PureText Alternatives

PureText is described as 'Tiny (13Kb) application for Windows that allows you to paste text to any application without formatting, using a hotkey (default Win + V)' and is an app in the office & productivity category. There are six alternatives to PureText for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Firefox, Linux and AutoHotkey apps. The best PureText alternative is AceText. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Pure Paste or PlainPaste. Other great apps like PureText are PasteUnformatted, Copy Plain Text 2 and Copy PlainText.

PureText alternatives are mainly Note-taking Tools but may also be Clipboard Managers. Filter by these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of PureText.

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AceText
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Paid • Proprietary
Note-taking Tool
Clipboard Manager
Windows
37 AceText alternatives
AceText is a companion that eases and speeds up your everyday computer activities, whether that is writing reports or documents, text editing, programming, collecting information, conducting research, sending and responding to email, messaging and chatting, or any or all of...
- - AceText is the most popular Windows alternative to PureText.
- - AceText is the most popular commercial alternative to PureText.
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AceText Features
1. Syntax HighlightingAceText supports syntax highlighting for various programming and markup languages.
2. PortableAceText can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
Clipboard monitoring
Note Manager
Plain text authoring
Custom templates
Support for regular expressions
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AceText is primarily a text-only clipboard history and snippet manager, but it has a feature called "AcePure" which does the same thing as PureText.
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Pure Paste
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Free • Proprietary
Mac
14 Pure Paste alternatives
How many times have you pasted some text into an email and ended up with a mess of different font sizes?
- - Pure Paste is the most popular Mac alternative to PureText.
- - Pure Paste is the most popular free alternative to PureText.
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Pure Paste Features
Clipboard monitoring
Text formatting
PlainPaste
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Free • Proprietary
Windows
AutoHotkey
5 PlainPaste alternatives
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.
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PasteUnformatted
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Free • Proprietary
Windows
5 PasteUnformatted alternatives
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.
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PasteUnformatted Features
1. PortablePasteUnformatted can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
Discontinued
The program is no longer updated. Last version, released in December 2011, can be still downloaded from the official website.
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Copy Plain Text 2
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Free • Proprietary
Windows
Waterfox
Pale Moon
Firefox
5 Copy Plain Text 2 alternatives
With this addon you can copy selected text without any formatting such as italic, bold, font size, etc. Just select text, right click and from context menu choose "Copy as plain text".
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Copy Plain Text 2 Features
Legacy Firefox Addon
Discontinued
The extension is no longer updated since August 2016 and it doesn't work on Firefox 57 and later. It still works on XUL-based Firefox forks like Waterfox and Pale Moon
Copy PlainText
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Free • Proprietary
Mac
Windows
Linux
Firefox
5 Copy PlainText alternatives
Copy PlainText is a tiny multi-process extension that removes the formatting from the selection before saving to the Clipboard.
- - Copy PlainText is the most popular Linux alternative to PureText.
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Copy PlainText Features
Support for Keyboard Shortcuts