Pastewash

What it is

Pastewash is a small, free tool that does one thing properly: it takes text you have copied from somewhere else and hands it back clean. Hidden formatting, invisible characters, odd dashes and the stray artefacts that AI tools leave behind all come out.

There is nothing to install and nothing to sign up for. Paste, clean, copy, carry on.

Who it's for

Writers, marketers, students and anyone who moves text between apps and has been bitten by formatting that travelled with it.

It is especially useful for anyone publishing text that started life in an AI tool and needs to read as their own.

What it does

• Strips hidden formatting and zero-width characters that break layouts and search.
• Normalises quotes, dashes and spacing so pasted text matches the page it lands on.
• A Pro tier for people who clean text all day and want the heavier options.

How it fits the ecosystem

Pastewash is the smallest brand under A Roll Media and the most widely useful — a genuinely free tool that introduces people to the company without asking anything of them.

It is ad-funded with a paid Pro tier, which keeps it free for the people who only need it occasionally.