Cleartext

UPDATE January 2020: See Textato for an updated version of this app.

Download for Mac 10.11+

Follow @mortenjust on Twitter for updates.

What’s this?

A text editor that only allows the 1,000 most common words in English

I just got Randall Munroe’s new book Thing Explainer. Only using the top 1,000 words makes the text really easy to read. I thought I would make it easy for people to write like this, so I made this application. It’s cool to be clear.

Use it to tell your family members why their computers act up, or tell people at work why they should pay you more.

Trump mode

Trained with a few of Trump’s best known speeches, the app is now ready to help you write like a billionaire.

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More

• Medium: I doomed mankind with a free text editor
• Google top 10,000 words
• Randall Monroe: Thing Explainer
• Simple Writer
• The Space Doctor’s Big Idea
• Turbo Encabulator

Simpler thesaurus

Repo, Medium post

On the web

• Lifehacker: Cleartext Limits Your Writing to the 1,000 Most Common Words in English
• The Telegraph: The 1,000 most used words in English – in one genius app
• Product Hunt
• OSX Daily: Write Like a Politician with Simple Language Editor for Mac
• Mashable: Cleartext only lets you write with the 1,000 most common words