# NeatPaste: Strip AI Markdown — Clean asterisks and em dashes

> Clean asterisks and em dashes (iPhone/iPad app by KENTA OSAWA.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/neatpaste-strip-ai-markdown/id6777883176 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [KENTA OSAWA](https://appshunter.io/developer/1896774876)
- Category: Utilities, Productivity
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 15.0 · 27 MB
- Languages: American English, Japanese
- Released: 2026-06-12
- Data updated: 2026-10-25

## What is NeatPaste?

NeatPaste cleans up pasted text and lets you compare key values with the original before you copy, export, or share it.

■ CLEAN UP PASTED TEXT

Choose from three cleanup modes.

Smart Clean
Rejoins broken lines, removes extra spaces, changes curly quotes to straight quotes, and removes unwanted invisible characters.

AI Clean
Removes # and ## heading marks and ** emphasis asterisks from AI responses while keeping bullet markers intact.

Turns mid-sentence em dashes into commas in English text, while preserving dashes in number ranges, headings, code, and URLs.

PDF Repair
Rejoins lines copied from PDFs, repairs words split by end-of-line hyphens, and removes lines that contain only page numbers.

You can also run individual actions for line breaks, spaces, quotes, blank lines, full-width characters, dashes, and emoji. Only the selected action runs.

■ CHECK EACH CLEANUP

After every cleanup, NeatPaste compares numbers, amounts, dates, URLs, email addresses, phone numbers, lists, headings, and other items before and after formatting.

If nothing changed, you can continue to copy or share. If something changed, the app shows the affected category and count.

■ COMPARE WITH THE ORIGINAL

Open Check from the bottom bar to list the amounts, dates, numbers, URLs, and other values in your text. Add the original text to see whether any values changed. Check never rewrites your text.

Viewing the results, checking invisible characters, and copying the verification record are free.

■ COPY AND EXPORT

Copy the cleaned text, export it as a PDF, or share it. Undo restores the text from before the last cleanup. You can also send text to NeatPaste from another app's share menu.

■ PRO — ONE-TIME PURCHASE

Pro includes:

• Detailed before-and-after changes
• Selective restore
• Protected terms for names, companies, and model numbers
• Cleanup inside email quotes and indented lists
• Formatting for different destinations
• Removal of repeated company or document title lines from PDFs
• Choose what to compare after cleanup
• Before-and-after details in Check and one-tap copying of original values
• Locations of invisible characters by line and character position

There is no subscription. One purchase works across iPhone, iPad, and Mac, and can be restored from the purchase screen.

■ PRIVACY

All processing stays on your device. Your text is never uploaded and is not kept as history. Text you send from the Share Sheet is held on your device for up to 5 minutes only so the app can receive it, and is deleted once received or at the next launch. No external AI service, account, or ads.

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| NeatPaste Pro | $9.99 | one-time |
| 7-day Trial | Free | one-time |


## Is NeatPaste safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess NeatPaste.

## Is NeatPaste legit?

NeatPaste: Strip AI Markdown appears legitimate, with a few gaps. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for NeatPaste is 65 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 3.3.0 — 2026-10-23

This update makes daily text cleanup smoother.

1. Try every Pro feature free for 7 days. The trial starts only when you choose it, never turns into a purchase, and returns you to the free version with your settings kept.
2. A new illustrated guide shows first-time users how to clean text from the Share Sheet.
3. Check now finds Japanese dates written without a year, such as 8月31日, and skips impossible dates such as 2月30日.
4. AI Clean converts mid-sentence em dashes to commas in English. Em dashes stay in headings, number ranges, line ends, code, and URLs, and are removed next to brackets or exclamation marks.
5. AI Clean keeps Markdown link text intact to avoid false alerts.
6. Fixed issues with URLs, emails, and code inside straight quotes.

### 3.2.0 — 2026-10-05

Version 3.2 adds Check.

• Find amounts, dates, times, numbers, URLs, email addresses, and phone numbers in pasted text
• Add the original text to see whether any values changed
• View and copy the results and verification record for free
• Use Pro to see before-and-after details and copy original values
• Detect special characters that look like ordinary spaces

Check never rewrites, saves, or uploads your text. Everything runs on your device.

### 3.1.0 — 2026-08-26

v3.1. On Mac, you can now see the cleaned text before you copy it.

• Click the menu bar icon or press ⌃⌥⌘V: the cleaned text appears with one line showing what survived. Nothing touches your clipboard until you press [Copy and close]
• Switch between Smart Clean / AI Clean / PDF Repair right there
• Choose what happens to long dashes (—): replace with a comma, replace with a hyphen, or remove and close the gap
• Choose how far emoji removal goes: line starts only, or everywhere
• Invisible characters (zero width, bidirectional controls and more) are counted by type, with the line and character position
• Fixed a bug where the Mac menu bar and the keyboard shortcut stopped responding

### 3.0.0 — 2026-08-18

v3.0. You now pick how the text gets cleaned — and every cleanup checks that nothing went missing.

• Three ways to clean: Smart Clean (line breaks, spaces, quotes) / AI Clean (the ## and ** in AI answers) / PDF Repair (PDF breaks, hyphens, page numbers)
• Every cleanup compares numbers, URLs, bullets and headings before and after, in one line under the output. Free
• A URL disappeared, an amount changed — one confirmation before you copy. It never blocks you
• Pro adds: what changed, selective undo, protected terms, your own rules, destination presets
• iPad: side by side, drag and drop, keyboard shortcuts

Individual actions work as before.

### 2.0.0 — 2026-06-23

A big update.

• Smart Clean — one tap fixes line breaks, spaces, quotes, and full-width characters at once
• Structure preserved — headings, bullet lists, numbers, and paragraphs stay intact; only wrapped lines are joined
• Better Japanese formatting — no stray spaces inserted between characters
• Share to clean — send text from any app’s share menu and it’s cleaned and copied automatically
• Export as PDF
• Stronger handling of broken line breaks from AI, web, PDF, and Word

no ads, no tracking, processed on your device.

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