KlarText

Plain text. Nothing else.

Only for Mac

$8.99

Mac

A native MacOS plain text editor that gets out of the way. Paste and Reflow cleans up hard-wrapped text from PDFs, emails, and terminals automatically. Klar is German for clear. Klartext reden means speaking plainly. Plain text is the only format that survived. WordPerfect files from 1985 are unreadable. Word documents from the 1990s are corrupted or stranded in formats nobody supports anymore. A .txt file written fifty years ago opens today, without conversion, without a subscription, without the original software. It will open fifty years from now. KlarText is built on that premise. KlarText follows one rule: if a feature is not essential to writing and editing text, it does not belong here. No syntax highlighting. No plugins. No AI. No distractions. Just text. SIGNATURE FEATURES Paste and Reflow (Cmd+Shift+V) Paste text from PDFs, emails, terminals, or the web. Hard-wrapped lines are rejoined into clean, flowing prose — while lists, code blocks, and shell sessions are left intact. Join List as Prose Turn a bullet or numbered list into a single flowing paragraph in one step. Each item becomes a sentence: capitalised, punctuated, ready. Focus Mode (Cmd+Opt+F) Wide margins, hidden sidebar. Full screen combinable. EVERYTHING ELSE · Multi-document sidebar with inline rename · Regex find & replace via the standard macOS Find bar · Line numbers · Automatic encoding detection (UTF-8, UTF-16, Latin-1, Mac Roman) · Line ending conversion (LF / CRLF / CR) · Keyboard text navigation. Also Go to Line, Delete Line, Block indent / outdent · System, light, and dark themes · Native macOS app — not Electron WHO IT’S FOR Anyone who seeks clarity. PRIVACY & EULA https://luke0004.github.io/klartext-support/PRIVACY https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

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    Information

    • Seller
      • Lukas Spieker
    • Size
      • 5.2 MB
    • Category
      • Productivity
    • Compatibility
      Requires macOS 15.0 or later.
      • Mac
        Requires macOS 15.0 or later.
    • Age Rating
      4+
    • Copyright
      • © 2026 Lukas Spieker
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    • Supports

    • Family Sharing

      Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.

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