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TextLab: Format,Edit & Convert

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TextLab: Format,Edit & Convert

by Igor Bidenko

5.0 (1) v5.1 11 MB Universal 4+

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Description

TextLab is a fast text utility for iPhone and iPad. Paste any text, pick a transformation, copy the result. No setup, no signup, no clutter.
Whether you write copy, ship code, edit content, or just clean up messy text from emails and documents, TextLab handles the boring parts so you do not have to.
Everything runs on your device. Your text never leaves your iPhone.

WHAT IT DOES
• Convert case in one tap. UPPERCASE, lowercase, Title Case, Sentence case, camelCase, PascalCase, snake_case, kebab-case. All the formats developers and writers actually use.
• Clean up text fast. Remove extra spaces, empty lines, line breaks, duplicate words, duplicate lines. Trim whitespace. Strip rich text formatting in one tap.
• Count what matters. Characters, words, lines, sentences, paragraphs, reading time. Live as you type.
• Reverse, shuffle, sort. Reverse words, reverse letters, sort lines alphabetically or by length, shuffle randomly.

PREMIUM TOOLS
• Workflows. Chain any number of actions into a single reusable transformation. Save it, name it, give it an icon, run it on any text in one tap. Edit a workflow once, use it forever.
• JSON and data formatters. Beautify or minify JSON. Format XML, HTML, YAML. Convert CSV to JSON and back with custom delimiters. Strip HTML tags. Strip Markdown.
• Encoders and decoders. Base64, URL encoding, HTML entities, hex. Encode or decode in one tap.
• Find and replace with regex. Full NSRegularExpression support for advanced search and replace.
• Extract anything. Pull emails, links, phone numbers, dates from any block of text. Or write your own regex pattern to extract whatever you need.
• Line tools. Sort lines, number lines (decimal or Roman), add prefix or suffix to every line, delete lines containing or not containing text, break lines after every word, sentence, or position.
• Cleanup pro. Remove diacritics. Remove invisible Unicode characters that break text from web pages. Remove emojis. Filter words by pattern.
• Markdown tools. Convert Markdown to HTML. Strip Markdown syntax to plain text. Clean Markdown formatting.
• Apple Intelligence. On supported devices running iOS 26, run text through the on-device language model with your own prompt. Translate, rephrase, fix grammar, summarize. All on device.
• Shortcuts integration. Every TextLab action and every workflow you create works as a Shortcuts action. Build automations, run them with a tap, a Siri command, or a Home Screen widget.
• Share extension. Select text in any app, hit Share, run any TextLab action without leaving the app you are in.
• iCloud sync. Your workflows follow you across iPhone and iPad.

PRICING
Free tier covers basic case conversion, cleanup, counters, and reverse. Genuinely useful with no time limits, no daily caps, no nags.

PRIVACY
TextLab does not collect any data. No analytics. No tracking. No accounts. All transformations run on your device. Your text is never sent over the internet. iCloud sync uses your private iCloud database, encrypted by Apple.


WHO IT IS FOR
• Developers who format JSON, debug data, convert case styles, encode tokens, test regex patterns.
• Writers and journalists who clean up draft text, fix smart quotes, strip formatting, count words.
• Marketers and copywriters who format headlines, generate slugs, count characters for ad copy, prepare social posts.
• Students and researchers who clean up scraped text, format citations, transform data sets.
• Anyone tired of pasting text into ten different websites just to fix capitalization.

Terms: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

What's new (v5.1)

iCloud Sync
• Your workflows now follow you. Build one on your iPhone and it iswaiting on your iPad and your Mac, kept current in the background. Your favorite actions, hidden actions, and editor preferences come along too.
• Settings shows you where things stand: when your library last synced, and a plain explanation if something needs attention. You stay in control with a switch to turn syncing off, and an option to remove your synced workflows from iCloud.
• Your text stays private. Every transformation runs on your device and is never uploaded.

Sharper Text Tools
• We went back through the transformation library and fixed the cases that were giving you the wrong answer without saying so:
• Title Case keeps your line breaks instead of collapsing the text onto one line.
• Remove Emojis now catches the ones it used to walk past, including hearts, flags, keycaps, and skin tones.
• Sentence case stops capitalizing in the middle of decimals like 2.5.
• Markdown to HTML converts headings anywhere in the document and turns bullet points into real lists.
• CSV to JSON keeps your columns in their original order and no longer drops a column when two share a name.
• JSON to CSV covers every key across all of your objects, tells true apart from 1, and quotes headers that contain commas.
• Hex and Base64 decoding report bad input instead of handing back nothing.
• JSON formatting accepts a single value, not only objects and arrays.
• Find and Replace no longer locks up on a complicated regular expression.

Share Sheet and Shortcuts
• The share extension now finds text anywhere in what you share, instead of looking only at the first item.
• Shortcuts actions that need settings the Shortcuts app cannot pass now tell you so, rather than returning your text untouched and calling it a success.
• Run Workflow reports the step that failed instead of quietly handing back partial work.

Plus a long list of smaller fixes across the editor, workflows, and settings.