Plain Text

Remove fonts and formatting from clipboard text

Plain Text - Remove Formatting from Clipboard Text

"Plain Text" is an Android app that allows users to swiftly eliminate any font and formatting information from text copied to the clipboard, resulting in plain text. Ideal for simplifying formatted text before pasting into emails or documents, it features a user-friendly interface and a widget for quick access. Based on Steve Miller's Pure Text utility, this app is open-source and licensed under the MIT license, with the source code available on GitHub.
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App stats

Users: 8,569
19
Rating: 3.82
(56)
Version: 1.5.3 (Last updated: 2023-08-27)
Creation date: 2015-10-05

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App summary

This app allows you to quickly easily remove any font and formatting information from text on the clipboard, leaving it as plain text. This can useful if you are copying formatted text into emails or other documents.

Just copy the formatted text onto the clipboard, then start the app and tap the Remove Formatting button. Thats all there is to it. A widget is also provided - just drag it onto the home screen and tap it to remove formatting from the clipboard text.

The inspiration for this app was Steve Miller's Pure Text utility for WIndows (http://stevemiller.net/puretext/).

This app is licenced under the MIT licence. Source code and licence information is available at https://github.com/andyjohnson0/PlainText.

User reviews

Thank you! I'd love a context menu option to make it even easier.
by Anthony McDonald, 2024-09-25

Doesn't allow the user to do anything. Whoever made this is an idiot
by Jesse D, 2022-08-03

I think this is nothing but a joke and does nothing
by Toshia sheri Andrews, 2022-01-20
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