RawText for iOS – Free Plain Text Editor

RawText is a dedicated plain text editor for iPhone and iPad. This ad-free app removes rich-text formatting, fonts, colors, invisible control characters and background markup so that copied content becomes clean, predictable and ready to use in email, ticket systems, CMS backends, development tools or messaging apps.

Whenever text is pasted into RawText from a browser, document, chat or AI tool, the app converts it into uniform plain text. Styling, HTML fragments and hidden metadata are stripped away so that you can copy the result back into other applications without layout issues, broken line breaks or inconsistent typography.

RawText focuses entirely on text handling on iOS and iPadOS: typing, pasting, copying, cleaning and clearing. There is deliberately no document system, no file browser and no export logic. The interface stays minimal so that the app can be used as a fast, reliable “paste as plain text” utility for everyday work.

Why RawText exists

Modern apps embed a large amount of hidden formatting into copied text: font families, inline CSS, spacing rules, HTML fragments, zero-width characters and bidirectional marks. When this text is pasted into email clients, CRM systems or ticket tools, the result is often broken layouts, unexpected bold elements, strange color changes or validation errors in web forms.

RawText creates a dedicated space where this copied content is turned into plain text immediately. It neutralizes rich-text elements, normalizes whitespace and keeps only the characters that are actually needed. The cleaned result can then be copied back into other apps as a reliable building block for communication, documentation, coding or professional correspondence.

Designed for everyday use cases

RawText is built around practical text workflows that occur every day on mobile devices:

Purify: Unicode-aware cleaning

In addition to removing visible formatting, RawText includes an optional cleaning step called Purify for dealing with invisible Unicode control characters. These characters are often injected by office software, PDF generators, chat applications or AI systems. They are not visible on screen, but they can break line wrapping, search and replace operations, text processing pipelines or data imports.

When Purify is activated, RawText removes or normalizes a carefully selected set of characters such as zero-width joiners, soft hyphens, bidirectional control marks and several specialized space characters. Visible punctuation, quotation marks and letters remain unchanged so that the meaning of the text is preserved.

RawText keeps full Unicode support. The app does not convert text to ASCII, and scripts such as Arabic, Hebrew, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Devanagari and Cyrillic remain intact. Only those invisible control characters that are known to cause practical problems are targeted, allowing the text to be processed safely by other tools while preserving its language and content.

The Purify settings screen lists each supported control character type with a short explanation. Every rule can be enabled or disabled individually, for example normalizing non-breaking spaces to standard spaces or removing specific variation selectors. This makes RawText useful both for everyday users and for technical workflows that require precise control over Unicode content.

A minimal interface built for focus

RawText presents a single editing surface with neutral colors and monospaced typography. When the app opens, the keyboard is active and the cursor is ready at the end of the existing text or at the beginning if the field is empty. Light and dark modes are supported via the system appearance, keeping the workspace comfortable in different environments.

The toolbar at the top of the editor offers five focused actions:

• Paste – insert the current clipboard as plain text
• Copy all – copy the entire editor content to the clipboard
• Clear – remove all content after a confirmation prompt
• Purify – run the Unicode cleaning step on the current text
• Info – open a concise help page explaining the workflow and Purify behaviour

By concentrating on these core actions and avoiding additional menus or formatting controls, RawText stays fast, predictable and easy to operate with one hand, an external keyboard or in split-screen multitasking on iPad.

Consistency across languages

RawText is localized into all languages supported on the App Store listing. Interface labels, dialogs and help texts use native terminology so that the app feels familiar on devices configured in English, German and many other languages. Layout and typography adapt to text expansion automatically, which keeps the interface visually balanced across all supported locales and writing systems.

Built for mobile productivity

RawText is designed for users who regularly move text between applications and need a dependable plain text editor on iOS and iPadOS. Mobile professionals, students, writers, support staff and developers often work with copied content that behaves unpredictably. RawText provides a neutral editing buffer that filters away everything unnecessary so that only the actual characters remain.

Because the app does not maintain a document list or external storage, it launches quickly and stays responsive even on older devices. Text remains available as long as the user keeps it in the editor and is only removed when the Clear action is confirmed. This makes RawText ideal as a temporary staging area for snippets, drafts and cleaned-up text blocks.

Who uses RawText

RawText is useful for anyone who needs to prepare text without formatting irregularities, including:

• Professionals handling email or ticket communication who want neutral, readable replies
• Developers and administrators working with code snippets, configuration files or log entries
• Students preparing text for academic submissions or plagiarism checks
• Writers collecting quotes, notes or source material from different platforms
• Users cleaning text extracted from PDFs, scanned documents, websites or chat apps
• Anyone who prefers plain, robust text that behaves consistently across applications

By separating copying, cleaning and reusing text into a single focused step, RawText reduces friction and avoids hard-to-diagnose formatting problems in everyday workflows.

Privacy by design

RawText processes all content locally on the device. No text is sent to external servers, no background analytics are embedded in the editor and no cloud account is required. The app simply uses the system clipboard and the editor surface as its working area. Content remains on the device until the user chooses to replace it, copy it elsewhere or clear it.

Download RawText

RawText offers a straightforward way to paste, clean and copy plain text on iPhone and iPad while keeping full Unicode support and strong privacy. The app is ideal as a small utility that sits between browsers, email clients, AI tools and productivity apps.

Download RawText for free on the App Store to remove unwanted formatting from your clipboard, clean up Unicode control characters and keep your mobile text workflows consistent.