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24 alternatives to I released an open-source Mac app to copy any text on the screen
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. I released an open-source Mac app to copy any text on the screen launched in 2022; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Get any text on your screen into your clipboard. Contribute to schappim/macOCR development by creating an account on GitHub.
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Paragraph Notes▲155A private Markdown notes app for Mac
Sep 2026 · paragraphnotes.md · its alternatives →
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Copyclip▲108Simple, efficient clipboard manager for your Mac
2015 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Your replies ready with your work's full context
Sep 2026 · usechalked.com · its alternatives →
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Copied▲162Instant Text Access, Easy Copy-Paste, and Organized Snippets
2024 · copiedpro.com · its alternatives →
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Captured▲103Upload Mac screenshots anywhere, immediately paste URL
2014 · capturedapp.com · its alternatives →
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Effortless image to text conversion for Mac
2024 · getsnipit.com · its alternatives →
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2024 · screenvivid.com · its alternatives →
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Any suggestion is welcomed and appreciated!
2023 · notepad-release.web.app · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I made CopyLasso for text you can see but can't select: things like scanned PDFs, text in videos, and text in screenshots. I was surprised to find only a few solutions for this that were all paid, so I made a free and open source version. CopyLasso is a native Swift app built with ScreenCaptureKit and Apple Vision. It's MIT-licensed, signed, and notarized. To use it, just press your keybind and draw a bounding box around the text you want to copy. The text is recognized locally and copied to your clipboard. Other features include copying QR codes and barcodes, multi-language…
Aug 2026 · copylasso.com · its alternatives →
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Copy and paste text from youtube videos
Jun 2026 · screenshottext.com · its alternatives →
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1. Click capture text 2. Select an area on screen with text 3. Paste the text anywhere Are there other solutions out there? Yes, the best one that I've found is Text Sniper, it $8 so I decided to learn SwiftUI and release Text Capture for $0.99. This one uses MacOS builtin Vision API under the hood so it should also improve with new macOS releases. Would love to hear your feedback!
2024 · textcapture.app · its alternatives →
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A flexible cross-platform note-taking application
2017 · collatenotes.com · its alternatives →
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Copy any text on your Mac—instantly
Jul 2026 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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