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PipeCleaner
Stop hand-fixing output. Paste-ready tables in one pass.
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?
About PipeCleaner on Product Hunt
“Stop hand-fixing output. Paste-ready tables in one pass.”
PipeCleaner was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 0 upvotes and 2 comments, placing #73 on the daily leaderboard. 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.
On the analytics side, PipeCleaner competes within Productivity, Writing and Developer Tools — topics that collectively have 1.2M followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how PipeCleaner performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted PipeCleaner?
PipeCleaner was hunted by Daniel DeMarco-Gauthier. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of PipeCleaner including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
Daniel DeMarco-Gauthier
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?