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TextGrab

Instant screen-to-text for macOS

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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.

PH · launched Sep 15, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 69%) · 0 views

Niche: macos system utilities · 448 launches, 31 in the last 7 days ▼ -30% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • Workflow automation
  • Prosumer
  • AI feature
  • Commercial product
  • Productivity
  • GitHub
  • Menu Bar Apps

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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 : 728 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #608 of 729 (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 0.66
  • ScreenshotPlus · ph · 2026-09-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.63
  • PixelScan · ph · 2026-10-21 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.62
  • Letra · ph · 2026-10-10 · 66 upvotes · similarity 0.62
  • Textly · ph · 2026-11-08 · 88 upvotes · similarity 0.58
  • Buffer · ph · 2026-10-10 · 72 upvotes · similarity 0.55
  • SnipText · ph · 2026-11-09 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.55
  • SnapToText · ph · 2026-10-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.55

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