If you’ve ever copied something out of ChatGPT and pasted it into LinkedIn, Notion, or your CMS, you’ll know what this is for.

The text looks fine. Until it isn’t.

Suddenly your quotes are curly, your dashes are ems, and there’s an invisible character between every other word that breaks your layout or screws with your formatting.

That’s what Strip AI is for.

It just takes that weirdly formatted mess and normalises it. No faffing, no login, no bullshit.

🧹 Straight quotes instead of curly ones

➖ Hyphens instead of em/en dashes

🧽 No smart apostrophes, non-breaking spaces, or unicode goblins

🎉 Optional emoji nuke button

⸻ Also has a section-break toggle if you’re copying out blog posts with ⸻ everywhere

Paste on the left, stripped version on the right. Copy it back out, clean and usable.

Try it here: https://strip-ai.spacenectar.io

Or self-host it with Docker:

docker run -p 3000:3000 foxleigh81/strip-ai

What it’s not

It’s not rewriting your text. There is no AI built into this thing, it's a really simple text replacement tool that just cleans up the junk that LLMs tend to inject.

Under the hood

Strip AI is built with Vite, styled with Tailwind. It's accessibility-first, dark mode included, and deployed via a multi-stage Docker build.

It’s open source and MIT licensed:

github.com/foxleigh81/strip-ai

Why?

Because I see obviously AI generated content everywhere. For the most part it doesn't bother me but I feel like some things like the emdash and the smart quotes really give it away. I see a need for a tool like this and thanks to tools like Cursor, it takes almost no time to spin something quick like this up these days.