Paste Plain Text Clean text,
every time.
Automatically strip formatting from everything you copy — or click to strip on demand from the menu bar. No more wrestling with fonts, sizes, and colors when you paste.
Requires macOS 11.5 or later
Strip formatting
on demand
Click "Paste as Plain Text" from the menu bar and your clipboard text is instantly stripped of all formatting. Fonts, sizes, colors, highlights — gone. Just clean, plain text ready to paste anywhere.
Always-on
format stripping
Turn on automatic mode and every single thing you copy is instantly stripped of formatting — continuously, in the background. No hotkey needed. Copy from a webpage, email, or document and it is already plain text on your clipboard, ready to paste anywhere.
Lives in your
menu bar
Paste Plain Text sits quietly in your menu bar, ready when you need it. Quick access to strip formatting on demand, toggle auto mode, or adjust preferences — all without opening a window.
Set it once,
forget it forever
Enable Launch at Login and Paste Plain Text starts automatically every time you turn on your Mac. It runs silently in the background, using virtually no resources, always ready when you need to paste clean text.
Simple by design, powerful by nature.
Clean up your clipboard
The simplest way to paste plain text on your Mac.
Requires macOS 11.5 or later