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TextShine

Powerfully transform text.

  • Completely free
  • Linux
  • Open source

Overview

Features described in its Flathub listing and in its GitHub repository: Markdown support.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information
  • “Character, word, line, match and spelling error statistics.” — Flathub, 10 November 2026
  • “Batch process files, applying a custom action to each file.” — Flathub, 10 November 2026
  • “Action: Markdown utilities” — Flathub, 10 November 2026

At a glance

All of TextShine is free: no feature is locked behind a paid plan, and its code is open.

Its licence (GPL-3.0+) is a copyleft open source licence: you may use, study, modify and redistribute it, including commercially; modified versions must keep the same licence.

Strengths

  • Open source code
  • Commercial use allowed

About

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

Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from Flathub (credit card, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) —
  • Last technical check: 8 November 2026
  • Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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