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24 alternatives to I built a clipboard tool to strip/keep specific formatting like Italics
Hello HN, I’m Joseph, a solo developer. I built CustomPaste because I was frustrated by the binary choice standard clipboard tools give us: either keep all the messy formatting (background colors, huge fonts) or strip everything down to plain text. We all know Ctrl+Shift+V (paste as plain text), but that is often too destructive, it kills hyperlinks, bolding, and lists when I usually just want to normalize the font family (e.g., force Arial 11pt) or remove background colors. I wanted a tool that let me "strip exactly what I want, and keep exactly what I want." The Solution: Instead of a…
CustomPaste is a clipboard tool that lets users selectively strip or preserve specific text formatting when pasting. Rather than choosing between keeping all formatting or converting to plain text, it allows creation… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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My partner usually writes substack posts which I then mirror to our website’s blog section. To automate this, I made a simple tool to scrape the post and clean it so that I can drop it to our blog easily. This might be useful to others as well. Oh and ofcourse you can instruct GPT to make any final edits :D
2024 · markdowndown.vercel.app · its alternatives →
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Purifai▲217App-aware copy/paste that removes unsupported formatting
Jan 2026 · purifai.app · its alternatives →
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Keep a library of saved text, paste it in a keystroke
Feb 2026 · usepastey.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, As a Software Engineer, I frequently copy and paste content. The fact that macOS clipboard buffer can keep only one item is very frustrating. It’s very annoying to copy → switch app → paste → switch app → copy → switch app → paste, and so on. Losing items I copied hours ago and having to find and copy them again is a waste of time. I tried many third-party clipboard managers like Alfred, Raycast, Paste, Maccy, etc. While great, they didn't fully meet my needs. As a developer, my requirements are: 1. Keyboard-centric operation to avoid using the mouse. I don’t want to waste my time…
2024 · clipbook.app · its alternatives →
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GetIpsum▲79Menu bar placeholder text generator for digital creatives
2021 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Clipboard Canvas▲137Clipboard Canvas is a free clipboard manager that helps designers and developers organize and access their clipboard content efficiently. Features text snippets, code snippets, and clipboard history.
2024 · clipboardcanvas.com · its alternatives →
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We are longtime members of HN and this is our only submission requesting feedback from the HN community on our product, Clipboard which we have been developing for the past year. Clipboard is a service to save anything online using a bookmarklet or browser extension (think Dropbox for content on the web). Clipboard is built using open source technologies, including Riak, Redis, NGINX, Node.js, and jQuery. One of our core differentiators is how we preserve the visual look and functionality of the original source, which is evident in the sample clips from github here:…
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ClipboardAI▲122Instantly run AI prompts with shortcuts, anywhere.
Nov 2025 · schriftly.app · its alternatives →
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Automatically removes formatting from your MacOS clipboard
2023 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Cliptop▲112Hi HN, I built Cliptop, a clipboard history app for macOS. Yes, it is another clipboard manager. I built it because I wanted one that felt fast from the keyboard, stayed local, handled more than plain text, and did not make me think too much about sensitive clipboard items. The main things I focused on: * Keyboard-first search and paste * Local clipboard history for text, links, code, images, files, colors, and design layers (e.g. Figma) * Quick actions like paste as plain text, color format conversion, image crop, background removal, and Markdown conversion * Pinboards for saving items and…
Jun 2026 · cliptop.app · its alternatives →
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Generate 180+ copy-and-paste fonts for Instagram, TikTok, Discord, bios, names, and messages. Free fancy text generator with cool, cute, bold, cursive, and symbol styles.
2025 · fontgenerator.cool · its alternatives →
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Smarter copy-paste for macOS. New version!
Mar 2026 · cuatro.studio · its alternatives →
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TransLite▲98Hello ! David from Spain here :) I built TransLite because I was tired of breaking my flow every time I needed to translate something before sending it. The usual workflow was: copy → open a browser tab → paste → translate → copy again → paste back. I've created a small macOS menubar app that lets you translate the current clipboard instantly using a keyboard shortcut, in any app. It works locally and supports using your own OpenAI / Claude API key. It’s intentionally simple — no accounts, no tracking, no subscriptions. Happy to answer any questions. Best regards, David
Feb 2026 · translite.app · its alternatives →
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Clean & format text – get this extension for 🦊 firefox
2025 · addons.mozilla.org · its alternatives →
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DevComrade - A copy/paste/run productivity improvement utility for developers - postprintum/devcomrade
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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To me it always felt like clipboard history was one of the few things missing from macOS. There are already some excellent clipboard managers available, but after trying quite a few of them I kept coming back to the same goal: I wanted something that felt like it belonged on macOS. Fast, keyboard-first, private, and visually restrained. One thing I felt strongly about from the beginning was that it had to be open source. Clipboard managers have access to some of the most sensitive data we copy — passwords, API keys, personal information, financial details — and for something that sits in the…
Jun 2026 · hyperpaste.io · its alternatives →
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Notepad for AI watermark text cleaning and formatting
2025 · notepadllm.com · its alternatives →
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A copy-and-paste extension that perfectly preserves formats
2025 · copywithformat.com · its alternatives →
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