PlainPad Release Notes

• 1.4.3
• 1.4.2
• 1.4.1
• 1.4.0
• 1.3.4
• 1.3.3
• 1.3.2
• 1.3.1
• 1.3.0
• 1.2.0
• 1.1.0
• 1.0.1
• 1.0.0

1.4.3

April/13/2026

New:
New feature to enable and disable automatic line wrapping. This can be done either via the menu under View - Toggle Word Wrap or using the button at the bottom of the editor window. This feature toggles the behavior on a per-document basis.

Improvements:
Changes to the interface to improve compatibility with macOS Tahoe

1.4.2

January/12/2026

New:

• PlainPad now adopts the new window design in macOS 26

Improvements:

• TextButler: when a new recipe is created in the settings, it is selected immediately
• TextButler - new ingredients: uppercase letters, lowercase letters, capitalization, basic HTML entity encoding and decoding
• improvements for the action “Move cursor to end of paragraph and line break”
• Adjusted the display in the save dialog for TXT files; instead of NSPLainText, Plain Text is now displayed.
• Adapted the layout of the TextButler interface to the new window scheme of macOS 26.
• Minor adjustments in the TextButler settings to improve functionality under macOS Tahoe.

1.4.1

October/13/2025

Improvements:

• Various minor internal adjustments and changes to improve compatibility with newer macOS versions

1.4.0

August/05/2025

New:

• TextButler System. TextButler allows you to compile your own sets of text transformations that can be applied to selected text or text pasted from the clipboard. The following actions are available:
  • Trimming spaces and custom-defined characters in a variety of ways
• Removing empty lines
• Replacing and removing words
• Inserting into a template
• Searching and replacing using regular expressions
• Actions can also be combined in recipes and adapted for different use cases.
• TextButler can be managed in the settings in the TextButler section
• In the editor, TextButler can be applied using the following menu items or the corresponding keyboard shortcuts
  • Edit - Insert with TextButler
  • Edit - Apply TextButler to selection
  
  

• Option to automatically copy selected text to the clipboard. The option can be found in the settings in the Editor section

Bug fixes:

• Fixes a bug when calling up the support websites via the main menu

1.3.4

General:

• many internal changes and adjustments to improve compatibility with newer macOS versions

Bug fixes:

• fixes a bug in the text editor that led to display errors under certain circumstances

1.3.3

Note:
PlainPad requires at least macOS 10.13 or newer as of this version

Bug fixes:

• Addresses a display error in the editor in newer macOS versions that causes "ghost text" to appear at the bottom under certain conditions

1.3.2

*Bug fixe:*

• fixes a bug when exiting split full screen mode to adjust the text field correctly

1.3.1

New:

• new option in the Preferences for the Fullscreen settings, with which scroll-actions can also be triggered outside the actual text field

Bug fixes:

• fixes various display errors related to the footer

1.3.0

New:

• new setting in Preferences to control if PlaidPad should open documents in single windows or tabs (macOS 10.12 or newer)
• new setting for specifying a text template, which should be automatically inserted in new documents
• new additional option for the setting "Prevent save dialog for unsaved changes" for unnamed documents so that they are restored at the next start of PlainPad

1.2.0

New:

• new feature that simplifies the correction of misspelled words and allows suggested corrections to be displayed via keyboard shortcuts. This feature can be activated in the preferences under the item Typography. More details about this feature can be found in the help
• new preference options in the Typography section to adjust the system-wide text settings for "Automatically replace two spaces with periods" and "Automatically capitalize words after a period" in Plainpad

Improvements:

• minor adjustments to the user interface
• minor revisions in the help

1.1.0

New:

• support for Apple Silicon-processors

Changes:

• changed the look of the lock button to keep window on top to improve visibility
• minor visual corrections in the presets for fullscreen mode

Improvements:

• various internal improvements

Bug fixes:

• fixes a visual bug in fullscreen mode when the settings are changed while fullscreen mode is active

1.0.1

New:

• text actions via the menu or shortcut
  • indent and reindent of text
  • move text up, down, left and right
  • duplicate text up, down, left and right
  • various commands to move the insertion point quickly
  
  

Improvements:

• allows handling of very large files that caused Plainpad to freeze. In these cases the character counter and the padding setting of the text field are deactivated
• if the option "Open untitled document on start-up" is deactivated, a new document can still be created by clicking on the dock icon
• Preference option for the editor: the font size can now also be set with a self-defined size in addition to the preset values
• minor internal updates

Bug fixes:

• fixes a bug in the display of the help pages

1.0.0

Initial first regular release