Copy As Plain Text

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

Latest reviews

• (2025-06-29) Polonius Byke: Works perfectly. Does not ask for unnecessary permissions. Thank you for making a quality extension!
• (2025-06-21) Crystal Identity: 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.
• (2024-10-16) Meynard Mojello: Works on some text but not PDFs with different formats ( designed with Canva specifically).
• (2024-09-29) Dan Nichols: Needs shortcut key, right click function is an extra steps and mouse motion
• (2024-06-25) Stanton McCandlish: 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.
• (2024-05-06) Muneeb Ahmad: extension is so good
• (2024-05-06) Muneeb Ahmad: extension is so good
• (2024-02-27) Harris Joe: helpful! But I need a keyboard shortcut
• (2024-02-27) Harris Joe: helpful! But I need a keyboard shortcut
• (2024-02-21) Agnieszka: helpful
• (2024-02-21) Agnieszka: helpful
• (2024-02-13) Eitan Caspi: 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.
• (2024-01-22) Isaac Alvarado: It works when it feels like working. Half the time it works, half the time it fails. It's never consistent.
• (2024-01-02) Saliim Mohammed: working as expected.
• (2023-12-14) Maya Posch: 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.
• (2023-08-15) Rainboweek: Helping sooo much
• (2023-08-15) Rainboweek: Helping sooo much
• (2023-06-25) Brenda Posh: 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
• (2023-06-25) Brenda Posh: 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
• (2023-05-26) Daniel de Lux -: USELESS
• (2023-05-26) Daniel de Lux -: USELESS
• (2023-05-11) ALEX R M: nada demais
• (2023-05-11) Ivan Monells: It would help a lot to have an option to keep line breaks
• (2023-05-11) Ivan Monells: It would help a lot to have an option to keep line breaks
• (2023-04-14) Kevin: I used this a lot! Glad it exists.
• (2023-04-14) Kevin: I used this a lot! Glad it exists.
• (2023-01-05) Porter Stone: Worked the way is supposed too
• (2023-01-05) Porter Stone: Worked the way is supposed too
• (2022-10-29) Mark French: Does exactly what so many of us need Kudos
• (2022-10-29) Mark French: Does exactly what so many of us need Kudos
• (2022-09-08) Abdulrahman Mansour: Not bad, it's good!
• (2022-09-08) Abdulrahman Mansour: Not bad, it's good!
• (2022-07-30) Kristopher Heimerl: Works great with truncated and easy weirdly formatted text. I wish they would make it possible map to a key or action.
• (2022-07-30) Kristopher Heimerl: Works great with truncated and easy weirdly formatted text. I wish they would make it possible map to a key or action.
• (2022-07-26) Mihovil Lovric: A very good extension. Resolves lots of headaches I had before.
• (2022-07-26) Mihovil Lovric: A very good extension. Resolves lots of headaches I had before.
• (2022-07-03) Terry Zhang: 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.
• (2022-07-03) Terry Zhang: 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.
• (2022-06-09) Valerian Jelauc: You need to click many times to "Copy" action to actually copy the text...
• (2022-06-09) Valerian Jelauc: You need to click many times to "Copy" action to actually copy the text...
• (2022-02-15) Erwan F.: 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.
• (2021-11-22) Григорий Врачёв: Не сохраняет переводы строк
• (2021-11-05) Ivan Trbulin: It's not working anymore lmao
• (2021-11-05) Ivan Trbulin: It's not working anymore lmao
• (2021-10-25) Ewen Wallace (CAD bloke): Should be built into Chrome but isn't so THANKS
• (2021-10-25) Ewen Wallace (CAD bloke): Should be built into Chrome but isn't so THANKS
• (2021-10-12) Sajith N: 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.
• (2021-10-12) Sajith N: 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.
• (2021-08-16) Tom Miewald: it's simple and easy. A shortcut option would make this 11 stars
• (2021-08-16) Tom Miewald: it's simple and easy. A shortcut option would make this 11 stars