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Desktop App · Updated Jul 2026

plainpaste

Tray utility that silently strips rich-text formatting from everything you copy, so every paste lands as plain text — with per-app exclusions and a global paste-as-plain hotkey.

plainpaste screenshot
Key features
  • Auto-strip engine: 200ms clipboard poll (formats + text hash, cheap when idle), 150ms debounce for lazy writers like Office, rewrite as plain text only when text/html/text/rtf…
  • Safety filter: clipboards containing files (FileNameW on Windows, public.file-url on macOS) or any image/* format are never touched; whitespace-only text is skipped.
  • Feedback-loop guard: the watcher remembers its own writes, so cleaning never re-triggers itself (counter goes +1, not +infinity).
  • Tray-first app: programmatically drawn gradient icon (filled = on, outline ring = paused), left-click opens the menu on Windows, menu has Auto-clean checkbox, Clean clipboard…
  • Global paste-as-plain hotkey (Ctrl+Alt+V / Cmd+Opt+V): strips the clipboard then synthesizes a paste keystroke into the active app; registration failure is surfaced in the…
  • Settings window (420x560, hide-on-close, Esc hides): master toggle, cleaned counters, exclusion list with running-app picker and manual entry, hotkey display, launch-at-login…
  • Single-instance enforced; macOS Accessibility state surfaced with an "Open Settings" deep link.
First releaseJul 2026
Last updatedJul 2026
PlatformWindows

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Experimental, unfinished software
This is a personal side project released as an experiment, not a commercial product. It may contain bugs, may behave unpredictably, may stop working after an operating system update, and may be abandoned at any time without notice or migration path.
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You accept all risk
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