Textly
Capture Text & Tables from Anywhere on Your Mac
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Stop retyping text and rebuilding tables. Textly lets you instantly capture text from anywhere on your Mac — even when you can't select or copy it. Extract tables from screenshots, PDFs, videos, and apps while keeping rows and columns intact. Export to CSV, Markdown, or TSV, translate text instantly, and revisit previous captures with clipboard history. Just select an area, capture, and get back to what matters.
PH · launched Nov 8, 2026 · 88 upvotes (top 1%) · 0 views
Niche: document processing and ocr software · 202 launches, 16 in the last 7 days ▼ -27% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Workflow automation
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Mac
- Productivity
- Menu Bar Apps
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More like this: all 202 launches in document processing and ocr software →
Could you build this?
Yes A macOS utility that captures text via OCR and exports tables to CSV, Markdown, or TSV is buildable with Apple's Vision framework and an LLM or table-extraction model. The Mac app itself is a standard SwiftUI project.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 767 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #10 of 768 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 311 days after the earliest competitor.
- TextGrab · ph · 2026-09-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- PixelScan · ph · 2026-10-21 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- Pastely · ph · 2026-09-22 · 59 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Exhibitly · ph · 2026-10-27 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Copy Text from Image · ph · 2026-10-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Textlift · ph · 2026-09-11 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- SnipText · ph · 2026-11-09 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Letra · ph · 2026-10-10 · 66 upvotes · similarity 0.52
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