Textile – A desktop app for weaving together bits of text
Hi all, I'm excited to show off Textile, a desktop app I recently built. Textile can combine bits of text using various inputs, such as commands on your computer, the contents of your clipboard, and hard-coded strings that you provide. It lets you carefully build up and modify a dynamic string, step by step, until it's exactly how you need it. The saved steps can then be executed on demand, with the click of a button or using a keyboard shortcut. I built Textile because I was often constructing complicated, dynamic URLs from various sources that all existed on my computer. I got tired of…
Textile – A desktop app for weaving together bits of text launched on June 1, 2026 with 36 votes, #701 of 22,647 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches.
In plain words
Textile is a desktop application that combines text from multiple sources—including command outputs, clipboard contents, and user-provided strings—into dynamic results. Users build text step-by-step, refining it until it meets their needs, then save and execute these sequences with a button click or keyboard shortcut. The app is designed for anyone who frequently constructs complex strings like URLs from scattered sources on their computer, eliminating the need to manually switch between applications and paste fragments together.
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From the sources
A desktop app for repeatedly weaving together bits of text
Textile helps you assemble and manipulate text with precision. It can even run commands and put results on your clipboard. No more switching between apps to copy bits of text manually. You can assign keyboard shortcuts to your textiles, making them quick and easy to run. Textile even supports shortcuts with multiple sequences. Textiles are stored in simple text files, right on your computer. They’re easy to back up, and nobody else can access them, not even us. Textile can use text you provide, read from your clipboard, and run commands on your computer that generate text. If you’ve got the text, Textile can use it. Textile allows you to append, prepend, and replace text to your heart’s…from gettextile.app
In the maker’s words, at launch
Hi all, I'm excited to show off Textile, a desktop app I recently built. Textile can combine bits of text using various inputs, such as commands on your computer, the contents of your clipboard, and hard-coded strings that you provide. It lets you carefully build up and modify a dynamic string, step by step, until…
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