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AI for text you can't even select. Any app on Mac & Windows
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AI in every app, on Mac and Windows. Ubuntu next. Select text, press one shortcut, and the result lands where your cursor is. Rewrite keeps your tone and follows your instructions. Explain and Translate go as deep as you ask. Alternatives shows several ways to say it. Saved prompts run on anything you select and follow your account to every machine. Can't select it? Hold Option or Alt and drag over a PDF, screenshot, or shared screen. Read on your device. Free plan is enough for most people.
PH · launched Sep 22, 2026 · 82 upvotes (top 2%) · 0 views
Niche: desktop ai assistants · 274 launches, 16 in the last 7 days ▼ -20% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Agent / copilot
- Prosumer
- AI-native
- Commercial product
- Productivity
- Writing
- Artificial Intelligence
- YouTube
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Could you build this?
Partial The LLM prompt orchestration is straightforward, but reading unselectable text across any app requires low-level OS accessibility APIs or fast local screen capture OCR with global keyboard hooks.
What it would actually take: A native desktop app (Rust with Tauri/Wry or Swift/C#) is needed to monitor global system hotkeys, capture screen regions around the cursor or active window, run local OCR (e.g. Apple Vision framework, Windows OCR, or Tesseract), send extracted text to an LLM API, and synthesize keystrokes/clipboard events to paste the result back. The hard part is cross-platform OS-level permissions, robust screen OCR targeting the exact focused element, and reliable simulated typing/pasting across sandboxed applications.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 459 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #24 of 460 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 320 days after the earliest competitor.
- Translate Like Me · ph · 2026-10-04 · 62 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Repluma · ph · 2026-10-21 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- TypeKey · ph · 2026-10-18 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Pasteparrot · ph · 2026-10-13 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- AI Reply · ph · 2026-09-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- EditText.ai · ph · 2026-10-27 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Humanizer · ph · 2026-11-03 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Anki Capture · ph · 2026-10-22 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
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