 2018
1.0
Version: 6.8.2
6.8.2 crashes continually with an Out of Bounds Error. No longer useable. Downloaded a fresh copy with the same result
Morlo
Morlo
Feb 24 2016
6.8.2
2.0
Feb 24 2016
2.0
Version: 6.8.2
hefty price for an app that can't trim a certain number of characters from a bunch of lines.
Macbookpro
Macbookpro
Jun 9 2019
5.0
Jun 9 2019
5.0
Version: null
Ervins Strauhmanis
Ervins Strauhmanis
Oct 24 2018
5.0
Oct 24 2018
5.0
Version: null
ash-f
ash-f
Apr 30 2018
5.0
Apr 30 2018
5.0
Version: null
jefferis
jefferis
Jan 19 2018
1.0
Jan 19 2018
1.0
Version: null
Morlo
Morlo
Feb 24 2016
2.0
Feb 24 2016
2.0
Version: null
Freenergy
Freenergy
Jan 19 2016
4.5
Jan 19 2016
4.5
Version: null
Krocasta
Krocasta
Sep 8 2012
5.0
Sep 8 2012
5.0
Version: null
Sky7i
Sky7i
Mar 22 2012
2.5
Mar 22 2012
2.5
Version: null
Dittobox
Dittobox
Jul 14 2011
3.0
Jul 14 2011
3.0
Version: null
Mrlwebguy
Mrlwebguy
Jun 2 2011
3.5
Jun 2 2011
3.5
Version: null
EndoLab
EndoLab
Mar 12 2011
4.5
Mar 12 2011
4.5
Version: null
Cilalu
Cilalu
Dec 4 2010
3.5
Dec 4 2010
3.5
Version: null
Flashmech
Flashmech
Aug 5 2010
4.0
Aug 5 2010
4.0
Version: null
Guest
Guest
Mar 14 2005
3.8
Mar 14 2005
3.8
Version: null