Textile – A desktop app for weaving together bits of text

omeone on Hacker News got sick of manually copy-pasting bits of text between apps to construct complicated dynamic URLs. So they built Textile, a macOS desktop app that weaves text together like a loom—weaving bits, commands, and clipboard contents into exactly the string you need. Built in Electron, because sometimes you just want to learn something new.

Textile lets you build strings step-by-step: append, prepend, replace, grab from your clipboard, or run terminal commands that spit out text. Save your recipes, assign keyboard shortcuts, hit a button or hotkey, and boom—your perfectly assembled text is ready. It works as a clipboard manager too, since half the time you just want instant access to those weird characters like ½ that nobody remembers the keyboard combo for.

Everything lives in plain text files on your machine. No cloud, no accounts, nobody else's hands on your data. Just you and your textiles. It's the anti-SaaS—local-first, privacy-native, built by one person who needed it exists.

Currently available for macOS on both Apple Silicon and Intel.