Plain Text Android

Plain Text

Remove fonts and formatting from clipboard text

Overview

Removed
Downloads
10,525
Data as of 2026-04-28
Rating:
3.82
(59)
Version:
1.5.3
Last updated: 2023-08-27

Features & Capabilities

This app allows you to quickly easily remove any font and formatting information from text on the clipboard, leaving it as plain text. This can useful if you are copying formatted text into emails or other documents.

Just copy the formatted text onto the clipboard, then start the app and tap the Remove Formatting button. Thats all there is to it. A widget is also provided - just drag it onto the home screen and tap it to remove formatting from the clipboard text.

The inspiration for this app was Steve Miller's Pure Text utility for WIndows (http://stevemiller.net/puretext/).

This app is licenced under the MIT licence. Source code and licence information is available at https://github.com/andyjohnson0/PlainText.

User Growth & Download Statistics

App
By:
Andrew B Johnson
Downloads:
10,525
Rating:
3.82
(59)
Version:
1.5.3 Last updated: 2023-08-27
Version code:
9
Creation date:
2015-10-05
Publisher country:
GB GB
Size:
7.42MB
Email:
an*****@gmail.com
URLs:
Website ,Privacy policy
Full description:
See detailed description
Source:
Google Play Store
Data ingested on:
2026-04-28
Compare stats and ranking:

Contact the developer

Chrome-Stats does not own this Android app. Please use these information below to contact the Android app developer.
Developed by:
Andrew B Johnson
Google Play Store
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=uk.andyjohnson0.PlainText
Email:
an*****@gmail.com
Website:
http://andyjohnson.uk

User Reviews

Most users find Plain Text useful, reliably removing clipboard formatting with simple, one-tap actions and a compact widget. It does exactly what it promises and is lightweight, aiding fast pasting into apps like Gmail. A minority report it as nonfunctional. The main takeaways are solid basic functionality, widget convenience, and requests for paste-without-format or additional context-menu options.
Pros
  • Does exactly what it says / supposed to do.
  • Saves time and space by removing clipboard formatting.
  • Lightweight, reliable, and useful.
  • The widget provides quick, one-tap formatting removal.
  • Strips formatting from clipboard for easy pasting into apps like Gmail.
Cons
  • Some reviews report the app is nonfunctional or unusable; it does not work for those users.
Recent reviews
Thank you! I'd love a context menu option to make it even easier.
by An*****, 2024-09-25

Doesn't allow the user to do anything. Whoever made this is an idiot
by Je*****, 2022-08-03
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