Remove special characters, smart quotes, emojis, accents and invisible spaces from any text. Instant, free, nothing to install.
An email, a PDF, a web page, anything with smart quotes, emojis or weird spaces in it.
Each saved profile gets its own global shortcut: one for clean paste, one for slugs, one for filenames.
Cleaned in place and pasted. On locked-down work PCs it can type the result instead of touching the clipboard.
Slugs for your CMS, filename-safe cleanup, plain ASCII for the terminal: build your own or grab one from the built-in library, and give each one its own global shortcut. Export profiles to share with your team, or install one with a shareable link.
Precise find→replace rules with a searchable catalogue of every dash, quote and invisible space, by Unicode name.
Starts with Windows, sits quietly in the system tray, shows a small "Replaced 12 characters" toast after each clean.
Insert profiles skip the clipboard entirely: press a hotkey and it types a fresh GUID, today's date, or a project ID like PRJ-20260709-c3w9 straight at the cursor.
A hotkey opens a fuzzy-search palette for every profile and action. Browse the built-in library of ready-made profiles (cleaners, slugs, generators, pattern rules) and add any of them in one click.
Regex find→replace with capture groups ($1, $2…) for one-off reformatting, plus tokens like {guid} and {yyyy}-{MM}-{dd} that generate a fresh value on every match: mask emails, retag TODOs, or rewrite dates in bulk. Try it in the "Pattern rules" section above.
Not sure how to set up the rules yourself? Let your favourite AI assistant do it. Describe what you want cleaned in plain words and it assembles the profile, then hands it back as a one-click install. Nothing installs until you confirm it in the app.
Easiest way: paste this to any AI that supports connectors and it sets itself up.
Please connect to this MCP server so you can build text-cleaning profiles for me, then walk me through any steps: https://mcp.removespecialcharacters.app/mcp
Paste your text into the box on this page and pick a preset, or turn on individual toggles for smart quotes, emojis, accents and punctuation, and the cleaned result appears instantly. Copy it, or export your setup as a profile for the Windows app.
Anything outside plain ASCII letters, digits and basic punctuation: smart quotes and dashes, emoji, accented letters (café → cafe), non-breaking and other invisible spaces, and symbols like © or ™. You can target each category separately or clean everything at once.
Yes. Same cleaning engine, same presets, same rule model, including regex pattern rules and generator tokens. Export the setup you build here and import it into the app as a profile. The app additionally adds global hotkeys, an Insert mode for typing generated snippets, a browsable profile library, a command palette, saved profiles, tray integration and the full character catalogue.
Yes. The Windows app has Insert profiles that type a generated snippet (a GUID, today's date, a timestamp, a random project ID) directly at the cursor on their own hotkey, without touching the clipboard. Pattern rules can mix regex capture groups with the same generator tokens, so one rule can find text and stamp a fresh value onto every match. Try it in the "Pattern rules (regex)" section of the tool above.
Press the palette hotkey to fuzzy-search every profile and action instead of digging through the tray menu. The profile library is a built-in catalogue of ready-made profiles (cleaners, slugs, generators, pattern rules) you can add to your own list in one click and then customise.
No. This page cleans your text entirely in your browser, and the Windows app cleans it entirely on your PC. There is no server, no logging, no account.
Yes. There's a "type the result instead of pasting" mode that never touches the clipboard, so corporate clipboard monitors stay quiet. Company keys activate offline.
No. €3.39 once for yourself, or €3 per seat for your company. You pay one time and the license is perpetual.
The app is fully usable without paying. Every cleaning feature works. Buying once unlocks unlimited profiles and permanently removes the occasional upgrade reminder.
Buy seats through Lemon Squeezy, get one license key by email, and activate it in the app on each machine, offline, no Microsoft account needed. Works with the Store, MSI and standalone builds.
Remove Special Characters