1. Your text stays in your browser
ClearCopy reads the text you paste or select from a small text file. Its cleanup logic runs in your browser. It does not send your draft to a text-processing server or require an AI API key. The site host may still receive ordinary page requests and technical logs; see our privacy policy.
2. Start with the two low-risk options
Remove invisible spaces removes the zero-width space (U+200B), byte-order mark / zero-width no-break space (U+FEFF), and word joiner (U+2060). Normalize special spacing converts several unusual spacing characters into ordinary spaces. These changes can make copied paragraphs easier to reuse in documents and emails.
We deliberately preserve zero-width joiner (U+200D) and zero-width non-joiner (U+200C), because they can be meaningful in certain languages and emoji sequences.
3. Review optional cleanup
You can choose to remove certain familiar assistant introductions and sign-offs, tidy simple Markdown heading and bold markers, or strip direction-control characters and soft hyphens. Those steps are off by default because they can alter legitimate content. Always compare the two text panels.
4. See the report, then copy or download
The change report lists the kind and count of characters or prose lines modified. You can show the original at any time. ClearCopy produces a plain-text download, so there are no hidden formatting layers.
What the tool does not do
It does not prove human authorship, bypass every detector, or reliably remove statistical text watermarks. It does not edit images, PDFs, or Word file metadata in this first version. It is not a plagiarism checker or an AI-writing detector.
To understand why, read our explanation of text watermarks.