AI · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Screenshot Text
Copy and paste text from youtube videos
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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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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Download Copyfish for Firefox. Do you need to extract text from images, videos or PDF? If yes, then the Copyfish free OCR software is for you. Until now, your only option was to retype the text. Copyfish is so much faster and more fun. It can do desktop screenshots and OCR, too.
2017 · addons.mozilla.org · its alternatives →
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Effortless image to text conversion for Mac
2024 · getsnipit.com · its alternatives →
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Paste 4.0▲650The most convenient way to copy and paste on iPhone and iPad
2023 · pasteapp.io · its alternatives →
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Scan and extract text from images on iPhone, iPad & Mac
2024 · apps.apple.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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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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Capture, translate, and understand any text on your Mac
Aug 2026 · appunbound.com · its alternatives →
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Capso▲269Free open-source screenshot & screen recorder for Mac
Apr 2026 · awesomemacapp.com · 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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Clipboard manager in your macOS menu bar
2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Smarter copy-paste for macOS. New version!
Mar 2026 · cuatro.studio · its alternatives →
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Make anything selectable
May 2026 · selectable.so · its alternatives →
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Magic Copy▲169Magically share text & links across your devices ✨
2018 · magiccopy.app · its alternatives →
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GetIpsum▲79Menu bar placeholder text generator for digital creatives
2021 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Copaste▲83Copy paste text globally on your Mac without switching apps.
2021 · meteor-macaw-c12.notion.site · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, As a Software Engineer, I frequently copy and paste content. The fact that macOS clipboard buffer can keep only one item is very frustrating. It’s very annoying to copy → switch app → paste → switch app → copy → switch app → paste, and so on. Losing items I copied hours ago and having to find and copy them again is a waste of time. I tried many third-party clipboard managers like Alfred, Raycast, Paste, Maccy, etc. While great, they didn't fully meet my needs. As a developer, my requirements are: 1. Keyboard-centric operation to avoid using the mouse. I don’t want to waste my time…
2024 · clipbook.app · its alternatives →
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Tidy▲98Spotlight returns nothing for words you know are in a scanned document. It is not a bug: a scan has no text layer, so there is nothing to index. How to check, and three ways to make those documents searchable on a Mac.
Jul 2026 · tidymacapp.com · its alternatives →
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TextSnatcher▲64How to copy text from images, answer is TextSnatcher
2022 · textsnatcher.rf.gd · its alternatives →
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Instant OCR, Clipboard History
2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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