CleanPaste – AI and Web Text Cleaner

About

Paste clean. Every time.

CleanPaste removes unwanted formatting from AI-generated and web text before you paste it into Word, Google Docs, email, Notion, CMS editors, or anywhere else formatting gets in the way.

Whether you're copying from ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, webpages, emails, or PDFs, CleanPaste delivers clean, plain, consistent text — instantly.

✨ Key Features:
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🧼 Clean AI & web formatting automatically

Removes the formatting you don’t want:

- list bullets & numbering (• – — 1. 1) etc.)

- emojis, checkboxes & decorative icons

- indentation & inconsistent padding

- extra spaces & tab characters

- curly (“smart”) quotes

- multiple blank lines

- hidden characters & non-breaking spaces

Optimised specifically for text copied from ChatGPT and other AI assistants.
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⚡ Clean & Copy in one click

Paste → Clean & Copy → paste anywhere with perfect plain text.

Fast, consistent, and reliable.
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🖱 Right-click cleaning on any webpage

Select text → right-click →
CleanPaste: Clean & copy selection

The cleaned text is placed directly into your clipboard.
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🎚 Fully customisable cleaning rules

Choose exactly how CleanPaste behaves:

- Normalize whitespace

- Normalize quotes

- Collapse blank lines

- Remove bullets

- Remove indentation

- Remove emojis & icons

- Your preferences are saved automatically.
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🔳 High-contrast accessibility mode

Switch to a black-and-white theme designed for readability and visual comfort.

Works for both:

- Popup UI

- Options page

Theme choice syncs automatically.
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🧁 Toast notifications

CleanPaste uses subtle, unobtrusive toast animations for:

- cleaning success

- copy success

- options saved

- theme toggled

No clutter, no intrusive UI.
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🔒 100% Private & Offline

CleanPaste does not collect, store, transmit, or share any data.

All text cleaning happens locally on your device, even when using the right-click context menu.

No analytics.
No tracking.
No network requests.
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🧩 Perfect for...

- Copying from ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot

- Writers & editors

- Students & academics

- Professionals working with documents

- Research (AI text into Word)

- Developers writing documentation

- Clean plain-text workflows
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🔧 Permissions explained

CleanPaste uses the minimum required permissions:

- clipboardWrite — to place cleaned text into your clipboard

- contextMenus — to add the right-click “CleanPaste selection” option

- activeTab + scripting — to clean text only when you trigger the context menu

- storage — to save your cleaning preferences and theme mode

CleanPaste never touches anything else.
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🆕 What’s new in v1.0.0

New visual identity & CleanPaste branding

- Popup UI redesign

- Options page redesign

- High-contrast accessibility mode

- New toast feedback system

- New emoji & icon stripping engine

- Improved bullet/indent cleanup

- Right-click clean & copy

- Persistent settings sync

- Updated copy engine for reliability