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TextShine

Powerfully transform text

Trevor Williams

io.github.phase1geo.textshine
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Easily paste text from the clipboard or load text from a file, modify the text with loads of built-in text actions and user-created custom text workflows, and save the changes to the clipboard or to a file.

In addition to the built-in actions, TextShine allows you to create and test custom text conversion workflows. These custom workflows can then be used in the same way that built-in actions are used within the application.

Key features include the following:

  • Load text from clipboard or from a file.
  • Save text back to clipboard, to the same file or to a new file.
  • Unlimited undo/redo of text changes.
  • Apply a text action in a single click.
  • Support for action favoriting.
  • Support for creating and testing custom actions.
  • Quickly search available text actions.
  • Character, word, line, match and spelling error statistics.
  • Support for font size changes.
  • Built-in spell checker.
  • Batch process files, applying a custom action to each file.
  • Categorized text actions which include:
  • Action: Changing case
  • Action: Inserting text, line numbers, lorem ipsum and file/URL contents
  • Action: Removing line numbers, duplicate lines, blank lines/spaces and matched text
  • Action: Replacement of text
  • Action: Quotation conversion
  • Action: Line sorting
  • Action: Character, word, line, sentence and paragraph randomization
  • Action: Indentation handling
  • Action: Search and replace (includes regular expression support)
  • Action: Automatic text repair
  • Action: Text conversion
  • Action: MD5, SHA-1/256/384/512 encoding and Base64 encoding/decoding
  • Action: URL encoding/decoding
  • Action: Hard wrapping
  • Action: Markdown utilities
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Screenshots

Main interface with text and text actions
Main interface with text and text actions
Create custom actions
Create custom actions
Batch process files with a custom action
Batch process files with a custom action

Observed history

App ChangeVersionWhen ↑
new3.0.017 Oct 2026

Upstream releases

Release notes supplied by the developer. These dates are not Flathub package publication times.

3.0.027 Sept 2026

New

  • Added About window to help in debugging issues.
  • Added support for exporting custom actions.
  • Added support for importing custom actions.
  • Added customizable auto-indent action.
  • Added support for global action settings (used by new auto-indent action).
  • Added insert newline action.
  • Added support for batch file processing (custom action applied to one or more files).

Changes

  • Updated application icon.
  • Updated Dutch translation (thanks to Helmen Stoffels).
  • Updated German translation (thanks to Benjamin Weis).
  • Updated elementary OS flatpak manifest.
  • Increased default width of the sidebar.
  • Updated Meson environment files for newer versions of Meson.
  • Changed application ID from com.github.phase1geo.textshine to io.github.phase1geo.textshine.
  • Removed Debian release files.
  • Changed tooltip for the preferences menubutton.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed valac compiler warnings.
  • Fixed majority of obsolete library issues.
  • Fixed issue where a non-text file is attempted to be inserted into the text area.
  • Fixed case actions to allow non-English words to be modified correctly.
  • Fixed issue with using regular expressions from dropdown menus.
  • Fixed issues with some of the action copy functions.
2.0.018 Feb 2024

New

  • Added highlight-line option to Find and Regular Expression.
  • Added German translation (thanks to Benjamin Weis).
  • Added convert function between CSV and Markdown Table formats.
  • Added convert function for decoding URLs.
  • Added support for setting sidebar width via gsettings.
  • Added support for inserting the contents from a URL.
  • Added support for adding user notes to custom functions.
  • Added new randomize function to operate on text.
  • Added new insert URL content function.
  • Added keyboard shortcuts cheatsheet.
  • Added preferences window support.
  • Added preference support for changing spellchecker language.

Changes

  • Updated from GTK3 to GTK4.
  • Updated Dutch translation (thanks to @Vistaus).
  • Updated Italian translation (thanks to @albanobattistella).
  • Updated Flatpak version from 6 to 7.2.
  • Added home directory permissions by default to Flatpak.
  • Improved header bar icons to work in non-elementary environments.
  • Widening sidebar to accommodate different displays (this can also be changed with gsettings).
  • Enhanced Indent XML functionality to properly indent XML code that is in minimized format.
  • Improved Convert Markdown Table settings UI.
  • Text function options are now displayed inline in the sidebar rather than via a popup.
  • Added tooltips to entry fields in functions.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed regexp searching issue that could cause application to hang.
  • Fixed app script warnings.
  • Fixed issue with translations not working in Flatpak.
  • Fixed issue using Indent XML that could cause the application to crash.
  • Fixed handling of XML comments in Indent XML conversion function.
  • Fixed issue with spell-checker when no matches are available.
  • Fixed issue with remembering size of window when it was last closed.
  • Fixed statistics icon for non-elementary OS environments.
1.2.017 Jan 2022

New

  • Added MD5, SHA-1/256/384/512 checksum conversion functions.
  • Added Base64 encoding/decoding functions.
  • Added functions to support Markdown task manipulation.
  • Added spell checker.
  • Added number of spelling errors to document statistics.

Changes

  • Changed editor margins for improved readability.
  • Improved accuracy of the list of translatable files.
  • Added application to the open desktop WordProcessor category.
  • Improved layout of function buttons.
  • Enhanced built-in, insertable HTML/XML tag regular expressions.
  • Moved Create Custom Action... button from action list to the right of the search field in the sidebar.
  • Removed Accounts permissions from Flatpak manifest as it is no longer needed.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed XML indentation functionality.
  • Removed extraneous debug output when running in terminal.
  • Fixed issue where changing function menu options did not properly save the state.
  • Fixed issues with favoriting/unfavoriting actions.
  • Fixed action search to include custom actions.
  • Fixed issue with loading favorited custom actions.
  • Fixed UI issues with custom sidebar.
  • Fixed issues with converting lower/upper case of Unicode characters.
1.1.08 Aug 2021

New

  • Added Italian translation (thanks to @albanobattistella).
  • Added Flatpak manifest for releasing for elementary OS 6.
  • Added dark mode system support.

Changes

  • Updated application to use libhandy-1 to comply with elementary OS HIG recommendations.
  • Updated gtksourceview from 3 to 4.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed random case transform functionality.
  • Fixed determination of camel case in text string.
  • Fixed warning messages when non-existent files are attempted to be opened.