Clean Text is an essential tool for webmasters, graphic designers, developers and magazine editors to reduce text cleanup and editing time, and it is a very convenient tool for all Mac users that needs to cleanup and editing text from emails, documents, or other material.
Solve text problems with a couple of clicks
Clean Text quickly performs many essential text processing functions such as removing empty lines, removing unwanted spaces, converting tab characters, smart quotes, and more. In addition to this, smart tools let you solve with a single click, the most common cleaning problems of text found in email messages, documents and web pages.
Type on Mac and find the text on iOS
With Clean Text, you can write text on Mac and then find it on any iOS device. Thanks to iCloud, you will find in the device that you just picked up, exactly the text that you have just typed on Mac. Just use the iCloud menu to send or receive the text via iCloud. Clean Text for iOS requires a separate purchase.
Live search
While you type in the search box all occurrences within the text will be highlighted to give you a complete picture, then with the Select Next and Select Previous buttons you can gradually select instances to edit or change them. Also Ignore Case, Contains, Starts With and Full Word, act immediately on the highlighted text and will allow you to do the replacements with millimeter accuracy.
Natural Language Processing
Clean Text takes advantage of Apple's Core ML, a new foundational machine learning framework to deeply understand text. The new Entities functionality of the app uses machine learning and natural language processing (NLP) to instantly identify and select personal names, place names and organization names mentioned in the text.
Automate repetitive tasks
Easily create automated tasks that perform a series of processing actions and replacements in the text. Creating tasks is within everyone's reach, and if you're an advanced user, you can also include Regular Expressions patterns in your tasks.
Support for the latest macOS technologies
Clean Text supports the latest macOS technologies, such as: iCloud to access the same text from any Mac and iOS device; Touch Bar for quickly enter Emoji; Sharing with Mail, Messages, Note, Reminder, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin; document advanced tabbed browsing and infinite undoes and redoes functionality. The app is written in Swift, the new fast and powerful Apple's coding language.
The main text processing features of Clean Text are:
• Smart Clean
• Clean and Compact.
• Clean Clipboard content.
• Fix spaces and line breaks, join paragraphs.
• Strip email quoting.
• Replace tabs with spaces, spaces with tabs, spaces with returns and returns with spaces.
• Convert quotation marks: curved, straight, angle, German and Chinese quotes.
• Convert from single to double and from double to single quotes.
• Change case.
• Remove empty lines, spaces, returns, duplicate words and duplicate lines.
• Convert HTML to plain text and URL encoding.
• Convert emoji and symbols to their description.
• Increase and decrease text indent.
• Add and remove line numbers and quote Prefix.
• Sort lines and order words.
• Extract Links, Email Addresses, Phone numbers and Unique Words.
• Find and Replace with live highlighting of matches.
• Regular Expression search and substitution.
• Hard wrap words.
• Calculate estimated reading time
• Automatically select personal, place and organization names.
• New "Copy Highlighted" menu item. A functionality that allows you to copy to the clipboard all the text highlighted by a search (useful in RegEx searches).
• Now the "Copy All", "Paste Over" and "Clear All" features have their corresponding menu items in the menu bar.
• Various code optimizations