What it does
Tidy turns the clipboard into a one-keystroke workspace.
Copy anything, anywhere. Press ⌘⇧Y (Mac) or Ctrl+Shift+Y (Win/Linux). A
small chip pops up near your cursor with seven options:
- 🧹 Clean — strip formatting, fix smart quotes, normalize whitespace
- 📤 Extract — pull emails, URLs, phones, and dates from messy text
- ✨ Polish — fix grammar, preserve tone
- 🎯 Concise — same meaning, fewer words
- 💼 Professional — formal rewrite for emails and docs
- 😊 Friendly — warm rewrite for messages and replies
- 📝 Summarize — TL;DR in 1–3 sentences
Pick one. The transformed text replaces your clipboard. Paste anywhere.
The whole flow is under 3 seconds for AI transforms, under 500ms for the free ones.
Privacy
- Bring your own key → your clipboard goes straight from your browser to the AI provider you chose (Gemini, Anthropic, or OpenAI). We can’t see it, we have no servers in the loop.
- Free tier → 5 transforms per day pass through a small proxy we run on Cloudflare on their way to Google’s Gemini. The proxy doesn’t log your text — only counts requests so the free limit can be enforced. Its source code is open and linked from the extension’s settings.
Clean and Extract are always free, always instant, and never leave your browser at all (they’re not AI — just regular code running locally).
Why I built it
I kept opening ChatGPT to do the same five things over and over: paste something, ask it to “make this more concise” or “fix the grammar”, copy the result, paste somewhere else. That’s six steps to do one thing.
Tidy is the version of that loop where you just press a key.
What’s next
- Custom prompts (v1.1)
- Per-app smart defaults (v1.2)
- Translate (v1.2)