Feature tour

Everyday text workflows, mapped end to end.

Clarity Edit is organized around what you are doing with text: writing, capturing, cleaning, reusing, exporting, or editing lightweight code. Features marked Pro are part of the one-time Clarity Pro upgrade.

Write Notes Data Prompts Code Big files Workspaces Export and history Search Safe saving
Write Mode

Drafts, specs, essays, emails, and Markdown.

A clean writing surface with Markdown awareness, live preview, and stats that help without getting between you and the text. Everything stays plain text and portable.

Markdown editor guide

Writing surfaceSoft wrap, adjustable text size, tabs, Focus Mode, and macOS spelling and grammar checking.
MarkdownHeadings, lists, checkboxes, links, tables, and code blocks with a live preview.
OutlineClick any heading in the outline to jump straight to it.
Writing toolsInsert a Markdown table or a table of contents in one step, and convert text to title case.
StatsWord count, character count, line count, and reading time, kept up to date as you type.
Note Mode

Quick local notes without a cloud workspace.

For meeting notes, class notes, study outlines, research fragments, and everyday Markdown notes.

Notes and writing guide

Organized library

Recent, pinned, favorites, and tags in a sidebar you can collapse and customize.

Quick Note

Start a note from the Clarity icon in the menu bar, without hunting for the app window.

Portable files

Notes are normal files you can open in any other app.

No account

Nothing to sign in to, and no sync service your notes depend on.

Data Mode

Clean structured text locally.

For the small, frequent cleanup jobs that usually send people to web utilities: CSV rows, JSON blobs, XML, logs, pasted AI output, and lists. Nothing is uploaded.

Free cleanup

  • Trim trailing whitespace
  • Remove blank lines
  • Convert tabs to spaces
  • Sort and deduplicate lines
  • Uppercase, lowercase, and title case

Formatting and conversion Pro

  • Format and minify JSON
  • Format XML
  • CSV to JSON
  • CSV to Markdown table, and back
  • Sort CSV rows

Extraction Pro

  • Extract emails
  • Extract URLs
  • Extract phone numbers
  • Extract numbers
  • Extract dates
Data Mode converting a CSV file in Clarity Edit

Data tools guide · Text cleaning guide

Prompt Mode

Reusable prompts and clean pasted output.

Prompt Mode is local-first. Clarity has no built-in AI connection: it helps you store, fill, copy, clean, and reuse prompt text that you control.

Prompt manager guide

VariablesWrite placeholders like {topic}, {audience}, and {tone}, and Clarity lists them as you type.
Copy and cleanCopy the prompt in one click, and clean up extra blank lines in pasted AI output.
Starter templatesStart from templates for summaries, rewrites, research, and structured output.
Prompt library ProSave unlimited prompt templates, fill in their variables, and delete the ones you no longer need.
Output history ProKeep prompt and output pairs together for later review and reuse.
Code Mode

Code when you need it, without becoming an IDE.

Open a script or config file and start editing, with no project setup and no indexing to wait for.

Code editor guide

Free

  • Syntax highlighting and line numbers.
  • Plain text, Markdown, JSON, XML, CSV, YAML, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python, and Swift.
  • Automatic language detection.

Full Code Mode Pro

  • 20+ languages, including SQL, Salesforce Apex, and SOQL.
  • Code completion.
  • Reusable snippets.
  • Split view.
New in 1.5

Big files stay responsive.

Large CSV exports, long logs, and book-length Markdown documents stay smooth while you type. Clarity only does the work the screen needs: line numbers are drawn for the lines you can see, and stats for large documents are calculated in the background.

A large log file open in Clarity Edit
Files and workspaces

Standard files, local metadata, useful sidebars.

Real files

Open and save txt, md, csv, json, xml, yaml, html, css, js, py, swift, sql, log, cls, trigger, and more.

Workspace folders Pro

Add several project folders to the sidebar and browse them alongside your notes.

Local metadata

Recent, tags, favorites, pins, workspaces, templates, snippets, and history stay in local app data on your Mac.

Export and history

Share polished documents and roll back local changes.

Free users keep full access to plain text and Markdown. Pro adds formatted export and local history for repeated professional work.

FreeSave and export plain text and Markdown, copy, and print. Printed pages break between lines, never through them.
Export ProPDF, HTML, DOCX, and RTF export, plus styled copy for pasting into email and documents.
History ProLocal snapshots of each document, with restore to an earlier version. Older snapshots are trimmed automatically so history stays small.
Compare ProCompare the current document with the clipboard or with another file.
New in 1.5

Your unsaved work is protected.

Clarity asks before anything with unsaved changes goes away, and it never closes a document that has not been saved.

Closing a tabChoose Save, Don't Save, or Cancel. If you choose Save and then cancel the save dialog, the document stays open.
Closing a windowReview every unsaved document in the window before it closes.
QuittingQuit checks all open documents first, so nothing is lost by accident.