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Daksh Gargas
Daksh Gargas

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Gmail ate my formatting. So I built PasteClean.

Paste Clean

The problem that wouldn't leave me alone: I'd draft something in Notes or ChatGPT — clean formatting, bold headings, blockquotes — copy it, paste it into Gmail's compose window, and watch it fall apart.

White text on white background. Fonts swapped. Layouts collapsed. Gmail's renderer strips a lot of HTML, and nothing on iOS fixes it cleanly before the paste.

So I built one.

PasteClean is an iOS app that sits between your writing and Gmail's compose window:

→ Write in a rich text editor
→ Preview exactly how it'll look in Gmail (light and dark mode)
→ Copy — PasteClean sanitizes the HTML and puts Gmail-safe markup on your clipboard
→ Paste. Formatting intact.

It's live on the App Store! 🎊

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