Textracto
fzf for your screen (macOS)
Details
- External ID
- 49181114
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Textracto
- Website domain
- textracto.app
- Launched
- Aug. 5, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 6
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.3125
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- macOS and desktop customization tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- fuzzy finder for screen content on macos
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial Building a basic macOS menu-bar app is feasible, but real-time screen OCR, bounding box text detection, coordinate mapping, and fuzzy selection across arbitrary desktop applications require deep native macOS Cocoa and Vision framework integration.
What it would actually take: A native Swift/macOS application utilizing CGWindowListCreateImage/ScreenCaptureKit for continuous screen capture, Apple's Vision framework (VNRecognizeTextRequest) for on-device OCR, and a custom fuzzy-search selection overlay. The hard part is achieving sub-millisecond, glitch-free overlay rendering across multi-monitor setups without draining battery or triggering security permissions bottlenecks.
Discussion
1 comment analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: extrakto (terminal text extraction), macOS native accessibility features
Concerns raised: Closed source rather than open source, Requires Screen Recording and Accessibility permissions, Limited free uses (250) before purchase reminder
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 299 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #212 of 300 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 278 days after the earliest competitor.
- I made text selection on macOS programmable · hn · 2026-09-03 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- TextGrab · ph · 2026-09-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- A Website to Display and Share Text in Large Font on Any Screen · hn · 2025-11-28 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Zhenzhu · hn · 2026-09-16 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- ellipsis · github · 2026-09-17 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- FZeroRecomp · github · 2026-09-11 · 19 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- MacLayout · hn · 2026-03-25 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- ScreenshotPlus · ph · 2026-09-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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