Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Pastemagic - paste with desired formatting, fix linebreaks, instant OCR
Fixes your paste problems with text -- paste without formatting, remove line breaks from paragraphs, and even convert images to text (OCR). 100% free.
Pastemagic is a free web tool that solves common pasting problems by removing unwanted formatting, eliminating line breaks from paragraphs, and converting images to text through OCR. It helps researchers, writers, and… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Pastemagic - paste with desired formatting, fix linebreaks, instant OCR launched in 2018; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Show your work. Paste is a new presentation tool for Slack.
2017 · 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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Shop for Office Paper Clamps in Office Products
2014 · tinyrobotsoftware.com · its alternatives →
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With Pastel you can comment and edit text on any website making website feedback fast and clear.
2020 · usepastel.com · its alternatives →
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Paste without losing links, lists, or paragraph breaks.
Jul 2026 · paste-formatter.app · its alternatives →
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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…
Jan 2026 · custompaste.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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DevComrade - A copy/paste/run productivity improvement utility for developers - postprintum/devcomrade
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I just realized you can now open a PDF document in Firefox and select text directly from scanned images embedded in the document (so basically transparently reliable doing OCR). It is also surprisingly reliable, only sometimes mistaking a "oh" for a "zero" in a long string of numbers. I neither know when this was introduced nor who added this feature, but from the bottom of my heart: thank you, thank you, thank you, you have made my daily life a lot easier. I also haven't really explored the limits of the feature and under what conditions it starts failing, but: in my daily workflow so far,…
2024 · its alternatives →
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Pastes.io▲57Simple and Efficient pastebin for mainly code save.
2023 · pastes.io · its alternatives →
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I built a small desktop tool called PasteClean to solve a personal annoyance: sharing URLs filled with tracking garbage (utm_source, fbclid, etc.). It runs in the background and automatically cleans URLs in your clipboard when you copy them. It handles 50+ tracking parameters and can also unshorten links (bit.ly, t.co) to reveal the destination and clean them before pasting. Tech stack is Electron/React/TypeScript. The core privacy features are free. I added a "Pro" lifetime license for some advanced features (unshortening, batch mode) to support development.
Dec 2025 · iixotic.github.io · its alternatives →
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Share code, text, markdown & images instantly
2025 · onlinepaste.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I built PasteClean, a small, free, client-side tool to fix a problem I kept running into when pasting ChatGPT output into Outlook and other email clients. When you paste AI-generated text into Outlook, bullet points and paragraphs often end up with extra spacing. This happens because of how lists and paragraphs are represented in HTML and how Outlook renders them. PasteClean lets you: - Paste content from ChatGPT/Claude/Gemini/Perplexity (or anywhere) - Optionally edit it - Clean up spacing, lists, and formatting - Copy the result as cleaned HTML Everything runs…
Jan 2026 · pasteclean.app · its alternatives →
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Fix messy layout formatting from PDF copy-pastes
Jun 2026 · textsanitizer.online · its alternatives →
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2013 · paste.pm · its alternatives →
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It’s been one month since I launched CopyMagic, a smarter clipboard manager for macOS that makes sure you never lose anything you copy. Instead of digging through endless items, you can type things like “URL from Slack”, “flight information”, or “crypto rate” and it instantly finds what you meant. It’s all completely offline and privacy-first (we don’t even track analytics).
2025 · copymagic.app · its alternatives →
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Pastebin.com is the number one paste tool since 2002. Pastebin is a website where you can store text online for a set period of time.
2013 · pastebin.com · its alternatives →
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Ortu▲12The clipboard manager for people who copy-paste for a living
Jul 2026 · ortu.abhijithpsubash.com · its alternatives →
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Notepad for AI watermark text cleaning and formatting
2025 · notepadllm.com · its alternatives →
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