TextLab: Format,Edit & Convert
Cleaner, Case, JSON, Markdown
Free · In-App Purchases
Now works system-wide on Mac. Right-click any text in any app, choose Services, run any TextLab action. Plus 60+ text tools, regex, workflows.
TextLab is a fast text utility for Mac. Select text in any app, run a transformation, copy the result. No setup, no signup, no clutter.
Whether you write copy, ship code, edit content, or just clean up messy text from emails and documents, TextLab handles the boring parts so you do not have to.
Everything runs on your Mac. Your text never leaves your device.
WHAT IT DOES
• Convert case in one click. UPPERCASE, lowercase, Title Case, Sentence case, camelCase, PascalCase, snake_case, kebab-case. All the formats developers and writers actually use.
• Clean up text fast. Remove extra spaces, empty lines, line breaks, duplicate words, duplicate lines. Trim whitespace. Strip rich text formatting in one click.
• Count what matters. Characters, words, lines, sentences, paragraphs, reading time. Live as you type.
• Reverse, shuffle, sort. Reverse words, reverse letters, sort lines alphabetically or by length, shuffle randomly.
BUILT FOR MAC
• System-wide Services menu. Select text in Mail, Notes, Pages, Safari, Xcode, Slack, or any Mac app. Right-click, choose Services, pick a TextLab action. The transformed text replaces your selection or copies to clipboard. No app switching, no copy-paste dance.
• Native Mac app. Built with SwiftUI for Apple silicon and Intel. Fast launch, low memory, runs quietly in the background.
• Multi-window. Open as many editor windows as you need. Compare, transform, copy between them.
• Drag and drop. Drop a text file into the editor and edit it instantly. Drag transformed text out to any app or back to Finder.
• Dark mode and Light mode. Looks at home on macOS Sequoia and later.
PREMIUM TOOLS
• Workflows. Chain any number of actions into a single reusable transformation. Save it, name it, give it an icon, run it on any text in one click. Edit a workflow once, use it forever.
• JSON and data formatters. Beautify or minify JSON. Format XML, HTML, YAML. Convert CSV to JSON and back with custom delimiters. Strip HTML tags. Strip Markdown.
• Encoders and decoders. Base64, URL encoding, HTML entities, hex. Encode or decode in one click.
• Find and replace with regex. Full NSRegularExpression support for advanced search and replace.
• Extract anything. Pull emails, links, phone numbers, dates from any block of text. Or write your own regex pattern to extract whatever you need.
• Line tools. Sort lines, number lines (decimal or Roman), add prefix or suffix to every line, delete lines containing or not containing text, break lines after every word, sentence, or position.
• Cleanup pro. Remove diacritics. Remove invisible Unicode characters that break text from web pages. Remove emojis. Filter words by pattern.
• Markdown tools. Convert Markdown to HTML. Strip Markdown syntax to plain text. Clean Markdown formatting.
• Apple Intelligence. On Macs with M1 or newer running macOS 15 or later, run text through the on-device language model with your own prompt. Translate, rephrase, fix grammar, summarize. All on device.
• iCloud sync. Your workflows follow you across all your Macs and iOS devices.
PRICING
Free tier covers basic case conversion, cleanup, counters, and reverse. Genuinely useful with no time limits, no daily caps, no nags.
PRIVACY
TextLab does not collect any data. No analytics. No tracking. No accounts. All transformations run on your Mac. Your text is never sent over the internet.
WHO IT IS FOR
• Developers who format JSON, debug data, convert case styles, encode tokens, test regex patterns.
• Writers and journalists who clean up draft text, fix smart quotes, strip formatting, count words.
• Marketers and copywriters who format headlines, generate slugs, count characters for ad copy, prepare social posts.
• Students and researchers who clean up scraped text, format citations, transform data sets.
• Anyone tired of pasting text into ten different websites just to fix capitalization.
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Quick Transform, in every app
• Press Control Option Command T anywhere to open a search bar with every TextLab action. Pick one and the text on your clipboard is transformed and ready to paste, without leaving the app you are in. Actions with settings open right in the bar. Choose your own shortcut in Settings. Free for everyone.
Clean Clipboard in one click
• Copied something messy? One click in the menu bar removes formatting, invisible characters and link trackers from whatever you copied. Passwords copied from a password manager are never touched. Free for everyone.
Always ready in your menu bar
• TextLab now stays running after you close its window, with a menu bar icon for Quick Transform and Clean Clipboard. Turn on Open at Login and it is there from the moment you sign in. Prefer a tidy menu bar? Hide the icon in Settings.
Shortcuts on Mac
• TextLab actions now work in the Shortcuts app on Mac. Pick an action by name, choose its option from a list, or use dedicated actions for Find and Replace, Add Prefix and Suffix, Keep or Delete Matching Lines, Extract, Sort Lines, Transform Text with AI and Run Workflow.
New tools for developers
• JWT Decode shows a token's header, payload and expiry dates in plain words.
• JSON to YAML converts in both directions and keeps your key order.
• Escape String handles JSON, JavaScript, Swift, Java, C#, SQL, Shell, CSV and Regex.
• Regex Tester highlights every match as you type and lists each capture group.
Also in this update
• The Transform menu now lists every action, grouped by category.
• Remove Tracking Parameters strips trackers from every link in your text, free for everyone.
• Settings explains how to give TextLab Services their own keyboard shortcuts.
• Bug fixes and performance improvements.
The developer, Igor Bidenko, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
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Information
- Provider
- Igor Bidenko
- Size
- 6.5 MB
- Category
- Utilities
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- TextLab $9.99
- Copyright
- © Igor Bidenko
