PipeCleaner: Fix Text & Tables
Auto-clean Terminal Output
Only for Mac
$9.99
Mac
Ever tried to copy a table and paste it into a Word document, a spreadsheet, or GitHub? It's a disaster. The formatting breaks, the columns misalign, and you spend the next 10 minutes manually deleting box-drawing characters and fixing spaces.
Not anymore.
PipeCleaner is a lightning-fast native macOS utility that runs quietly in your menu bar and instantly translates messy terminal output into perfectly formatted text. It acts as the missing translation layer between your developer tools and your documentation.
HOW IT WORKS: Copy text from your terminal (Terminal, iTerm2, VS Code, etc.) and PipeCleaner captures it. The moment you switch to where you're pasting, its intelligent "Auto-Clean" engine formats the clipboard to suit that app — a real table in Word, spreadsheet cells in Excel, clean Markdown for GitHub — so it's ready the instant you press ⌘V. If it spots a messy ASCII table, a log prefix, or an invisible color code, it's gone.
You copy from the terminal. You paste into your document. It's that simple. Changed your mind? Undo any rewrite from the menu bar.
FEATURES:
- Per-App Formatting: PipeCleaner knows where you're pasting. Tables become native tables in Word and Pages, spreadsheet cells in Excel and Numbers, and clean Markdown everywhere else — automatically, and fully customizable per app.
- Smart Table Detection: Automatically recognizes terminal tables (Markdown, ASCII boxes, whitespace-aligned grids) and reformats them as perfect Markdown, CSV, JSON, or rich HTML so they paste perfectly into Word, Pages, spreadsheets, and GitHub.
- Structured Data In, Tables Out: Copy a JSON array or a spreadsheet selection and paste it as a perfectly formatted table — Markdown, a Word table, or cells, your choice.
- Auto-Clean Engine: Runs transparently in the background. Flip the switch once and never think about terminal formatting again.
- Terminal Garbage Collection: Automatically strips shell prompts ($, %), log timestamps, and invisible ANSI color codes that break your formatting.
- Prose Normalization: Removes stray newlines, normalizes whitespace, and strips decorative terminal dividers so CLI output reads like natural text.
- Hybrid CLI Support: Includes a built-in CLI tool (pipecleaner). Just pipe any command into it (git status | pipecleaner) to instantly format output directly from your shell.
- 100% Private, No AI: Everything runs on your Mac with plain, predictable rules. No network, no accounts — nothing ever leaves your computer.
- Native & Fast: Built from the ground up in SwiftUI. Lightweight, respectful of your battery, and beautiful in Dark Mode.
Stop fighting with your clipboard. Reclaim your focus and let PipeCleaner format your text for you.
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Minor bug fixes and performance improvements.
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Information
- Seller
- Daniel Gauthier
- Size
- 3.7 MB
- Category
- Developer Tools
- Compatibility
Requires macOS 15.0 or later.
- Mac
Requires macOS 15.0 or later.
- Mac
- Languages
English and 10 more
- English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese, Turkish
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © Daniel Gauthier 2026
