Strip fonts, colours, links and hidden HTML from anything you copy. One click turns your clipboard into clean plain text.
Users
8
+6 in 30 days
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Version
1.0.0
updated 28 Aug 2026
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About Plain Text: Remove Formatting from Clipboard
Copy from anywhere. Paste clean, everywhere.
When you copy text out of a web page, Google Docs, Word, a PDF or an email, you also copy a pile of invisible baggage — fonts, colours, background highlights, hidden HTML, zero-width characters and broken line breaks. Paste it somewhere else and it looks wrong.
Plain Text Utility fixes that in one click. Copy anything, click "Clean my clipboard", then paste. That's it.
WHAT IT REMOVES
• Fonts, sizes, colours and background highlighting
• Hidden HTML tags, styles and embedded links
• Curly quotes, em dashes and ellipsis characters, straightened to plain ASCII
• Zero-width spaces, soft hyphens, byte-order marks and other invisible junk
• Non-breaking spaces that break your layout later
• Trailing spaces and runs of blank lines
SWITCH ON WHAT YOU NEED
Every rule is a toggle, and your choices are remembered:
• Straighten quotes and dashes
• Remove invisible characters
• Tidy spacing
• Unwrap hard line breaks — brilliant for PDF text that arrives broken mid-sentence
• Strip link URLs but keep the words
You can also paste straight into the box and clean it there, then edit the result before copying.
FREE FOREVER
The full clipboard cleaner, every rule above, the editable result box, the copy button and both dark and light themes are completely free. No trial, no ads, no account.
PREMIUM — £1.99, ONE OFF
• Automatic list clean-up — every list in the copied text is rebuilt as tidy • bullets
• Numbered lists renumbered in order as 1. 2. 3., even when the source is a mess
• Nested bullets flattened to consistent indenting
One payment. No subscription, no account, no renewals.
PRIVACY
Cleaning happens entirely on your own machine, and your clipboard contents are never transmitted anywhere. The extension cannot see the pages you visit — it only touches the clipboard, and only when you click the button. The one network request it makes is a licence check to extensionpay.com when you open the popup, and that check carries no clipboard data. Payments are handled by Stripe; your card details are never seen or stored by this extension.
PERFECT FOR
Anyone pasting between Word, Google Docs, Notion, email, a CMS or code — and everyone who is tired of paste-and-then-reset-the-font.