Pure Paste Alternatives

Pure Paste is described as 'How many times have you pasted some text into an email and ended up with a mess of different font sizes?' and is an app in the office & productivity category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Pure Paste for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Web-based apps. The best Pure Paste alternative is ClearURLs, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Pure Paste are Clean Links - QR & Link Safety, Neat URL, PureText and Léon – The URL Cleaner.

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  1. ClearURLs icon
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    This extension will automatically remove tracking elements from URLs to help protect your privacy when browse through the Internet.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Google Chrome
    • Mozilla Firefox
    • Microsoft Edge
     
    • ClearURLs is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Pure Paste.

    • ClearURLs is Free and Open SourcePure Paste is Free and Proprietary
    • ClearURLs is Privacy focused and LightweightPure Paste is not according to our users
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    Cleans tracking parameters from URLs and QR codes for private sharing, unmasks shortened links to show final destination, integrates with macOS Shortcuts, ensures data stays on-device, ad-free, supports hundreds of popular sites, and requires no user data collection.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
    • Clean Links - QR & Link Safety is the most popular Mac, iPhone & iPad alternative to Pure Paste.

    • Clean Links - QR & Link Safety is Free and ProprietaryPure Paste is also Free and Proprietary
    • Clean Links - QR & Link Safety is Privacy focused and LightweightPure Paste is not according to our users
  3. Neat URL icon
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    Neat URL cleans URLs, removing parameters such as Google Analytics' utm parameters.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Vivaldi Browser
    • Google Chrome
    • Firefox
     
    • Neat URL is the most popular Web-based alternative to Pure Paste.

    • Neat URL is Free and Open SourcePure Paste is Free and Proprietary
  4. 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
     
    • PureText is the most popular Windows alternative to Pure Paste.

    • PureText is Free and ProprietaryPure Paste is also Free and Proprietary
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    Léon - The URL Cleaner removes tracking and other obsolete parameters from a URL before sharing. Its usage is simple, integrating into Android's standard sharing mechanism.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
    • F-Droid
     
    • Léon – The URL Cleaner is the most popular Android alternative to Pure Paste.

    • Léon – The URL Cleaner is Free and Open SourcePure Paste is Free and Proprietary
  6. Pure URL icon
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    This add-on automatically removes all garbage like "utm_source=*" from URLs. These fields are provided for the Google Analytics and they are not a necessity.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Google Chrome
    • Haiku
    • Opera
    • Firefox
     
    • Pure URL is the most popular Linux alternative to Pure Paste.

    • Pure URL is Free and Open SourcePure Paste is Free and Proprietary
  7. Tarnhelm icon
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    Tarnhelm can help you clean the tracking parameters in the links shared from the apps and keep the process natural.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
    • F-Droid
     
  8. UTM Stripper icon
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    This is a Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox extension that strips Google Analytics (i.e. Urchin Tracking Monitor) tokens from URL query strings.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Google Chrome
    • Safari
    • Firefox
     
  9. TrackerZapper icon
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    TrackerZapper is a Mac app that sits in your menubar and silently removes tracking parameters from any links you copy.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • AutoHotkey
     
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    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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    Copy PlainText is a tiny multi-process extension that removes the formatting from the selection before saving to the Clipboard.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Firefox
     
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