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TidyText

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TidyText is a fast, modern Windows application designed to clean, format, and enhance your plain text. Whether you need to fix messy spacing, normalize casing, or rewrite content using an AI Assistant, TidyText provides a responsive, user-friendly experience.

Key Features

✨ AI Assistant

Enhance your writing with powerful AI models.

  • Cloud & Local Support: Connect to Anthropic, DeepSeek, Gemini, or OpenAI, or run completely local, privacy-first models using Ollama or LocalLM.
  • Built-in Templates: Instantly rewrite, summarize, or reformat text using predefined prompts.
  • Real-time Suggestions: See AI modifications seamlessly stream into your editor as they generate.
  • Persistent History: Easily refer back to your previous interactions with the assistant.

🧹 Text Cleanup & Formatting

  • Trim Whitespace: Remove stray spaces at the start and end of lines.
  • Collapse Blank Lines: Eliminate excessive empty lines between paragraphs for a cleaner look.
  • Fix Punctuation Spacing: Automatically normalize spaces around commas, periods, colons, quotes, and parentheses.
  • Smart Case Conversion: Intelligently convert text to Sentence case, Title Case, UPPERCASE, or lowercase.

📊 Advanced Statistics & Readability

  • Live Metrics: Instantly view word, character, sentence, paragraph, and line counts.
  • Readability Scores: Analyzes your writing using the LIX readability formula to gauge text complexity.
  • Markdown Aware: Accurately analyzes text while properly handling Markdown code blocks and formatting.

🎨 Modern Experience

  • Refined UI: Enjoy a sleek interface with smooth animations, scalable typography, and robust light/dark theme support.
  • Undo & Redo: Full keyboard shortcut support to quickly revert or reapply changes.

Privacy First

TidyText respects your privacy. All traditional text cleaning and formatting tools operate 100% offline. When using the AI Assistant, you have the freedom to choose your provider—including offline, local-only options like Ollama—ensuring your sensitive data never has to leave your machine.

Installation

Grab the latest build from the repository’s Releases page, then run the installer.

Usage

  1. Paste your raw text into the TidyText editor.
  2. Clean: Apply standard operations (like fixing spacing or changing case) from the toolkit.
  3. Enhance: Open the AI Assistant to rewrite, refine, or summarize sections of your text.
  4. Copy the finalized text to your clipboard to use anywhere.