Clean up text in one click.
TextBuddy is a plain-text editor with a sidebar of one-shot fixes: change case, sort and dedupe lines, tame whitespace, straighten or curl punctuation, find & replace, and drop in filler text. Select a passage and any fix stays inside it.
macOS 13 Ventura or later · Apple Silicon & Intel · Free 7-day trial
Case, four ways
UPPERCASE, lowercase, Title Case, Sentence case, and tOGGLE cASE — each a single button, applied to the whole file or just the text you’ve highlighted.
Line surgery
Sort A→Z or Z→A, reverse, shuffle, remove duplicates, drop blank lines, join into one, or number every line.
Whitespace & punctuation
Trim trailing spaces, collapse runs of spaces or blank lines, convert tabs↔spaces — and swap straight quotes for smart ones (or back), fix ellipses, and normalize dashes.
Find & replace
Match case on or off, step through hits, or replace them all. Pop the panel out into its own floating window with multiline fields when you need room.
Wrap & generate
Wrap each word, sentence, or paragraph in an opening and closing tag — handy for <p> tags, Markdown, or quoting. Or drop in 1–9 words, sentences, or paragraphs of offline filler copy.
Queue & menu bar
Open several files into a queue and work through them, or summon a menu-bar scratch pad for a quick case-and-punctuation fix without leaving the app you’re in.
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Get TextBuddy
Try it free for 7 days. Buy it on its own or as part of the Surprisingly Useful bundle. Available direct or on the store. Requires macOS 13 or later.
Support
Questions or bug reports? Email ben.dansby@gmail.com and you’ll get a reply, usually within a day or two.
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