Copy PlainText Alternatives

Apps similar to Copy PlainText include PureText, which is free. Other options are Pure Paste, PlainPaste, PasteUnformatted and text-format. In total there are six Clipboard Managers like Copy PlainText for Windows, Mac and the web.

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  1. PureText icon
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    PureText is a tiny (13Kb) application for Windows that allows you to paste text to any application without formatting, using a hotkey (default Win + V).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  2. Pure Paste icon
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    How many times have you pasted some text into an email and ended up with a mess of different font sizes?

    17 Pure Paste alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  3.  1 like

    PlainPaste is a simple app to let you paste copied text without formatting in Windows. Simple press Ctrl-V once to paste regularly, or twice fast to paste as text.

    6 PlainPaste alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • AutoHotkey
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  4. When copying text from one application and pasting it into another one, you usually get to keep the formatting of the text as well. With formatting, I here refer to font size, text color, bold, hyperlinks, et cetera.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  5. Text-format is text format cleaner online tool,text cleaner,format text online,text format remover,strip HTML,remove characters,replace online.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Online
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  6. Purifai icon
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    Purifai removes unsupported formatting while keeping what the destination app understands — so your text pastes cleanly into Mail, Docs, Slack, Word, and more.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
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