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PipeCleaner
Stop hand-fixing output. Paste-ready tables in one pass.
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Stop hand-fixing output. Paste-ready tables in one pass.
5 followers
Every "clean up this text" tool is a website you paste sensitive data into that is manual, token-burning, and privacy-leaking. PipeCleaner is a Mac app that does it locally, zero network connections. Copy a messy terminal table or log, get clean Markdown, CSV, Excel, or Word. Flip on Auto-Clean and terminal copies are fixed the instant you hit ⌘C. Plus a CLI, Services menu & Shortcuts. Built because I got tired of hand-fixing every table I pasted into Teams & GitHub.
Claude can create the table below in about three seconds:
┌────────┬───────────────┬────────────────────────────────────┬─────────────┐
│ Fruit │ Color │ Description │ Average │
│ │ │ │ Weight │
├────────┼───────────────┼────────────────────────────────────┼─────────────┤
│ Apple │ Red, green, │ Crisp, sweet to tart flesh with │ 180g (6 oz) │
│ │ yellow │ thin edible skin │ │
├────────┼───────────────┼────────────────────────────────────┼─────────────┤
│ Orange │ Orange │ Juicy, segmented citrus with thick │ 130g (4.5 │
│ │ │ peel │ oz) │
├────────┼───────────────┼────────────────────────────────────┼─────────────┤
│ Banana │ Yellow │ Soft, creamy flesh with easy-peel │ 120g (4 oz) │
│ │ │ skin │ │
└────────┴───────────────┴────────────────────────────────────┴─────────────┘
Teams, GitHub, Excel, Pages, this post, five different dialects, and not one of them speaks the same. The AI made the table in seconds; I spent the next ten minutes being a human translator or I waste real tokens on having it convert to a markdown doc and even more to create a word document.
So I built PipeCleaner. Paste the box-drawing mess once, pick where it's going, copy it back out in that app's language. Flip on Auto-Clean and it happens the instant you ⌘C.
Every app wants your table a different way. PipeCleaner speaks all of them.
What are you pasting into these days?
The local-first approach is exactly what I want for working with messy log dumps. One thing that would make this a daily driver for me is the ability to save custom cleaning rules or presets, so I can define how PipeCleaner handles my specific log formats without re-tweaking options every time.
Finally a clean-up tool that doesn't send my logs off to some stranger's API, and the Auto-Clean on copy actually works as advertised on my terminal dumps.