ScreenshotPlus
Free native macOS menu bar screenshot tool
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Lightweight native macOS menu bar app for screenshots. Capture any area with a global shortcut (⌘⇧X), then copy, save, annotate, extract text (OCR), or turn it into a QR code — without leaving your workflow. Built 100% in Swift/SwiftUI, zero dependencies. Free and open source (MIT). - No Dock icon - Draw shapes/arrows/text on captures - Native OCR via Apple's Vision framework - QR code generation - Optional launch at login
PH · launched Sep 18, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 69%) · 0 views
Niche: screenshot capture and mockup tools · 215 launches, 16 in the last 7 days ▼ -24% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Mac
- GitHub
- Menu Bar Apps
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More like this: all 215 launches in screenshot capture and mockup tools →
Could you build this?
Yes It is a native macOS menu bar utility using built-in system APIs (ScreenCaptureKit, Vision framework for OCR, CoreImage for QR codes), easily created via standard SwiftUI vibe coding.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 833 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #666 of 834 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 324 days after the earliest competitor.
- TextGrab · ph · 2026-09-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- recast · github · 2026-10-23 · 20 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- CaptureOCR｜Offline OCR Screenshot Tool · ph · 2026-10-25 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- Capso · ph · 2026-04-11 · 268 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- Daisyshot · ph · 2026-11-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- screenshot-renamer · github · 2026-09-24 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- CopyLasso, a free local screen OCR app for macOS · hn · 2026-08-19 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- StableBar · ph · 2026-11-11 · 84 upvotes · similarity 0.57
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