Strip formatting with one keystroke.
PastePlain is a lightweight menu bar utility that cleans up and transforms clipboard text in an instant.
- Strip rich formatting to plain text
- Trim extra spaces, line breaks, and tabs
- Keep a table's structure while turning the text inside it plain
- Preview the clipboard, and bring back any of your last 10 clips
- Set your own shortcut, and pick exactly which tools run
Optional extras repair garbled text while the formatting is cleared:
- Fran%C3%A7ois → François
- H e l l o → Hello (stray spacing from PDFs)
- x² + H₂O → x2 + H2O
- Pull text out of an image with OCR
Press your shortcut once to remove formatting, twice to also remove line breaks. Changed your mind? Press it again and your original clipboard comes back.
Your clips stay on your Mac. Recent clips are kept in memory only, never written to disk.
All tools live right in your menu bar—no more bouncing between apps.
Perfect for writing, coding, or any text-heavy work.
Note: ⌘⌥⇧V (“Paste and Match Style”) isn’t universal on macOS. PastePlain is.
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- Added paragraph reconstruction (Advanced tab, used with "Remove newlines between lines")
: Rejoins words split across lines (informa-tion → information)
- Added "Keep OCR text as the original" (Advanced tab)
: With it on, press the shortcut once more to run the Fix and Utilities tools on the recognized text
- Added 17 OCR recognition languages
: Only the languages your macOS supports appear in the list
Version 1.1.9
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