Format Cleaner Chrome extension icon

Format Cleaner

✨ AI-Powered
👥 2 users
📦 v1.0
💾 562KiB
📅 2025-08-29
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Overview

Clean up messy formatted text effortlessly! Format Cleaner gives you precise control over what formatting gets removed when you copy text from websites.

### 🎯 Perfect for:
- **Students & Researchers** - Copy clean text for papers and assignments
- **Content Creators** - Get plain text without losing time on cleanup
- **Professionals** - Paste formatted content into documents seamlessly
- **Developers** - Copy code examples without unwanted styling

### ✨ Key Features:

**Smart Copy Detection**
- Works with both manual copying (Ctrl+C) and website copy buttons
- Automatically detects ChatGPT, documentation sites, and code editors
- Save custom copy buttons for sites we don't detect automatically

**Granular Control**
- Remove colors and backgrounds (perfect for ChatGPT responses)
- Strip bold, italic, and underline formatting
- Convert lists to plain text
- Remove custom fonts and font sizes
- Convert links to plain text
- Or go full plain text mode

**Site-Specific Settings**
- Different formatting rules for each website
- Set ChatGPT to remove colors, keep code formatting elsewhere
- Global settings with per-site overrides

**Instant Presets**
- **"Remove Colors"** - Perfect for ChatGPT and AI responses
- **"Plain Text"** - Complete formatting removal
- **Quick toggles** - Click active preset to turn it off

### 🚀 How It Works:

1. **Install & Configure** - Choose your formatting preferences
2. **Copy Anywhere** - Use Ctrl+C or click copy buttons as normal
3. **Clean Results** - Paste perfectly formatted text every time

No more:
- ❌ Weird colors from ChatGPT responses
- ❌ Unwanted fonts breaking your document style
- ❌ Manual cleanup of copied content
- ❌ Inconsistent formatting in your work

### 🛡️ Privacy & Security:
- **No data collection** - Everything stays on your device
- **No external connections** - Works completely offline
- **Open source** - Transparent and trustworthy
- **Minimal permissions** - Only accesses clipboard when you copy

### 💡 Pro Tips:
- Right-click any copy button and select "Save as Copy Button" for custom site support
- Use site-specific settings to have different rules for different websites
- The extension indicator shows exactly what formatting was removed
- Quick preset buttons work as toggles - click again to turn off

**Transform your copy-paste workflow today!**

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*Supports all Chromium browsers: Chrome, Edge, Brave, Opera, and more.*

Tags

Productivity/tools productivity/tools

Privacy Practices

Not being sold to third parties, outside of the approved use cases
Not being used or transferred for purposes that are unrelated to the item's core functionality
Not being used or transferred to determine creditworthiness or for lending purposes

🔐 Security Analysis

This extension hasn't been security-scanned yet.

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