Paste Plain Text
Paste Plain Text is a Mac menu bar utility that removes formatting from copied text so you can paste clean plain text into any app.
What is Paste Plain Text?
Paste Plain Text is a lightweight Mac utility for cleaning copied text before you paste it elsewhere. It runs from the menu bar and strips rich-text styling such as fonts, sizes, colors, highlights, bold, and italics from clipboard text, making it useful when moving content between email, documents, notes, web forms, and chat apps. You can use it in automatic mode to clean every copied text item in the background, or trigger plain-text conversion on demand when you only need it occasionally. The app also supports exclusions so specific apps can keep their normal clipboard behavior. Paste Plain Text is published by Fiplab and is designed for users who regularly paste content into places where consistent formatting matters more than preserving original styling.
Key features
- Strip formatting from copied clipboard text before pasting
- Run in automatic mode to clean every text copy in the background
- Convert clipboard text to plain text on demand from the menu bar
- Remove fonts, sizes, colors, highlights, bold, italics, and other styling
- Exclude specific apps from automatic plain-text conversion
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Safety overview
Status: Mostly safe
This is a legitimate clipboard utility whose clipboard monitoring is consistent with its purpose. Because it watches copied text to remove formatting, users should be aware that anything copied to the clipboard may be processed while the app is running. That behavior is ordinary for this type of tool, but you may prefer to quit it temporarily when copying sensitive information or use app exclusions for workflows that need original formatting preserved.
Recommendation: Keep Paste Plain Text if you regularly paste text into apps where unwanted formatting causes problems. If you no longer need automatic plain-text pasting, you can remove it without affecting macOS, though you will lose its menu bar controls, exclusions, and background clipboard-cleaning behavior.
Common paths
/Applications/Paste Plain Text.app
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