Text Case and Cleanup as an alternative to Text Format
Looking for an alternative to Text Format? Here are the public facts for both plugins and the steps to switch without losing your work.
At a glance
| Detail | Text Format | Text Case and Cleanup |
|---|---|---|
| What it does | Format selected text upper/lower/capitalize. | Converts the selection between upper, lower, title, sentence and capitalized case, or cycles through them. Also joins wrapped lines, rejoins words split across a line break, strips invisible characters and turns links into plain text. |
| Author | Benature | siulved54 |
| Latest version in the directory | 3.3.1 | 0.7.2 |
| Last update recorded | 9 November 2026 | 2 November 2026 |
| Total downloads | 237,487 | 2,284 |
| Price | Free and open source |
What Text Case and Cleanup does
Change the case of the text you have selected, and clean up prose that came out of a PDF, a scan or a web page.
How to switch from Text Format to Text Case and Cleanup
- Install Text Case and Cleanup from Install from the Obsidian directory.
- In Settings, Community plugins, turn Text Format off without deleting it, so the two do not act on the same action at once.
- Open the Text Case and Cleanup settings and review them once: settings from Text Format are not copied over.
- When everything works the way you expect, uninstall Text Format.
More about
Where these facts come from
Name, author, description, version, last-update date and downloads come from the public Obsidian directory files (community-plugins.json and community-plugin-stats.json), read on 12 November 2026. Download counts are the ones Obsidian publishes.
This page is written by the person who makes Text Case and Cleanup. If you maintain Text Format and want something corrected or removed, open an issue in the repository and it will be handled.