TextGrab
Instant screen-to-text for macOS
Details
- External ID
- 1250909
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- TextGrab
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 15, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.30815693820825313
- Tags
- Productivity, GitHub, Menu Bar Apps
- Fetched at
- Sept. 16, 2026, 1:16 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 16, 2026, 1:16 a.m.
Description
TextGrab is a native macOS OCR utility that turns anything on your screen into editable text. Press a shortcut, select a region, and instantly copy the extracted text to your clipboard. Built with Swift, SwiftUI, Vision, and ScreenCaptureKit, TextGrab supports Text, Code & Table modes, multi-monitor setups, clipboard history, and local OCR processing. It’s fast, privacy-focused, and open source — built as a simple alternative to cloud-based OCR tools.
Enrichment
- Theme
- desktop and macOS productivity utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Workflow automation
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- screen-to-text ocr utility for macos
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes The app directly wraps native Apple platform APIs (ScreenCaptureKit for region selection and Vision for OCR) inside a lightweight SwiftUI menu bar app.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 301 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #162 of 302 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 293 days after the earliest competitor.
- CopyLasso, a free local screen OCR app for macOS · hn · 2026-08-19 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.67
- ScreenshotPlus · ph · 2026-09-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- Simple Screenshot Copy · hn · 2026-08-20 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Assist · ph · 2026-09-07 · 128 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Pastely · ph · 2026-09-22 · 59 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Capso · ph · 2026-04-11 · 268 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Text Scanner: Image to Text · ph · 2026-09-26 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- copywheel · github · 2026-09-09 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.50
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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