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24 alternatives to Clean Text

Mac tool for eliminating all text formatting issues.

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Clean Text launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1
   Clean Text for iOS▲110

   An essential tool for removing text formatting on iOS 📱👌

   2016 · apimac.com · its alternatives →

2. 2
   Clean Text▲99

   Clean Text for iOS is a tool to reduce text cleanup time.

   2017 · apimac.com · its alternatives →

3. 3
   Text Cleaner▲77

   Text cleaning and formatting

   2022 · textcleaner.net · its alternatives →

4. 4
   Plain Clip▲135

   Remove the formatting from copied text.

   2016 · bluem.net · its alternatives →

5. 5T
   Tidy▲134

   Fix grammar in any Mac app with one shortcut

   Sep 2026 · greene-squares.github.io · its alternatives →

6. 6
   Cleartext▲305

   A text editor that allows only the 1,000 most common words

   2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

7. 7
   CleanBoard - Clean Clipboard▲67

   Automatically removes formatting from your MacOS clipboard

   2023 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

8. 8
   TextSoap▲9

   Automate your text cleanup on Mac

   2018 · textsoap.com · its alternatives →

9. 9
   Dirty Markup▲140

   Tidy up your HTML, CSS, and JavaScript code

   2015 · dirtymarkup.com · its alternatives →

10. 10
    Clean Todo▲78

    An efficient and elegant to-do app

    2017 · cleantodo.com · its alternatives →

11. 11
    Tidy▲98

    Spotlight returns nothing for words you know are in a scanned document. It is not a bug: a scan has no text layer, so there is nothing to index. How to check, and three ways to make those documents searchable on a Mac.

    Jul 2026 · tidymacapp.com · its alternatives →

12. 12
    Atom▲145

    A hackable text editor for the 21st Century

    2014 · github.blog · its alternatives →

13. 13
    Liquid Text 2.0▲157

    A better way to understand text - across multiple documents

    2016 · liquidtext.net · its alternatives →

14. 14
    Markoff▲94

    A free Markdown previewer for OS X

    2016 · thoughtbot.com · its alternatives →

15. 15
    Chalked for Mac▲89

    Your replies ready with your work's full context

    29d ago · usechalked.com · its alternatives →

16. 16
    Macaw▲90

    A simple code editor for Swift

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

17. 17
    Disk Diag▲67

    Clean your hard drive with just a few clicks

    2017 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

18. 18
    FoldingText▲83

    Plain text productivity for geeks

    2014 · foldingtext.com · its alternatives →

19. 19
    Pure Paste▲164

    Paste as plain text by default

    2022 · sindresorhus.com · its alternatives →

20. 20
    Glorium▲83

    A contextual filler text generator for Mac

    2015 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

21. 21
    Declutter▲91

    Cleans and organises your files in Mac desktop automatically

    2016 · macappstudio.com · its alternatives →

22. 22
    text-format▲3

    clean text,deal HTML,deal characters,uppercase,replace text

    2024 · text-format.com · its alternatives →

23. 23
    CotEditor▲102

    The free plain-text editor for OS X

    2014 · coteditor.com · its alternatives →

24. 24
    Revisions (Mac)▲60

    Browse, search, and inspect all your Dropbox changes

    2014 · its alternatives →

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