Copy twice.
Paste plain.
CleanBoard for macOS and Windows sits in your menu bar or system tray and strips the fonts, colours and hidden characters out of whatever you just copied. Press copy a second time and the clipboard rewrites itself.
Q3 Marketing Review
The team’s “north star” metric grew 12 % this quarter — driven almost entirely by the new onboarding flow we shipped in August.
Plain text lands here.
On Windows, that’s Ctrl + C twice. The button is here to show what happens - in the app itself there is nothing to click, you just press the shortcut.
Free for your first 5,000 characters. $4.99 after that, once.
What comes off
The words survive. Everything the source app wrapped around them does not.
- Fonts, sizes and weightsAnnual summaryAnnual summary
- Colours and highlightsOverdue — review by FridayOverdue - review by Friday
- Bold, italic and underlineDo not skip the migration stepDo not skip the migration step
- Links and the URLs behind themSee the changelog for detailsSee the changelog for details
- Curly quotes and long dashes“It’s fine,” she said — eventually…"It's fine," she said - eventually...
- Characters you cannot seeTotalcostper seatTotal cost per seat
Three keystrokes you already know
- 1
Copy as usual
Select the text anywhere and press copy. Nothing about your habits changes.
- 2
Press copy again
A second press within a moment is the signal. CleanBoard rewrites what is on the clipboard.
- 3
Paste
Plain text lands in whatever you are writing in. No special paste shortcut to remember.
Nothing leaves your computer
All of the processing happens on your own machine. Your clipboard content never travels anywhere, and CleanBoard keeps to the menu bar and the system tray, counting the characters it has cleaned so you can see what you have used.
$4.99 once, and it keeps working
The first 5,000 characters are free, so you can find out whether you reach for it before you pay for it. There is no subscription.
Or install with Homebrew
Two lines, if that is already how you install things on macOS.
$ brew tap tompodab/cleanboard $ brew install --cask cleanboard
No Homebrew yet? Get it from brew.sh.