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, Mozilla Firefox, Linux and AutoHotkey apps. The best PureText alternative is Pure Paste, which is free. Other great apps like PureText are AceText, PlainPaste, PasteUnformatted and Copy Plain Text 2.

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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).

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PureText alternatives page was last updated May 24, 2022
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    Pure Paste

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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?

    14 Pure Paste alternatives
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    License model

    • Free • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac

    Pure Paste Features

    1.  Clipboard monitoring
    2.  Text formatting
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    • Pure Paste is the most popular Mac alternative to PureText.

    • Pure Paste is the most popular free alternative to PureText.

    • Pure Paste is Free and ProprietaryPureText is also Free and Proprietary
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    AceText

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    AceText is a smart software tool that simplifies working with text by enabling you to store, manage, edit and reuse text from a central location.

    38 AceText alternatives
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    • Windows
    ClipHistory - Unlimited Cut, Copy and Paste
    AceText 4.0 with dark theme, regex syntax highlighting, and RSS reader.

    AceText Features

    1.  Syntax Highlighting
    2.  Portable
    3.  Clipboard monitoring
    4.  Note Manager
    5.  Plain text authoring
    6.  Custom templates
    7.  Support for regular expressions
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    horacelaalu

    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.

    Positive comment •Feb 23, 2021
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    • AceText is the most popular Windows alternative to PureText.

    • AceText is the most popular commercial alternative to PureText.

    • AceText is Paid and ProprietaryPureText is Free and Proprietary

  4. PlainPaste

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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.

    5 PlainPaste alternatives

    License model

    • Free • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • AutoHotkey
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  5. PasteUnformatted

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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.

    5 PasteUnformatted alternatives

    License model

    • Free • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows

    PasteUnformatted Features

    1.  Portable
    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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    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".

    5 Copy Plain Text 2 alternatives
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    License model

    • Free • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Waterfox
    • Pale Moon
    • Firefox

    Copy Plain Text 2 Features

    1.  Legacy Firefox Addon
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    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 icon Waterfox and Pale Moon icon Pale Moon

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    Copy PlainText

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

    5 Copy PlainText alternatives
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    License model

    • Free • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Firefox

    Copy PlainText Features

    1.  Support for Keyboard Shortcuts
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    • Copy PlainText is the most popular Linux alternative to PureText.

    • Copy PlainText is Free and ProprietaryPureText is also Free and Proprietary
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