With the upcoming release of Clean Text 26, scheduled for December 2026, this is a great moment to take a closer look at the most interesting new features coming in this version. Clean Text keeps evolving, and this update brings more powerful tools, faster workflows, and smarter text management across the board.
Integration with artificial intelligence
Clean Text 26 introduces a new integration with artificial intelligence, bringing professional-level text processing directly to your Mac. All AI features run entirely on device, ensuring privacy and taking full advantage of your Mac’s performance.
Alongside the existing AI functionality from previous versions, the ability to recognize entities in text such as people, places, and organizations, this update adds a set of new AI editing actions designed for specific purposes:
• Fix Grammar: automatically corrects grammar, spelling, and punctuation
• Simplify Text: rewrites complex text in a clearer form
• Get Summary: generates a concise summary
• Bullet List: transforms text into a bulleted list
• Numbered List: converts text into a numbered list
• Formal Tone: rewrites text in a more professional style
• Friendly Tone: rewrites text in a warmer, more approachable style
• Add Call to Action: adds a closing line that invites action
• Persuasive Style: strengthens the tone to make it more convincing
• Make It a Post: formats text as a short social post
• Improve Flow: restructures sentences for a smoother reading experience
These AI actions can be included in custom tasks, allowing you to create complex workflows that run with a single click.
A new AI assistant is also available. It understands natural-language requests and transforms text according to your instructions. Examples of prompts include:
• “Make it more formal”
• “Summarize in 3 points”
• “Translate to Spanish”
• “Rewrite in a friendly tone”
• “Create a social post with hashtags”
• “Improve clarity and fix grammar”
• “Make the text more persuasive”
The assistant includes built-in prompts to get you started quickly and remembers your recent prompts in the history.
All AI processing takes place fully on device. No data is ever sent to external servers, so your text stays private and under your control. AI features require macOS 26.0 or later and Apple Intelligence enabled in System Settings on compatible devices. Note: AI transformations are designed to provide fast and accurate results, but reviewing the final text is always recommended.
Other improvements and enhancements
Workflow and productivity
• My Tasks: create and manage custom tasks by combining multiple actions in sequence, including AI transformations. Run complex pipelines with a single click. Share, import, and export tasks in JSON format.
• Favorites Bar: add your most used actions for instant access and customize the bar to suit your workflow.
• Smart History: quickly access recently copied text, searches, regex replacements, and AI prompts.
• New menu bar icon: transform clipboard text without opening the app, ideal for quick operations.
Text cleaning and transformation
• The Share button now automatically handles selection or full text.
• Clearer localized help tags across the interface.
• Show or hide spaces to make review easier.
• “Remove Spaces” now recognizes all Unicode spaces.
• “Remove Line Breaks” supports all types of line breaks and replaces them with spaces.
• “Remove Spaces and Line Breaks” is now more consistent and accurate.
• “Remove Empty Lines” now removes lines containing only spaces or tabs.
• Improved removal of leading and trailing empty lines.
• “Remove Duplicate Lines” keeps only one empty line between blocks.
• Trimming removes spaces at the start and end of each line.
• “Spaces to Tabs” now converts spaces to tabs more predictably.
• Better handling of line breaks for functions that replace them with spaces, commas, semicolons, or periods.
• “One Return to Two” and “Two Returns to One” now recognize all return types.
Quotation management
• “Curly Quotes” more accurately recognizes quotes, apostrophes, and abbreviations.
• “Convert to Angle Quotes” correctly identifies quotations and preserves apostrophes.
• Improved support for Asian quotes 「…」 and 『…』.
• Added support for French quotes « … » with non-breaking spaces.
• More reliable conversion between single and double quotes with better apostrophe protection.
Case changes and text analysis
• New sentence count feature.
• Unicode Cleaner: removes hidden characters and cleans complex text.
• Change Case now supports an ignore list.
• Fix Spaces preserves acronyms, numbers, and non-standard spacing more reliably.
• Fix Line Breaks merges broken lines while keeping paragraphs and lists intact.
• Multilingual professional title casing based on Apple’s linguistic intelligence.
• Lowercase and Random Case now respect the ignore list.
Encoding and formatting
• “Markdown to Text” removes Markdown formatting while preserving content.
• Added “Base64 Encode” and “Base64 Decode.”
• Added “Markdown Escape” and “Markdown Unescape.”
• Added “Escape JSON” and “Unescape JSON.”
• URL encoding split into “Friendly URL Encode,” “Full Percent Encode,” and “URL Decode.”
• Added “HTML Entity Encode” and “HTML Entity Decode.”
Editor and navigation
• “Add Line Numbers” now uses a more readable typographic format.
• “Break Long Lines” removes unnecessary spaces before line breaks.
• The smart “Clean” function removes duplicate lines and normalizes hidden Unicode characters.
• Circular search navigation with no interruptions.
• Quick text size adjustments with Command+ and Command−.
Clean Text 26 will also ship with expanded language support. In addition to English and Italian, the app will be available in several major European and international languages including German, French, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, and Polish, making it more accessible for users who work with text around the world.
A newly expanded section in the Clean Text 26 User Guide explains how AI-generated text behaves.
Clean Text 26 will be released in December, and if you purchase the current version today, you’ll receive the license code for the new version automatically.
We can’t wait for you to experience the new Clean Text 26 — thanks for following our journey and for your continued support.
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