UNRICH PRESS KIT
Updated 7 November 2026 · Online: https://coneno.com/en/apps/unrich/press/

ABOUT UNRICH
Unrich is a plain-text scratchpad for Mac. Paste text from any app and it arrives clean, with a comparison that shows exactly what changed, down to the invisible characters. Work on it, then copy it back or keep it for later.

AT A GLANCE
Unrich works well for email drafts, answers for web forms, notes from calls and snippets you need tomorrow. Press Option-Space in any app to bring it up and Command-Return to copy a note back out. Boards and columns give you more room when you need it.

Notes are saved automatically, without filenames, and stay on the Mac. There is no account, no sync and no analytics. Unrich is not a clipboard manager: it keeps no history, only what you add.

FACTS
Price: EUR 9.99 / US$9.99, one-time purchase
Requires: macOS 13 Ventura or later; Apple silicon and Intel
Language: English
Version: 1.1.2
First release: 2 November 2026
Developer: coneno GmbH, Germany
Mac App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6823232152
Website: https://coneno.com/en/apps/unrich/
Press contact: info@coneno.com

WHY WE MADE IT
One day we noticed that three of us had a habit of keeping an "Untitled" tab open in a text editor. It was never saved, still there after every restart. We used it to strip formatting before pasting into emails and forms. One of us even kept quick to-dos there because a task app felt like too much for him. Another kept piling up notes in there that didn't deserve a file. And we all liked working with plain text.

So we built Unrich, initially for ourselves. At first it was just a window you could bring up from any app to paste text, clean it, work on it and copy it somewhere else. Rich text in, plain text out. Hence the name :)

Then we added a diff to show what the cleanup changed, including unwanted invisible characters you wouldn't otherwise notice. Notes could be split, merged and moved around. Focus View gave us room to work on one note. We added plenty of keyboard shortcuts, so you can bring it up, move between notes, edit and copy text back without reaching for the mouse. Bit by bit it became more.

Using Unrich every day gave us more ideas: boards and columns for snippets we wanted side by side, Markdown cleanup for text that needed more structure, and Temporary Secrets for passwords we didn't want to keep. The app grew out of what we found useful ourselves.

Now Unrich holds our email drafts, snippets we need tomorrow, notes from calls and half-written answers for web forms. It is open on our Macs all day, and we think it might be useful for others too.

Say "Unrich" the German way, [ˈʊnʁɪç], and it sounds like a knight's name. Sir Unrich, defender of plain text.

TRY IT IN TWO MINUTES
First, install Unrich from the Mac App Store (https://apps.apple.com/app/id6823232152), or ask us for a free review copy (info@coneno.com). Then try the steps below on your Mac.

1. Copy the sample text from https://coneno.com/en/apps/unrich/press/#try (it contains a curly apostrophe, a non-breaking space, a zero-width space, a soft hyphen, typed bullets, trailing spaces and extra blank lines).
2. Press Option-Space to open Unrich, then Command-V. The text arrives as a new, cleaned note.
3. Click the note's ⋮ menu, or right-click the note, and choose Show Cleanup Changes. Each removed or fixed character is marked. Press Esc to close it.
4. Select the note and press Return to open it in Focus View. Edit a line, then press Command-Return to copy the note.
5. Paste it into any other app. It arrives as plain text.

Also try the formatted sample on the same page: fonts, colors, bold text and the link's formatting stay behind; the list stays a list.

REVIEW COPIES
For a free review copy, email info@coneno.com. We'll send you a Mac App Store promo code.

SCREENSHOTS (version 1.1.2)
unrich-main-window.png      Main window: a board of notes, opened from any app with Option-Space
unrich-cleanup-changes.png  Cleanup changes: what was removed or fixed when the text was pasted
unrich-focus-view.png       Focus View: one note, nothing else
unrich-dark.png             Dark appearance
unrich-boards.png           Boards and columns, when you need more room
unrich-icon-1024.png        App icon

FILM (with sound, 1920 x 1080)
Demo film, 35 s: text copied from a web page arrives clean in Unrich. At the end: a quick note from the menu bar.
YouTube: https://youtu.be/Sph5BIPcYhs
MP4: https://coneno.com/static/video/unrich-promo-compressed.mp4

USE OF MATERIAL
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ABOUT CONENO
coneno (https://coneno.com) is a software company based in Kaiserslautern, Germany. We build software for clients, bringing together software engineering, research and design. We also develop our own products, including Unrich and QuikFlow (https://quikflow.app).

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