Remove formatting from any text.
Paste text from Word, Google Docs, a PDF or a website, and copy it back clean. It all runs in your browser, so your text never leaves this page.
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Get clean text on every paste, without this page.
Clipboard AI lives in your Mac menu bar and saves what you copy. Turn on Always paste as plain text, and every clip you paste from it lands clean. Hold Option when you want the formatting back.
Free to start. Pro adds unlimited history and iCloud sync: $19.99 a year, or $34.99 once, for iPhone, iPad and Mac.
Solves the copy-paste problem I keep running into on my Mac.
Digital Trends
Paste clean text in any app, without this page.
The Clipboard AI keyboard types your saved clips in as plain text, so the fonts and colors never come along. It works in every app, and the keyboard is free.
Free to start. Pro adds unlimited history and iCloud sync: $19.99 a year, or $34.99 once, for iPhone, iPad and Mac.
The feature that makes the app feel most useful.
Digital Trends, on the keyboard
Have an iPhone? Paste clean text there too.
Clipboard AI runs on iPhone, iPad and Mac. Its free keyboard types your saved clips in as plain text, in any app. Scan the code with your iPhone camera to get it.
Free to start. Pro adds unlimited history and iCloud sync: $19.99 a year, or $34.99 once, for iPhone, iPad and Mac.
Also use an iPhone or a Mac?
Clipboard AI isn't available on Android. On iPhone, iPad and Mac it saves what you copy and puts it a tap away. See how it works.
What each option does
| Option | What changes |
|---|---|
| Collapse extra spaces | Turns runs of spaces and tabs into one space, and trims the start and end of each line. |
| Collapse extra blank lines | Leaves at most one empty line between paragraphs. |
| Remove invisible characters | Swaps non-breaking spaces for normal ones and deletes zero-width characters and soft hyphens. Characters that shape emoji and scripts such as Arabic are left alone. |
| Remove tracking from links | Takes tags such as utm_source and fbclid off web addresses, and keeps the parts the page needs. |
| Fix broken line breaks | Rejoins sentences split across lines, which is common in text from PDFs and email. Paragraphs and list items keep their own lines. |
| Strip Markdown | Removes the asterisks, pound signs and backticks that AI chats can leave behind. |
| Straighten quotes and dashes | Replaces curly quotes, long dashes and the single ellipsis character with their plain keyboard versions. |
Paste without formatting, app by app
Many apps have their own shortcut, so you may not need this page at all.
| Where you paste | Shortcut |
|---|---|
| Most Mac apps | Option + Shift + Command + V. Some apps offer it only as Paste and Match Style in the Edit menu. Mac guide |
| Google Docs | Command + Shift + V on Mac, Ctrl + Shift + V on Windows |
| Microsoft Word | Command + Shift + V on Mac, Ctrl + Shift + V on Windows, in current versions. Make it the default on Mac |
| Excel for Mac | Your options in Excel |
| Chrome and Edge on Windows | Ctrl + Shift + V |
| iPhone | No shortcut, and no plain paste command in the edit menu. Every route on iPhone |
Questions
How do I remove formatting from text?
Paste the text into the box on this page and the clean version appears straight away. Fonts, colors, sizes, bold and links are gone as soon as it lands. Turn on any extra clean-up you want, then press Copy clean text.
Is it safe to paste private text here?
Your text stays in your browser. The cleaning runs on this page, and nothing you paste is uploaded or saved. We only count anonymous events, such as how many people pressed Copy, and never the text itself.
Why does copied text keep its font and color?
A copy holds more than one version of the same text: the plain characters, and a rich version with the fonts, colors and links. The app you paste into chooses which one to use, and most rich text editors pick the styled one.
What happens to links?
The link text stays and the hidden address is dropped, because plain text can't hold a link. A web address written out in full stays in the text, and Remove tracking from links takes tags such as utm_source off it.
How do I fix line breaks in text copied from a PDF?
Turn on Fix broken line breaks. It joins lines that were split in the middle of a sentence and rejoins words that were hyphenated at the end of a line. Blank lines between paragraphs and list items stay where they are.
Can this happen automatically every time I paste?
With Clipboard AI, yes. On Mac, turn on Always paste as plain text and every clip you paste from the app lands clean. On iPhone and iPad, the Clipboard AI keyboard types your saved clips in as plain text, in any app. It's free to start.
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Get clean text on every paste, without this page.
Clipboard AI lives in your Mac menu bar and saves what you copy. Turn on Always paste as plain text, and every clip you paste from it lands clean. Hold Option when you want the formatting back.
Free to start. Pro adds unlimited history and iCloud sync: $19.99 a year, or $34.99 once, for iPhone, iPad and Mac.
Solves the copy-paste problem I keep running into on my Mac.
Digital Trends
Paste clean text in any app, without this page.
The Clipboard AI keyboard types your saved clips in as plain text, so the fonts and colors never come along. It works in every app, and the keyboard is free.
Free to start. Pro adds unlimited history and iCloud sync: $19.99 a year, or $34.99 once, for iPhone, iPad and Mac.
The feature that makes the app feel most useful.
Digital Trends, on the keyboard
Have an iPhone? Paste clean text there too.
Clipboard AI runs on iPhone, iPad and Mac. Its free keyboard types your saved clips in as plain text, in any app. Scan the code with your iPhone camera to get it.
Free to start. Pro adds unlimited history and iCloud sync: $19.99 a year, or $34.99 once, for iPhone, iPad and Mac.
Also use an iPhone or a Mac?
Clipboard AI isn't available on Android. On iPhone, iPad and Mac it saves what you copy and puts it a tap away. See how it works.