Purifai
App-aware copy/paste that removes unsupported formatting
265 followers
App-aware copy/paste that removes unsupported formatting
265 followers
Text copied from AI tools or the web often pastes with fonts and headings you'd never use yourself, especially in email or chat. It immediately looks pasted. Paste text-only fixes the mess, but also removes bold text, lists, and structure, forcing you to rebuild everything by hand. Purifai cleans the text so it fits naturally in the app you're pasting into. It removes weird formatting while keeping paragraphs, lists, and spacing intact. Lightweight App (11MB). Fully offline. No tracking.
The "ChatGPT formatting shame" is real! I always hated how standard pasting brings those weird backgrounds, but Paste as Plain Text nukes my bullet points. This is the perfect middle ground—clean enough to pass as human, structured enough to be useful.
Purifai
@daiphoon Thank you so much, glad you like it! :)
Congratulations on the launch, an excellent idea and a problem that we undoubtedly have many when working with text from different sources. The question specifically is whether you plan to release it for Windows as well.
Purifai
Hey Product Hunt 👋
I built Purifai because I use ChatGPT for almost every email I write, but I hate that it never looks "native" when I paste it in. The headings are huge (who even uses headings in a normal email anyway?) and the fonts never match. There is usually that weird, massive space between paragraphs that doesn't feel like a normal line-break. It’s just obvious it was copied from an AI service.
For a while, I used "Paste as Plain Text," but that's almost worse. It strips the fonts, but it also nukes all the bolding, bullet points, and quotes. I'd end up spending 5 minutes manually re-formatting the whole thing just to make the email readable. I even caught myself pasting text into my browser’s URL bar just to strip the junk, which felt like a pretty pathetic workaround lol.
Purifai is my fix for this. It acts as a middleman that cleans the "junk" while keeping your structure intact based on where you're pasting it. For example, it’ll intelligently turn those awkward AI headings into bold text for an email, but keep them as proper headers if you're pasting into Slack or Teams.
Native Mac App: Only 11MB (no Electron bloat 🎉).
Privacy First: Works 100% offline with no tracking.
Simple Pricing: One-time $9.99, no subscriptions or accounts.
This is my first ever Mac app launch, and I built it mostly to save my own sanity. I’m charging a flat one-time fee because I want to stay independent and keep building focused, clean Mac apps in the future.
Like magic! Super simple and useful at the same time. Quick win! Wish you all the best here!!
Purifai
@german_merlo1 Thank you so much!!! Happy you like it :)
This is such a real pain point.
Copy-pasting from AI or the web and then spending minutes fixing spacing, fonts, and weird headings is way more common than people admit.
I really like the idea of cleaning formatting without destroying structure — especially the app-aware part. Turning AI-style headings into something that actually looks normal in email or Slack feels like a small detail that saves a lot of daily friction.
Also appreciate the offline-first + one-time pricing. Congrats on your first Mac app launch.