Copy As Plain Text

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Status
Live on Store
Description from extension meta

Easily copy the selected text without formatting to the clipboard via the right-click menu.

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Copy As Plain Text
Description from store

Copy As Plain Text is a lite extension that lets you easily copy any text without formatting to the clipboard via the right-click context-menu item.

Simply browse a website and select a desired text, then right-click and select - Copy as plain text - from the context-menu. The selected text will be copied to the clipboard without any formatting. Alternatively, you can press the toolbar button to copy the plain text to the clipboard.

Please note that, to paste the clipboard you can use (Ctrl + V) or right-click and select - Paste - from the context-menu.

To report bugs, please fill out the bug report form on the addon's homepage (https://mybrowseraddon.com/copy-as-plain-text.html).

Latest reviews

Dylan Johnson 2025-09-30

Stopped working. said "copy failed will exceed publishers limit..." Thanks for delaying my studying.

Polonius Byke 2025-06-29

Works perfectly. Does not ask for unnecessary permissions. Thank you for making a quality extension!

Crystal Identity 2025-06-21

Technically, it works (copies text with all formatting removed). Unfortunately, in doing so, it also removes carriage returns. 😣 That means, when you copy text that is made up of separate lines and/or multiple paragraphs, when you paste it, you get a MASSIVE single block of text instead! Because of this, you then have to waste so much time and energy putting back all the carriage returns to separate the text into lines and paragraphs again. This is far too annoying for me to deal with, so I am uninstalling. I've decided to go with another extension, Copy as Plain Text - Format Cleaner, because that one is capable of retaining carriage returns.

Meynard Mojello 2024-10-16

Works on some text but not PDFs with different formats ( designed with Canva specifically).

Dan Nichols 2024-09-29

Needs shortcut key, right click function is an extra steps and mouse motion

Stanton McCandlish 2024-06-25

It works! Like others, I would like to have a keyboard shortcut for it (shift-ctrl-C maybe?). Ideally, it would be nice if it could (in the browser, not any other context) usurp the normal ctrl-C (or cmd-C on a Mac) operation to and copy without formatting by default, then require a different code like shift-ctrl-C to copy with formatting, since copying with formatting is nearly never actually wanted, but might be in some specialized context. But I can't take away a star for the extension not having a new feature I wish it had. For the feature it is advertised as providing, it provides it perfectly.

Muneeb Ahmad 2024-05-06

extension is so good

Muneeb Ahmad 2024-05-06

extension is so good

Harris Joe 2024-02-27

helpful! But I need a keyboard shortcut

Harris Joe 2024-02-27

helpful! But I need a keyboard shortcut

Agnieszka 2024-02-21

helpful

Agnieszka 2024-02-21

helpful

Eitan Caspi 2024-02-13

This extension is very good but it also removes line breaks so all the text output is in one big section, which is not nice. please add an option to be able to save the line breaks. thanks.

Isaac Alvarado 2024-01-22

It works when it feels like working. Half the time it works, half the time it fails. It's never consistent.

Saliim Mohammed 2024-01-02

working as expected.

Maya Posch 2023-12-14

Essential with writing papers. For some reason 'rich text' copying has become the norm, which means that if you just want to copy some text or a word, you also get the entire formatting, hyperlinks, etc. with it, which is rarely what you want. Rather than undoing the unnecessary formatting in the editor you pasted the text in, this extension (which should be the default behaviour...) saves you all that pain and agony.

Rainboweek 2023-08-15

Helping sooo much

Rainboweek 2023-08-15

Helping sooo much

Brenda Posh 2023-06-25

I really like using this extension and I use it daily. I'm always copying web text to put into emails or documents. Before finding this app, I had to copy and put into notepad and recopy from notepad to be able to have unformatted text. This makes the process so much more simple. It works. Thanks

Brenda Posh 2023-06-25

I really like using this extension and I use it daily. I'm always copying web text to put into emails or documents. Before finding this app, I had to copy and put into notepad and recopy from notepad to be able to have unformatted text. This makes the process so much more simple. It works. Thanks

Daniel de Lux - 2023-05-26

USELESS

Daniel de Lux - 2023-05-26

USELESS

ALEX R M 2023-05-11

nada demais

Ivan Monells 2023-05-11

It would help a lot to have an option to keep line breaks

Ivan Monells 2023-05-11

It would help a lot to have an option to keep line breaks

Kevin 2023-04-14

I used this a lot! Glad it exists.

Kevin 2023-04-14

I used this a lot! Glad it exists.

Porter Stone 2023-01-05

Worked the way is supposed too

Porter Stone 2023-01-05

Worked the way is supposed too

Mark French 2022-10-29

Does exactly what so many of us need Kudos

Mark French 2022-10-29

Does exactly what so many of us need Kudos

Abdulrahman Mansour 2022-09-08

Not bad, it's good!

Abdulrahman Mansour 2022-09-08

Not bad, it's good!

Kristopher Heimerl 2022-07-30

Works great with truncated and easy weirdly formatted text. I wish they would make it possible map to a key or action.

Kristopher Heimerl 2022-07-30

Works great with truncated and easy weirdly formatted text. I wish they would make it possible map to a key or action.

Mihovil Lovric 2022-07-26

A very good extension. Resolves lots of headaches I had before.

Mihovil Lovric 2022-07-26

A very good extension. Resolves lots of headaches I had before.

Terry Zhang 2022-07-03

This is a very useful extension. Many Thanks. As some websites block the right click menu, so is there any possibility adding a menu item that we can copy plain text when we click the icon on the tool bar? The original Copy As Plain Text is Open the website.

Terry Zhang 2022-07-03

This is a very useful extension. Many Thanks. As some websites block the right click menu, so is there any possibility adding a menu item that we can copy plain text when we click the icon on the tool bar? The original Copy As Plain Text is Open the website.

Valerian Jelauc 2022-06-09

You need to click many times to "Copy" action to actually copy the text...

Valerian Jelauc 2022-06-09

You need to click many times to "Copy" action to actually copy the text...

Erwan F. 2022-02-15

Sur Chrome dernière version au moment où j'ai testé cette extension, elle ne fonctionnait pas ou pas immédiatement ; il me fallait parfois répéter plusieurs fois la copie pour qu'enfin je puisse copier un texte brut. Et parfois, ça ne voulait pas marcher du tout. Je passe donc à une autre extension plus fiable.

Григорий Врачёв 2021-11-22

Не сохраняет переводы строк

Ivan Trbulin 2021-11-05

It's not working anymore lmao

Ivan Trbulin 2021-11-05

It's not working anymore lmao

Ewen Wallace (CAD bloke) 2021-10-25

Should be built into Chrome but isn't so THANKS

Ewen Wallace (CAD bloke) 2021-10-25

Should be built into Chrome but isn't so THANKS

Sajith N 2021-10-12

It would be great to display it as a pop up menu (like a tool tip) on selecting the desired text, just like the default feature of the Opera browser.

Sajith N 2021-10-12

It would be great to display it as a pop up menu (like a tool tip) on selecting the desired text, just like the default feature of the Opera browser.

Tom Miewald 2021-08-16

it's simple and easy. A shortcut option would make this 11 stars

Statistics

Installs
30,000
Market
Chrome Web Store
Category
Rating
4.12 (48 votes)
Last update
2025-07-22
Version 0.1.5
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